You're Not Interviewing for the Job. You're Auditioning for the Job Title

Great article! My opinion: the ones interviewing you for a position should be the ones you will be working with from day to day. This way the both of you get to evaluate how you feel about working together. I have declined job offers where I didn't like the persons I was going to work with.

Do you go through the whole process? I never know if I should just bow out in the middle if I they've scared me off. Just say I think I can save us both our afternoon.

The alternative is to try to keep up the pretense and I'm terrible at that, so I end up sandbagging the interview and then they of course don't make an offer. And no matter how many times I look at it, I can't decide which is less likely to cause me problems in the long term.

I think it's important to go into an interview with the mindset that I am interviewing them as well as they are interviewing me. Why give them a reason for withdrawing an application if they don't ask for one? If they ask for a reason, it starts to become a negotiation.