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<blockquote data-quote="Maria d'Orey" data-source="post: 121367" data-attributes="member: 25017">Very good question [USER=17670]@Crystal86[/USER] ! I think that the key here is reaching the right balance between sticking to your opinion and being open-minded. I would say that if the interviewer is literally slowly feeding you information you should feel free to re-evaluate the facts you're being given and change your mind if appropriate. It is only natural that if you don't have all of the information from the outset, your opinion might change after you've been presented with it.However, if the point is that you've given your opinion and the interviewer is picking on things that you've said and providing counter-arguments, I think that it is also important that you be firm and defend your position for a little bit. Partners do this often to see if you can find alternative arguments to support your opinion, but they also don't want to work with someone who cannot recognise that they're wrong and cannot accept that there might be a better solution. When this situation happened to me, I personally tried sticking to my argument for the first few &quot;rounds&quot;. I did this by showing that I recognised what they had said (for example &quot;That's an interesting point, I hadn't thought of that&quot;), but that I still thought that I believed X was the best solution because Y. However, I was also honest with myself - when it got to the point that they clearly had a more reasonable solution (which will likely happen!), I accepted it and pointed out in what way I thought my reasoning might have been flawed!&nbsp; 😊</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Maria d'Orey, post: 121367, member: 25017"] Very good question [USER=17670]@Crystal86[/USER] ! I think that the key here is reaching the right balance between sticking to your opinion and being open-minded. I would say that if the interviewer is literally slowly feeding you information you should feel free to re-evaluate the facts you're being given and change your mind if appropriate. It is only natural that if you don't have all of the information from the outset, your opinion might change after you've been presented with it. However, if the point is that you've given your opinion and the interviewer is picking on things that you've said and providing counter-arguments, I think that it is also important that you be firm and defend your position for a little bit. Partners do this often to see if you can find alternative arguments to support your opinion, but they also don't want to work with someone who cannot recognise that they're wrong and cannot accept that there might be a better solution. When this situation happened to me, I personally tried sticking to my argument for the first few "rounds". I did this by showing that I recognised what they had said (for example "That's an interesting point, I hadn't thought of that"), but that I still thought that I believed X was the best solution because Y. However, I was also honest with myself - when it got to the point that they clearly had a more reasonable solution (which will likely happen!), I accepted it and pointed out in what way I thought my reasoning might have been flawed! 😊 [/QUOTE]

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