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I think you’ve got it right. The best interviews I’ve participated in felt like working with someone for an hour or so. As for the opposite scenario, you’ve go

• atoav 7y ago
  > As for the opposite scenario, you’ve got that right as well, except that the interviewer is a 25 year old, recently graduated theater major. Insert there what you want, hehe. It always reminds me of one teacher I had, who always wanted to get oddly specific answers on his (always a little to unspecific) questions. He was so happy when nobody could answer it, he probably forgot what his job actually was. Behaviour like this tells more about the psyche of the interviewer than it tells about the candidate. Sometimes a behaviour like this is also the interviewers way of making sure the candidate doesn't expose them as the fraud they deep down feel they are: "See they didn't know that oddly specific bit (that I know!), so they must be worse than me – thank god!" In case of my teacher he felt insecure enough to feel the need to one-up teenagers and instead of teaching them something. Interviewers are only human after all as well. But it shouldn't be the candidates job to rub interviewers in the right way in order to make them comfortable with their own shortcomings as it shouldn't be the pupils job to massage teachers into actually teaching them something.