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by vonmoltke 3518 days ago
Without probing questions, no. On technical matters and some interpersonal matters, though, you can use a variation of 5 Whys to quickly drill down on certain decisions or details. The only way to pass that is to actually know what you are talking about.
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Exactly. Memorize the incident, what you want to convey about it, and how to emphasise your angle on it. Don't rote-learn a single telling, and don't blow it off and think "ok I'd talk about that time I saved the orphans, next!"so that in the interview you're all "I was on my way back from preventing a bank robbery...wait no, it was a mugging...and i went past the orphanage on 5th Ave, or 6th, you know the one?"