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One of the most important things you can do in preparing for an interview is, if it's
at all possible, find out who is actually interviewing you. Who's conducting the interview?
And then what you want to do is go on LinkedIn and find out as much information about them
as possible, so that as soon as you walk into the room, you have a point of reference. You
can say, "Hey, I heard that you graduated from the University of Wisconsin," or "I didn't
realize this, but you worked at Microsoft before you came to this company." As much
as possible, you want a level of familiarity, so that when you walk into the interview you
lose the sense of tension and sense of nervousness. If you know something personal about the individual,
or something in the context of what they've done in their career, that's a perfect segway
into the interview. So that's really how you ultimately want to prepare is you want to
know something about this individual. Don't feel afraid of actually asking who is going
to be conducting the interview. Get their name. Google search them. Learn as much as
you can about them so that by the time you go in for that interview, you have a frame
of reference so you can make a connection and make a great impression. That's what you
need to do in preparing for an interview.