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> I know that some of this is nerves but it can’t account for all of it. Why not? If you've never experienced severe situational anxiety, you may not know how
by _qulr 6y ago
> I know that some of this is nerves but it can’t account for all of it.
Why not?
If you've never experienced severe situational anxiety, you may not know how debilitating it can be.
And then, maddeningly, perhaps just minutes after the interview is over, you return to your "normal" self, and start to think about what you would have done in that situation if you weren't nervous.
It's basically stage fright, which can be terrifying if you're not used to the stage.
- salt-licker 6y agoI guess I'm generally going off of an interviewee's body language, which isn't entirely fair since I'm not a mind reader. And I'm sure I'm missing some cases of stage fright, which is why again I mentioned all the techniques above that I try to mitigate this, but I agree is a really unfortunate side-effect of the interview process that I don't have a fool-proof solution for. Still, I do have some EQ. A lot of candidates exhibit visible anxiety and then get into a rhythm and calm down when they start coding. Or they visibly calm down once I start asking them questions about how they're thinking and coax them towards viable implementation. On the flip side, a lot of candidates actually exhibit overconfidence running in the wrong direction, which I try to lightly mitigate but can't prevent in all cases without giving an unfair advantage.