I’ve been going on interviews lately but not hearing back and I wonder if it’s to some extent because I started note taking during interviews. When the interviewer is speaking I usually take notes on what he says and then towards the end I usually have questions I wrote down when they were speaking based on what they said. Could taking notes be perceived as negative because my head is down?

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I always think there’s a balance on note taking. Do it too little and you might come across as disengaged/disinterested but do it to much then it almost turns into a teacher-student dynamic whereas you’d rather have an open flowing conversation during an interview. Just write down bullet points of things that are only super important & what you’ll want to reference in a thank you email

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Agree with CA. I personally will write very few notes maybe a handful of bullet points.
But when the interviewer is taking notes and has there had down while I’m talking I feel annoyed like they just want to write everything down as opposed to process the info I’m saying. So I’d guess it goes both ways

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