Interview Prep

Interview Prep has two halves: a reusable Question Bank (/interview-prep, under Library) where you keep default answers warm, and per-round prep inside each job's drawer where you tailor them to a specific interview round.

TL;DR — Build the bank with the questions you actually face (AI-draft a first pass from your resume). When a job hits Interviewing, Add from bank to each round, tweak per audience, and Export to PDF for a cheat sheet.

The two halves in full:

  1. My Question Bank at /interview-prep — your personal library of questions + default answers. Lives under the Library sidebar item.
  2. Per-round prep inside each job's drawer — the questions you've chosen to focus on for a specific scheduled interview round.

Quick start — populate the bank

If you've never used the bank before:

  1. Open Library → Question Bank (or the direct URL /interview-prep)
  2. Toggle the direction at the top: They ask me (the standard "tell me about yourself"-style questions) vs I ask them (questions you'll bring to the interview)
  3. The bank ships with a curated default set — the page is a two-column split: questions on the left, the selected question's answer editor on the right. Click a question to select it.
  4. Type a default answer in the right-hand editor (or click AI draft to get a first pass grounded in your resume)
  5. Save — the answer is now your bank-default for that question

Repeat for the questions you want a default for. You don't need to answer all of them; only the ones you actually expect to face.

Adding a personal question

The bank has a default set + you can add your own:

  1. Click Add personal on the page header
  2. Pick Direction (they ask me / I ask them)
  3. Pick Category (Behavioral / Technical / Leadership / etc.)
  4. Type the question
  5. Optionally tag with role keywords (e.g. vp, engineering) so it surfaces only for matching jobs
  6. Save — the question lands in your bank, taggable as Personal

Quick start — per-round prep (inside a Job)

Once a job hits Interviewing:

  1. On Job Search or Pipeline, click the job to open its drawer
  2. Switch to the Interview Prep tab — one sub-tab per scheduled interview round
  3. On a round's sub-tab, click Add from bank
  4. Pick a category in the modal (Behavioral / Technical / Leadership / Role-specific / etc.) — the table scopes to that category to keep each page short
  5. Check the questions you want to prep for this round; you can flip categories without losing your selection
  6. Add to round — each picked question is added with its bank-default answer prefilled
  7. Edit each answer to tailor it for this round's audience (e.g. shorter for a phone screen, technical for the engineer round) — or click AI tweak / AI draft to have the AI tailor it to this job's description and this round's stage, then review the result below and Save. (The round's AI tweak no longer touches your shared bank-default answer.)
  8. Save each as you go. The Dictate button sits next to Save, so you can speak an answer and tidy it before saving.

From AI Tips — straight into the bank or a round

A job's AI Tips tab (Job Details drawer, available while the job is Interested, Applied, or Interviewing) suggests likely interview questions — both questions the interviewer may ask you and questions to ask the interviewer. Below those, the Add to your interview prep panel lets you pick a destination:

  • Question Bank (default) — adds the checked questions to your reusable bank at /interview-prep, so they're available for every job.
  • This interview's prep — appears only once the job is Interviewing with an interview round set up. Adds the checked questions straight to that round's prep (pick the round if there's more than one). Questions already in the bank are reused rather than duplicated, and each lands with your bank-default answer prefilled.

Questions already present in the chosen destination show as Added and can't be re-added, so re-running this never creates duplicates.

Round controls

Each round sub-tab lists every question added to the round in one flat table — expand · Category · Answered/Unanswered · Question — ordered by category, with no collapsible groups to wade through. A two-way slider at the right of the round's date/format row switches the table between They ask me and I ask them (one at a time). Click a row (or its chevron) to expand the answer editor. The toolbar has:

  • Add from bank (primary) — opens the bank picker described above
  • Add personal — shortcut to author a one-off question for this round; Add to Question Bank checkbox controls whether it also saves to /interview-prep (default: off — round-only)
  • Preview Q&A — the review surface (more on this below)
  • Cheatsheet — one-line AI reminders (more on this below)

Preview Q&A + PDF export

Click Preview Q&A to see all answered questions for this round in one scrollable view. From the modal:

  • Reorder with the ▲▼ buttons next to each row — within a category. Useful for putting your strongest answer first when printing a cheat sheet.
  • Export to PDF — generates a print-friendly view; the PDF follows the order you set in the preview.

Print the PDF, mark it up, take it into the interview. Or keep it on a second screen during a virtual interview.

Cheatsheet

Once a round has at least one answered They ask me question, the Cheatsheet button is enabled. It uses AI to distil each prepared answer into a single one-line reminder — the hook, the story name, the headline result — so you can refresh your memory at a glance instead of re-reading full answers.

  • Click Cheatsheet to open the single-screen view. Each row shows the question and its one-line reminder.
  • Generate missing (N) only sends questions that don't have a cheatsheet yet — so add more questions later, click again, and only the new ones are processed. Each line generated uses one AI action.
  • Edited an answer? Use the per-row regenerate button to refresh just that one line.

Cheatsheets are saved per round, so they're there next time you open the round.

Bank vs round — the rules

  • Answers in the bank are your defaults — they apply when the same question comes up across multiple jobs
  • Answers in a round are per-job, per-audience tweaks — they don't overwrite the bank
  • Removing a question from a round does NOT delete it from the bank
  • Deleting a personal question from the bank removes it from any round that's using it

"I ask them" — the questions you bring

The same direction toggle that exists on the bank page exists on the round's picker. The "I ask them" set is curated to push you toward asking thoughtful questions in interviews — about culture, on-call, decision-making, the role's success criteria.

Add a few to each round; rotate them across rounds so you're not asking the same question twice.

Tips

  • Build the bank gradually. Start with the 5 questions that always come up for your role (tell me about yourself, why this company, why now, biggest weakness, ideal next role). Add more as you encounter them.
  • Don't memorize verbatim. The answer in the bank is a reference — the per-round version is where you hone it. Reading a memorised answer in an interview always sounds rehearsed.
  • Use AI draft sparingly on personal questions. For highly-personal stuff (your transition story, your why), the AI's draft will sound generic. For more standard questions (technical concepts, frameworks), AI is faster.

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