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How to blow your technical interview
Oct 6th 2013, 00:30, by Grizzled Guru

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Interviewing is a skill. Like any other skill, you need to practice. When I'm interviewing you, I can tell if you've been practicing or not.

Interviewing skills are important, but for a long time, I wasn't really very good at it. I held several positions at my national lab over 20 years, but the interviews were often with colleagues who knew me well. I interviewed candidates for internships at schools and similarly interviewed mostly entry-level candidates for positions in my group.

This did not prepare me for the rounds of technical interviews at my first New York City job with the eccentric billionaire. Somehow I managed to impress them through the two phone screens and two on-site interviews. I got the job, and within a week, I was interviewing new candidates.

I learned a lot about interviewing in that process... Especially what not to do.

We don't really want to hire you

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