Don't burn yourself in job interviews
You may be the man/woman but always stay humble
OK, I've become a "grumpy old man", but I also have more than a few years of experience working as a development engineer, mentoring my team mates and in both sides of the table, interviewing candidates and also being interviewed myself.
I have to admit that it also took more than a few years before realizing my own attitude was stoping me from being hired, so here's a free advice:
Stay humble
As simple as that. You may be a plain expert in many topics, perhaps a really experienced developer/programmer/software engineer, and maybe your interviewer has no idea about what he/she is talking about.
Even in those extreme cases stay humble. Remember you're the one who is looking for a job, you may be tempted to correct your interviewer, and you certainly can, respectfully, but always remember that in this instance you're the one who's being interviewed.
For eg:
I'll have to check my notes, because I differ from your observations/definitions/other… , but I'll take your word on this topic.
That's a nice way of correcting your interviewer, without doing so.
Subtle, elegant, and doesn't burn yourself, unless you overuse the resource.
If you're being interviewed, I can asure you will face a grumpy old man like me, most likely the person you'll have to impress.
Another free advice:
Convince your future boss, impress the right person.
Just don't burn yourself, the world is smaller than we all think, and worst of all, it's round (OK, spheric… but you get the point 😅), we can meet again elsewhere, in some future timeline, and I do (as most interviewers) have a good memory for this kind of stories.
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