Story Bank Template

Prepare 8–10 stories that together cover every competency. Most questions can be answered by adapting one of them.

Coverage matrix

Story (short name)	Ownership	Dive deep	Conflict	Leadership	Failure	Ambiguity	Impact
e.g. Lakehouse governance layers	✅			✅		✅	✅
e.g. Streaming lag incident	✅	✅			✅
e.g. LLM SQL migration		✅	✅			✅	✅
…

Template (copy per story)

### Story: <short name>

**One-line summary:** <what you did and the result in one sentence>

**Situation** (20 s): company/team, scale, why it mattered to the business.
**Task** (10 s): your specific responsibility / the goal.
**Action** (60–90 s): 3–4 concrete actions YOU took, decisions and trade-offs, obstacles.
**Result** (20 s): numbers (latency, cost, incidents, users, hours saved) + business outcome.
**Learning**: what you'd do differently.

**Likely follow-ups:**
- Why that approach over <alternative>?
- What was the hardest part?
- What did others contribute?
- How did you measure the result?

Quality checklist

Every story has at least one number
“I” for your actions, “we” only for team context
Each story fits in 2–3 minutes spoken
You can go 3 levels deep on the technical details
At least one genuine failure story
At least one conflict story where you didn’t “win”