During interviews - best way to deal with an interviewer who constantly interrupts and talks over you when you’re answering questions?

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Classic interviewer power move to see how you respond. Your best option in that situation is to give better answers.

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That's a tough one... Had that happen a few times to me and honestly it's hard.. You just have to listen to them until they are completely done.. increase your pauses to allow if they want to interrupt or say something, without sounding like your making up shit on the spot... This typically slows down the conversation in my experience and helps keep focus on main points rather than every little detail..

What makes it worse is that typically such interviewers also tend to feel combative as well.. so if you interrupt them or continue talking while they are, even if they interrupted you first, they'll feel offended.. all you can do is accept the fact and adjust how you interview

Agreed with GS1.. there are those who do it on purpose to showcase power but there are others who are just terrible interviewers... My earlier comment was about the latter.. every company has dicks, you just have to find a way to make it work I guess

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