Ask HN: How do I impress my interviewer

Impressing an interviewer, especially on technical subjects is largely beyond your control.

However, when sizing up a candidate's potential 'cultural fit', hiring managers still tend to hire people they like.

Being likeable, that is being friendly-- can go a long way creating a favorable impression. Express a genuine curiosity in the individuals you meet with and what they do, ask intelligent questions, try to find common areas of interest.

In sales, they call it rapport building-- it's a practiced skill-- tremendously powerful and underappreciated asset.

I wonder that question too. I think maybe we faced something similar. I want to work abroad. Some corporations in silicon valley like Google. But it's kind of difficult to impress those recruiters through my CV.