was why don't you ask your last boyfriend he's going out with her now.

You want a laugh, ask a potential employer, what happened to the person you are replacing.

On a more serious note, there is a reasonable dimension to the question.

Are you good enough at communicating to tell the person on the other side of the desk what they want to hear and what you want them to hear.

Note a very different thing from the truth.
The question is begging for a lie, it's then a question of how well you do that.