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I had an screening interview today where I felt I answered most questions well, but there was one where my response may have come across as more hypothetical than experience-based. I'm wondering, if one or two answers don't land perfectly during an interview, does that typically impact the overall decision? How do recruiters usually make a note of that? He asked me couple of times to give that exact answer, to which I replied it was the actual work I did

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Good luck with the interview result. From what I have seen, they certainly check if the situations/answers raise the bar. Also they want to hire the person being interviewed so they will ask follow up questions to make sure that it’s the individual’s experience and not hypothetical. I was asked about a scaling scenario and I did mention it wasn’t in scope for the work I did. So they asked me if hypothetically I had to address the situation, what I would have done. So if they asked for a hypothetical scenario, then it’s ok else it should be experience based by default.

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It’s not about perfection. It’s about authenticity and backing up your CV with real stories that prove the words. Guessing that if everything else seemed ok you are good. Best of luck

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