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3 Reasons Why You Will Fail Your Next Job Interview

Walter Guevara
5 min readNov 20, 2020

There’s alot that goes into nailing an interview and walking away feeling like a champ. And there’s equally as many things that will make an interview go south fast and leave you feeling like you need a career change.

Regardless of the roles or years of experience that you may have, there are certain things that will put you out of the running and fast.

Maybe you aren’t doing any of these on purpose. They could be just habits that you pick up in your day to day lives. I know I’ve done these myself in the past. But maybe shedding some light on them can help you out on your next interview.

Because the more you know what “not” to do, the easier it is for you to notice what you should do.

Don’t say “I don’t know”

Or “I’m not sure”, or “next question”. Or any phrase with a negative connotation associated with it. It’s perfectly fine to not know things. That’s just us being human. But as soon as you say it, you lose points. Maybe not consciously, but on a subconscious level the interviewer won’t forget those words.

Even worse, they may have a long list of questions related to this topic and your “I don’t know” has pretty much invalidated half of the interview notes. In which case, this is going to make for either one…

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Walter Guevara
Walter Guevara

Written by Walter Guevara

I'm a 3x Startup CTO and Co-founder with 20+ years of software development experience. Blogger. Los Angeles native. Future sci-fi author.

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