[Thiz]

I can't answer a single question in an interview without getting sweatily nervous. I suffer from telephobia so I screw dearly all phone interviews. I dress awkwardly and they know it, having to shave for the interview is a total emotional pain. I can't code without having google always open in a tab. So why should I go to an interview that doesn't allow me to google the answers?

[powertower]

Next time, set a mind-frame of doing the interview for the experience of the moment, to realize that it's okay - that the universe is still here and nothing has changed, rather than for getting the job.

As a matter of the course, know full well that you are not getting the job. Even if you don't fumble it, know that you'll refuse their offer.

The point is that interview does not matter at all to you.

Go in fully knowing that you are not seeking anything, nor trying to prove anything, nor trying to make some statement about it all. Put this all in your mind, and everything else out.

If done and practiced, this should take you out of your obsessive introspective... To the point of laughing about it all when you walk out - after not being able to answer a single question because it was all over your head and experience level!

Later on, you'll be able to go even further by putting yourself into a buyers inner perceptive (you're shopping for the right employer), rather than a sellers inner perspective (you're selling yourself to an employer).

* As always, this is easier said than done, and will require at least a few minutes of meditation every day.

[fillskills]

My uncle once told me something that has helped me be way less nervous at interviews. He said "Don't go in thinking you need them, go in the interview thinking they need you". Just before an interview I repeat this sentence once, seems to take pressure off my chest.

[svalorzen]

I go into interviews with another mindset. I think that I'm going to get relatively nice problems that I can try to solve without real-world consequences, and that is always fun. I also think that I'm going to meet people who code and possibly do the job I'd like to do, so I really can't wait to meet them. All in all, I treat is as a mini-vacation where I meet people I like and I talk about things I like. Whether I get the job or not is absolutely indifferent to me, I'm just in for a good time.