Difficulty with job interviews.

[Turbineguy]

1. Maybe the answer is

that you don't really think about these sorts of things because you are focused on the outcome. When the problem is solved, you forget the details while keeping a vague, "Yeah, there was an interesting and complicated problem, I solved it. That means I can solve other problems." Myself for example, I tend to forget details that I have written down because it is an inefficient use of my brain to remember them since they are recorded.

It's said that Albert Einstein did not remember his phonenumber, he was listed in the phonebook and could look it up.

It's the knowledge that you have to pay attention to details that's important, not so much remembering the minutia of the details later.