Interview guides
Practical guides to interview preparation.
Practical ideas for clearer answers, more relevant resumes, and a preparation routine you can actually keep.
All guides
- G01
Interview practice
6 minAI mock interview practice routine
A routine for the weeks before an interview: choosing the setup, reading your first scorecard calmly and spacing four sessions around your applications.
- G02
Resume preparation
8 minATS-friendly resume guide
For the week you send applications: see what a parser really pulls out of your file, then tighten each bullet until it proves a requirement instead of repeating it.
- G03
Behavioral interviews
11 minSTAR method for behavioral answers
For behavioral rounds: watch vague first drafts turn into specific stories, learn how long a spoken answer should run and rehearse without memorising.
01Where to start
Which guide to read first.
Still applying
Run the plain-text parse test on the exact file you are about to send, then rewrite the bullets the job description cares about, with evidence rather than keywords.
ATS-friendly resume guideBefore your first mock interview
Learn the two practice modes, what a follow-up question looks like and how to read a quoted scorecard without overreacting to one number.
AI mock interview practice routineA behavioral round is coming
Work through five STAR answers taken from a weak first attempt to a stronger one, then build three to five stories of your own.
STAR method for behavioral answers
02After reading
What you should have when you finish each guide.
A guide is only worth the time if it changes what you do next. These are the concrete results each one should leave you with.
AI mock interview practice routine
- 01Three responsibilities from the job description, each paired with the experience you would talk about.
- 02A deliberate choice between coached and strict sessions, based on how finished your stories are today.
- 03The habit of checking each quoted line on a scorecard before trusting the number beside it.
- 04Four sessions with dates in your calendar, plus a single note after each on what to adjust next time.
ATS-friendly resume guide
- 01Your resume as plain text, read from top to bottom, with anything the parser dropped moved back into the body.
- 02A file format picked from each application’s own instructions, and never a scanned PDF, which gives a parser nothing to read.
- 03Bullets that each answer one requirement in the posting with something you did and can explain in detail.
- 04A short routine you repeat before every submission, ending with no bracketed placeholders left anywhere.
STAR method for behavioral answers
- 01A bank of three to five stories, chosen so that setbacks, disagreements, tight deadlines and persuading others are all covered.
- 02A few keywords for each part of every story, kept in place of a written-out script.
- 03A feel for your natural length: roughly one to two minutes aloud, checked against a recording rather than guessed.
- 04Proof that you own each story: you can bend it to fit a question you never prepared for.
03Common ground
Four ideas that run through all three guides.
- P1
Evidence beats adjectives
“Hard-working” and “strong communicator” persuade nobody. A dated action, a decision you took and a result you can explain do, on paper and out loud alike.
- P2
Notes, not scripts
A memorised paragraph falls apart as soon as the interviewer asks from a new direction. Keep a handful of keywords per story or bullet and rebuild the sentence live.
- P3
Scores compare you with yourself
An ATS readability estimate or an IW-1 rating is handy for comparing two versions of your own work. It is not a pass mark, and not a forecast of any hiring outcome.
- P4
Say it aloud before the day
Reading silently hides what a listener notices at once: a long run-up, a missing result, a pause in the wrong place. Rehearse every key answer aloud at least once.
04Practice by round
Know your next round?
Each page lists what to prepare, original sample questions and the tools that help most.
- R01Behavioral
Behavioral interview practice
Sample questions on conflict, failure and ownership, and how to keep each story specific.
- R02Coding
Coding interview practice
Talk through the algorithm while you code, then run your solution in a JavaScript or Python sandbox.
- R03System design
System design interview practice
State your assumptions, start from a simple design and defend each trade-off out loud.
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