Comment by MattPalmer1086
15 hours ago
Speaking as someone who has done a lot of interviewing of candidates - being long winded or an otherwise poor communicator is one of the most common reasons to reject someone.
It's definitely worth practicing to be concise and clear in your responses (and don't waffle on - something I'm guilty of). Learn when to stop talking too.
It's just tough for me, because I kind of take pride in being accurate and technical questions often have a lot of edge cases and caveats that I feel compelled to point out because I don't want to say inaccurate stuff.
But of course that can go onto infinity; at some point you need to summarize and accept you can't be 100% accurate. I guess I need to figure out how to strike a balance between "blathering on" and "hand-waving away details". I have no idea how to do that but that might be a good thing to get out of mock interviews.
You can just refer to the edge cases or caveats (so it's clear you are aware of them) and let the interviewer follow up on them if they want to. This makes the interview a bit more conversational and helps build rapport with the interviewer.