Technical interviews are not just about your knowledge and experience. They're about demonstrating specific pieces of your skillset in really suboptimal circumstances. That is, technical interviewing itself involves a whole set of skills needed to pass. Candidates often focus heavily on specific knowledge gaps when preparing, while some don't prepare at all if they feel confident in their knowledge. What they don't realize is candidates fail just as often for lack of practice as they do for actually lacking the engineering skills required. Here are six features of technical interviews that are addressed mostly, if not entirely, by practice – experience and knowledge aside.