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Recent Job Interviews I’ve been following this subreddit for a while (this isn’t my main). As someone approaching their mid-20s I’ve been dealing with a stutter as long as I can remember. A few years ago trying to get a co-op/internship over the phone interviews I was stuttering every few words, it felt very stressful and made me think that I wouldn’t progress in my career. As a somewhat recent graduate, I’ve been applying around and landed 3 recent interviews. All three were held over microsoft teams with both audio and visual with a panel of interviewers. The first I did not mention my stutter before the interview, just tried my best and stuttered pretty much ever sentence I spoke. I did not get this position, was granted a post-interview where I was told my technical assignment and testing scores were excellent but I needed to reiterate it all during the interview - which I held myself back from saying some certain things due to my stutter. The second one, I gave them a heads up before the beginning of questioning. I had never done something like this before and I was sort of debating the pros and cons and this subreddit sort of helped me build the strength to do it. I also had a rough time with my speech, I think it went a bit better due to feeling less bad or ashamed about it during the interview and the panel being understanding and giving me my time to answer. The third one, I again gave them a heads up over email and was given some questions beforehand to which I was able to make notes and practice beforehand. Verbally this was probably my best of the three and I think it was due to the prior questions and tensions reduced by chatting just before the interview about my stutter. Personally, it helped me by making the panel aware of my stutter and explaining it to them at the beginning. It took a weight off my shoulders which I believe helped me perform better during the interview. I learned a lot from this subreddit as speech therapy as a child didn’t help me as much as my family expected to, I was always calm around my therapist and reading from a book you sort of develop when to breathe and pause for commas, periods, etc. This is sort of a “hey, thank you for this great community”. Lurking here over the years has helped me and landed my #1 choice of the 3 job prospects. I do think reading through posts of others here over the last few years has made me accept my stutter more, feel more comfortable about it and allow myself to worry a bit less about the shame I would feel during interviews being unable to give that perfectly worded and pronounced answer.