As a hiring manager, I can tell you that there’s a very obvious difference between candidates who are trying to have authentic conversations and those who are t

As a hiring manager, I can tell you that there’s a very obvious difference between candidates who are trying to have authentic conversations and those who are trying hard to do or say whatever they think I want to hear. In engineering interviews especially I don’t penalize people for being nervous, anxious, not having perfect social skills and so on. However, it does get old to see candidates who are trying to flatter their way through interviews or who think they can simply game their way past the questions.