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Both yours and the author's suggestions are great, will have to give em a try. So many candidates torpedo their own interview by doing that "Word Salad" dump when you ask them a question. It's like they have a bunch of unstructured responses prepared for any topic, and if you mention one of those topics in your question, they just unload the dump truck full of words and ramble until you tell them to stop talking. Alw…
That behavior is the result of nervousness and being in the stressful and unpleasant situation of having to do interviews at all. I'm not sure there's a lot that can be done to reduce it, honestly.
And if they don't know how to interview people (which apparently many don't), they should err on the side of being less aggressive and overconfident about it.