I have given a lot of interviews in the 6.5 years of my career. I have been interviewed by people from the senior engineer level to the VP and the experience has varied across the spectrum. When I had begun my career, the interviews were more of the question-answer format. This, slowly transitioned to a discussion kind of format. The change that I have undergone in this tenure is quite wide too. I used to be a go-by-the-book sort of a person in the initial days; I am not like that anymore. I carried a lot of apprehensions in interacting with people at a high designation earlier, but I am not like that anymore. Compared to my earlier days, I know how to negotiate with people, how to stand my ground now, how to mould a few questions in the interview, how not to be hesitant during an interview... However, there is one thing that has not changed - I have butterflies in my stomach during the first 2-3 minutes of an interview. I think the anxiety and excitement takes that form, but then it normalizes soon