Interviews

An interview is a meeting with an agenda that nobody has shown you. Most of what can be prepared is not the answers — it is understanding who is in the room, what they are each being asked to assess, and what the organisation is allowed to ask you.

• The compensation question, now that postings carry a range

  Reviewed by Wesley Boughton.

  11 Aug 2026

• Panel interviews: who is actually deciding

  Reviewed by Priya Chandrasekar.

  19 Mar 2026

The recovery move, which is worth knowing before you need it

If you give a bad answer, you may return to it. “Can I come back to the second question? I answered what I thought you asked and I do not think it was what you asked” is a normal sentence that interviewers hear regularly and think nothing of. Candidates almost never use it, apparently because it feels like admitting a fault. Interviewers we have asked describe it as one of the more positive things a candidate can do.