[lucisferre]

The one tip I'd give any interviewee is to take time and *pause*.

Often the interviewer is looking for fairly short and concise answers to their questions so they can direct the flow and conversations to what they need to hear through further questions. Filling all the available air time either forces them to rudely interrupt you (which feels awkward) or wait for you to finish even though they aren't that interested in the content.

As an example, if you are asked a very open ended question like "tell me about about role X and company Y.

Start with a brief overview of the role, the company and responsibilities and then pause. Then if they don't immediately ask a more detailed question about the role suggest something. "Would you like to me get into some details about my most recent project/success/challenge?"

Staying brief helps the interviewer get to what they want to know and eases your own burden of maintaining all of the flow in the conversation.

[nescioquid]

That's a good way for a candidate to help the interviewer. Often an overly general question sends the candidate to empty out their mental filing cabinets in hope of finding the magic word the interviewer is waiting for.

If a candidate does that, I feel I've screwed up as an interviewer. The best interviews I've conducted turn out to just be conversations where we're talking shop and we get to know each other a little.

There's so much coaching on the interviewee side of the equation, yet the only guidance or coaching I've seen given to interviewers is to shield the company from discrimination claims by turning in a consistent set of interview questions to HR.

[CoffeeOnWrite]

This is great and I lean on it heavily when explaining technical stuff to a non-technical audience or low level stuff to an executive audience. This looks like a decent dive into this tactic sometimes called “headline style”: https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2017/05/03/conscious...

[madeofpalk]

This is my biggest struggle as an interviewer - I either rudely interrupt (and cause more stress for the candidate) or waste all our team while they babble on aimlessly about something irrelevant.