Silent Interview Killers: Six Mistakes That Doom Both Sides (And What to Do Instead)

A Bar-Raiser's Guide to What Both Sides Get Wrong And How to Fix It

I've conducted over 850 technical interviews at Amazon as a bar-raiser, and trained thousands of people internally on how to interview candidates and evaluate talent. After nearly two decades of watching people interact in high-pressure situations, I've noticed that the same mistakes keep appearing on both sides of the table.

Some of these mistakes are o…