interview-prep
Post-#489 the interview-prep mode splits by interview round type: recruiter screen, hiring manager, peer technical, and panel. Each variant produces a focused prep doc with likely questions, talking points, and STAR-format stories from your profile.
What it does
interview-prep reads the company context (ideally already enriched via deep mode), the JD, and your profile, then produces a prep document scoped to a specific round type. The doc covers expected question patterns, talking points specific to your background, and pre-written STAR stories you can adapt live.
When to use it
Use interview-prep the night before each round. The recruiter-screen variant covers comp negotiation prep. The hiring-manager variant focuses on role fit. The peer-technical variant focuses on architecture/coding questions. The panel variant covers leadership signals. For deliberate, round-by-round drills, career-ops also ships focused plan, practice, and debrief interview modes — see the interview modes guide.
What a run looks like
You name the company and role, and the mode returns one interview intel report scoped to the rounds that company actually runs. It researches the process, classifies each round by audience — recruiter screen, hiring manager, peer-technical, or panel — and drafts likely questions, tagging every one with a source citation or an [inferred from JD] label.
/career-ops interview-prep Anthropic "Applied AI Engineer"# Interview Intel: Anthropic — Applied AI Engineer
**Legitimacy:** High Confidence
**Researched:** 2026-05-18
**Sources:** 12 Glassdoor reviews, 4 Blind posts, 3 other
**Audiences covered:** recruiter-screen, hiring-manager, peer-tech
## Process Overview
- Rounds: 4 rounds, ~18 days end-to-end
- Difficulty: 3.5/5 (Glassdoor avg, 12 reviews)
- Known quirks: pair programming, not whiteboard
## Likely Questions — recruiter-screen
- "Why are you looking, and why us?" — 60-90s, anchored to your narrative
- Comp expectation — defer to the band if leverage is thin
- Location / visa / notice period — numbers, not vibesThe report also maps stories from your story-bank.md to each likely question and flags the gaps where you have no story prepared yet.
When to reach for it
Reach for interview-prep once a round is scheduled and you want a working document instead of generic advice. A few things sharpen the output:
- Run
ofertaordeepagainst the company first. The prep reads the evaluation report for archetype, gaps, and matched proof points, so more context yields more specific questions. - Paste the interviewers' names or the schedule when you have them. For a panel, the mode builds a per-interviewer read and drafts one tailored closing question for each slot.
- Trust the tags: sourced questions cite Glassdoor or Blind, inferred ones carry
[inferred from JD]. The mode never invents a question and attributes it to a candidate.
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