Most interviewers are not trying to torture you for sport. Their motive is to quickly learn enough about you to make an informed decision—should you stay or should you go? By the same token, if you
know what they’re looking for, you can craft your answers accordingly (and reduce your own fear and anxiety at the same time).
I hope you’ll take it a step further and use these questions as the basis for some thoughtful self-exploration. You’ll need to be prepared to think for yourself—on your feet, not by the seat of your pants.
While competitive, certainly, the interview process is not a competition. Rather than thinking of yourself as an athlete trying to “out answer” the other candidates, consider an interview your chance to be an artist, to paint a portrait of the person you are, the kind of candidate any company would like, respect, and want to hire.
Despite the emphasis on “great answers,” I do not recommend rote memorization. Trotting out a staged, textbook answer to a question is not the point of the interview process . . . or of this book. It is actually more important to concentrate on the “What do they want to hear?” section after each question, to have an understanding of why the interviewer is asking a particular question and what you need to do to frame a winning answer.
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