I'm pretty terrible at interviews and probably bombed more than my fair share. It's frustrating but I forget sometimes that the person on the other side knows n

I'm pretty terrible at interviews and probably bombed more than my fair share. It's frustrating but I forget sometimes that the person on the other side knows next to nothing about me, and all they'll learn is what I show them. Being the type to undersell and over-deliver it really ends up biting me in the end. Those personality traits can't really be unlearned, but I think it helps if you go in with a nothing-to-lose attitude and explain as much as you can - maybe something you say will connect with the interviewer. I think the other problem here is something I blogged about before: programming is (for me) a tacit skill (http://doxsey.net/blog/tacit-knowledge http://doxsey.net/blog/tacit-knowledge). I have no idea how I do it and I can't really explain it in the abstract. It'll look real rough in the start (like I have no idea what I'm doing), but 3 days later I'll probably have a solution. In other words, I can probably do the job, but I can't really prove it in the interview.