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by kylecordes 1931 days ago
This is tricky. On one hand, as an interviewer you want to leave room for interviewees to express themselves as fully as possible. On the other hand, the purpose of the interview is for both parties to gain as much information as possible about whether both want to work together - and this is often not optimized by having each question point go its full length, but rather by getting just a bit of information on each topic and then moving to the next.
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I agree, however if the interviewer is late to the interview, they have started on the wrong foot for planning and getting the data they need