[cimmanom]

In an interview, especially as a software developer, you are in a position of power. It may help to remember that.

Companies are desperate to hire enough good developers. You’re evaluating the company as much as they’re evaluating you. If you’re currently employed elsewhere, you can walk away and they’ll still be scrambling to find someone to hire while you’re making your nice comfortable salary.

As a hiring manager, when interviewing a candidate I like, I’m as anxious about selling them on the company and position as they are about proving themselves to me. And a hiring manager who isn’t concerned about impressing you too is one you don’t want to work for anyway because they won’t value you.

If you can keep that in mind and flip the power dynamic in your head, suddenly you’re not on the spot trying to prove yourself to a stranger in a position of authority. Now you’re the one in charge showing your interviewer just how much they’ll be missing out on if they don’t convince you that they’re the one company you should choose out of the thousands that you could work for next.