[bluehatbrit]

No one's talked about being on the interviewer side yet.

I've seen some interviewers really botch the candidate experience of a bad interview. One ended it about 30 minutes before the end and asked the candidate "do you think this is going well?". That felt like it really lacked compassion and while it may have saved time for everyone it clearly made the candidate feel even worse than they already did.

Typically for the end 20mins or so I try and give to candidates to ask us questions. Even if they've bombed I'll still give them that time. If they run out of questions early then it feels more like they've bought the interview to a close than me. I'll wrap things up, thank them for their time, and explain that they'll hear from us the next working day.

I'm all for a candidate ending the interview early, if things really aren't working then I have no problem with that at all. When you're on the other side of the table I think you need to give a bit more as you're fronting for the company. I also want to give people time to recover if things are going badly.