Interviewers test intellectual humility with questions like: "Tell me about a time you were wrong about something."
Weak answer: "I thought the deadline was Monday but it was Friday. I adjusted." This is a scheduling mistake, not intellectual humility.
Strong answer: "I pushed hard for microservices on a project that should have been a monolith. When performance tanked, I ran the benchmarks myself, presented the data to the team, and led the migration back. We shipped weeks late but the system was x faster."