How to Flip an Interview in the First 5 Minutes

Logosofia no Dia a Dia · Sep 1, 2026 · 25m

Most career advice tells you to save your best questions for the end — but by then, the interviewer's impression is already set. This episode explores what happens when you flip the script entirely: taking control of turn-taking from the opening handshake, deploying Socratic questioning as a power move, and using the interview as an intelligence-gathering operation. We break down three concrete mechanisms for commanding the conversation, including the pre-mortem question that forces interviewers into defensive posture, and the scorched-earth techniques for extracting market intelligence when…