How to address tech "bro" coworker who talks over or dismisses you?

Post date: 2022-09-27 06:44:01

I had an interview today for a job that would bring me back into the tech world. Two of the people I interviewed with were great; the third exhibited a few of the 'tech bro' behaviors that moved me out of the space in the first place: namely (1) talking over the end of my thoughts with a different topic/question, and (2) saying something like, "huh, you said that you experienced X, when here I've only seen Y", and then plowing into yet another topic before his statement could be addressed. Yes, I know both tactics are ways to exert control or diminish the other person's comments/experience. I really need this job -- what are some ways you, my tech compatriots, you have successfully addressed these behaviors? Specific wordings are helpful as well as general strategies. I am a female, roughly 15 years older than him.

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