> technical interviews skills are gained Oh yes, and that applies to both sides of the table. Interviewing skills are learned as well - and they can be taught.

> technical interviews skills are gained Oh yes, and that applies to both sides of the table. Interviewing skills are learned as well - and they can be taught. (A friend is proud of the fact that he's had actual interviewing training.) Interviewing is not that hard, but it sure as hell is a difficult thing to master. I'm reasonably good, but still nowhere near as good as I'd want to be. Nonetheless, it's still a skill that can be learned and improved. The irony is that it'll be easier to improve one's interviewer skills than those of being interviewed. The reason is that if you're conducting technical interviews, you'll be doing it as part of your job, and any reasonably good interviewer will have his or her calendar full of learning opportunities. Candidates will have less opportunities and due to the nature of the experience, are likely to be demoralising to boot. I recently wrote a post about things I've picked up and learned when doing technical interviews: https://smarketshq.com/notes-on-interviewing-engineers-a4fa4383968a https://smarketshq.com/notes-on-interviewing-engineers-a4fa4... ; when judging the experience from HN posts, I cannot help the feeling that most engineers are subjected to pretty horrible, even recurring interviewing experiences.