Side topic, I think the question "give me an example of when you resolved a difficult challenge at work" and the like is the most bullshit part of job interview

Side topic, I think the question "give me an example of when you resolved a difficult challenge at work" and the like is the most bullshit part of job interviews. Only for boring jobs. For interesting jobs, such questions offer the interviewer a chance to assess the candidate's sense of perspective (low level, architectural, maintenance, operations, security, efficiency, management bottom line, etc.), reason (often mutually conflicting cross-domain priorities), articulation, honesty/openness, reflectiveness (re. benefit-of-hindsight), and so forth. And as such, this type of open question allowing one to draw from past challenges should be a gem for a good candidate in the right context. Source: Used it this week.