The less fodder you, as a candidate, give an interviewer for structuring the interview, the better.
In most companies, interviewers are trained to "screen" candidates with a series of tech-out questions (and maybe some culture-fit stuff).
As a candidate, your interests are best served by (gracefully) taking as much control over the interview as possible. Turn the interview around on the interviewer. Ask the interviewer questions about tech problems they've run into, and then ask if you can talk about how you'd address them. Guide the interview to questions that push the interviewer's buttons.
If you sit back and passively accept the interview as it's offered to you by a screener, you put yourself on a level playing field with everyone else being interviewed for the role. Which is a bad thing.
I want to echo Thomas's sentiment here about asking questions of the interviewer.
It really is of tremendous benefit while interviewing to be the one driving (or at least steering) the interview. Even aside from any psychological power dynamic, it's a really good way to make sure you get to cover the things you want to cover.
If you've ever come out of an interview and said "Oh man, hopefully that went good; but I wish they'd asked me to talk more about area 'X'.", you know it can be nerve-wracking.
Being able to have an actual conversation, where there's interplay between the interviewer and interviewee will do wonders for your anxiety level (which considering how stressful interviewing can be for some people, can be a big deal).
In most companies, interviewers are trained to "screen" candidates with a series of tech-out questions (and maybe some culture-fit stuff).
As a candidate, your interests are best served by (gracefully) taking as much control over the interview as possible. Turn the interview around on the interviewer. Ask the interviewer questions about tech problems they've run into, and then ask if you can talk about how you'd address them. Guide the interview to questions that push the interviewer's buttons.
If you sit back and passively accept the interview as it's offered to you by a screener, you put yourself on a level playing field with everyone else being interviewed for the role. Which is a bad thing.