looking at your notes during the interview
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looking at your notes during the interview
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Is it okay to look at your notes regarding behavioral questions during the interview?
Before my interview I had written down some notes on answers to common behavioral questions (the ones that basically ask me to dig up something from my history). During the interview I got asked something that was in my notes, and I think I would've answered the question better had I glanced at them, but I decided not to. If they can serve to refresh your memory, maybe it doesn't hurt? Or perhaps it depends on the question?
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It's not a good idea to let the interviewer know that you prepared for those behavior questions and expect them to ask those questions. It's even worse if you can not remember those answers and want to take a look of the answers during the interview. You give the interviewer the feeling that you are reciting something, which is not the purpose of the interview.
- Googler March 06, 2013I am not saying you should not prepare for those questions, but you have to understand those questions and speak in your own comfortable words, not repeating other peoples' answers word by word.