interviewer

noun

in·​ter·​view·​er ˈin-tər-ˌvyü-ər 

plural interviewers

: a person who conducts an interview : one (such as a journalist or prospective employer) who obtains information from another by asking a series of questions

"I never thought I would live to see this day," John Lewis, King's former Selma ally, tells an NPR interviewer on the afternoon of my arrival.

—Dave Gardetta

The meeting with the interviewer had lasted 10 minutes. The man did not even open a folder in front of him to study Mr. Rucker's résumé.

—Michael Luo

The next evening, a Libyan state-TV crew came to film us. The segment, in which an interviewer asked us to describe the rebels—I said "happy," Manu said "stoned," and Jim said "ill-equipped"—never aired, probably because our black eyes and bruises wouldn't have played well.

—Clare Morgana Gillis

Synonyms of interviewer

• inquirer
• questioner
• pollster

Examples of interviewer in a Sentence

had no time for an interviewer who wanted to ask me about my phone service

Recent Examples on the Web

The interviewer is an unnamed writer in early middle age, the usual Lerner proxy. —Giles Harvey, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026

But the interviewer didn’t stop there. —Rowan Fisher-Shotton, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2026

The marketing campaign will attempt to put a positive spin on California’s economy and business climate, echoing how Newsom typically responds when interviewers ask about corporate migrations and loss of population to other states. —Dan Walters, Oc Register, 27 Mar. 2026

When a job candidate arrives for an interview, the interviewer walks them to the kitchen for a beverage. —Sydney Lake, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1868, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for interviewer

• bluer
• breuer
• brewer
• couper
• ewer
• fewer
• fluor
• hewer
• newer
• sewer
• skewer
• truer