what would you tell in response to "tell me about yourself" without mentioning anything about your job/work ?

I have a job interview coming up and want to get everything right this time. Would appreciate any suggestions. I usually start by telling where I've done my college from and then talk about the work I've done at my current firm. Anything more that I should add?

What details should I include when the interviewer asks me to describe myself? I get this urge to say that everything is given in the CV, but, of course, I cannot say that. So, how should I frame my answer that impresses the interviewer?

Me :

So I wanted to know what kind of things you do or personality you have after your working hours. Basically you could list down your hobbies or maybe skills you are trying to learn or anything else. Looking forward to some out of the box responses I'll go first, so I am currently focusing on my fitness, going to the gym and trying to correct my routine to wake up early. Also wanting to learn a musical instrument like a harmonica or a flute but still procrastinating on that one😂.

Have you had any funny incidents around this question

nobody cares about these questions and nobody has follow-up questions, these are only asked as a formality: 1. Tell me about yourself. 2. Tell me about a challenging project you did. why ask such questions when your very next statement is "let's do a DSA based question"

I believe most of the questions available on the internet are quite redundant to test someone's system design knowledge. I'm not looking for typical questions like building YouTube/Instagram/Whatsapp, which are only for beginners. I'm looking for questions which you are able to answer on the basis of your personal experience, in depth questions. e.g how did you use indexing/sharding/query optimisation/rate limiting etc in your project? what would you do in a so&so situation? the questions which show me whether a person has actually worked on the systems instead of just having the theoretical knowledge. I know it depends on how the interviewer asks the question, because it's supposed to be vague but I'm still looking for very specific questions. So please tell me, what are such questions which you like to ask someone or the questions which you were asked in an interview ? or just share your interesting system design interview experience, would be helpful to others.

I recently started interviewing after a period of about 5 years and I am very surprised about the change in the way interviews are conducted these days. I have now interviewed for few companies like Sitetracker, Avance Clinical, Iron Mountain and expedite commerce and each organisation had their first round as a fit check round which i’m unable to clear. Can you guys share some tips around it.

I will go first, i have deleted my first company from my resume because even though i was very good at coding. They put me in a support project in graveyard shift. I faked illness to get out of shift, and later on was removed and put in angular project. I moved on 6 months later to a good company as backend engineer but i really regret joining my 1st company. When asked , I just say the work was not relevant to what i wanted. Please share your experience too.