An interview is the adult equivalent of an exam, right? If not an interrogation. There will be a set of questions, some of them set up to corner you. The best you can do is to prepare and memorize some good answers and try to get everything right. Perhaps elsewhere this is true, but not in Sweden. In fact, many internationals may be so focused on getting all the answers right that they forget to ask any of their own. Or they might believe it would be disrespectful to query their potential employer too much.

However, most Swedes will interpret a questionless interviewee as passive and lacking interest and initiative. They may also find you disorganized and unprepared, if you haven’t prepared your questions in a notebook or digital device that you brought to the interview. This may come as a shock for many professionals who believe that such methods would be seen as ‘cheating’. But again, a Swedish interview is not an exam, it is a dialogue. Good questions can relate to organization topics, such as who you will be working with and what their backgrounds are, as well as more technical questions such as what software and applications they are using for different tasks. However, you should avoid asking about pay until the hiring manager brings up the question.