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by jvanderbot 238 days ago
You have to make this a back and forth, not a monologue. Nobody is going to criticize you for tailoring your response to what they want to talk about. Treat it more like a coworker you respect asking you about architecture options, not like a right/wrong graded quiz from college or a chance to assert your knowledge and experience. Your knowledge and experience will show anyway.
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I agree but it is not uncommon to find interview processes where a monologue is exactly what they expect and they are unable to have an actual conversation about the topic for whatever reason.
Then it would especially behoove you to spend 2 minutes to figure out which monologue they want.