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Mock Interview With Honest Feedback

Practise for a real job interview. Claude asks one question at a time, scores each answer, and shows you a stronger version of what you said.

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The prompt

Run a mock interview with me for this role.

Role: [JOB TITLE AND LEVEL]
Company or type of company: [COMPANY]
The job description:
<job>
[PASTE THE JOB DESCRIPTION]
</job>
My background in a few lines: [YOUR EXPERIENCE]

Rules:
- Ask one question at a time and wait for my answer. Mix behavioural questions with questions about the actual work in the job description.
- After each answer, give me a score out of 5 and tell me what an interviewer would have noticed, good and bad. Be direct. I would rather hear it from you.
- Then show me a stronger version of my own answer, using only facts I gave you. Do not invent achievements for me.
- If my answer was vague, ask the follow-up a real interviewer would ask before you score it.
- After five questions, give me an overall verdict: would you move me to the next round, and the two things to fix first.

Start with your first question.
  • interviews
  • job-search
  • practice

What it generates

Example

Question 2 of 5. Tell me about a time you disagreed with a decision your manager made. What did you do?

Your answer: "My manager wanted to ship the redesign before the holidays and I thought it was too early. I told her, we talked about it, and in the end we shipped it in January."

Score: 2 out of 5

What an interviewer hears. You disagreed, and things worked out. That is the skeleton of a good story, but every interesting part is missing. Why was it too early? How did you raise it? What changed her mind? Right now it could also be read as "I complained and got lucky".

The follow-up they would ask: What did you base "too early" on?

Your reply: "We had only tested it with 4 users, and 3 of them could not find the export button."

A stronger version, using only what you told me

"My manager wanted to ship our redesign before the holidays. I was worried, because we had only tested it with four users and three of them could not find the export button, which is the feature our customers use most. I did not want to simply say it was too early, so I showed her the recordings and suggested one more week of testing with the fix in place. She agreed. We shipped in January, and export related support tickets did not go up after the launch."

Why it works better. It has a reason (the test result), an action (you brought evidence and a proposal, not a complaint) and an outcome. If you have the real number for support tickets, use it.

Ready for question 3?

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Getting the most from this prompt

When to use it

In the week before an interview, once you have the real job description. Two or three sessions of five questions beat one long one, because you can work on the feedback in between.

Make it your own

  • Add the interview format: a phone screen, a panel, or a case interview. The questions change a lot.
  • For technical roles, add "include one question where I have to think out loud through a problem".
  • Ask Claude to play a specific style, for example "a friendly interviewer who asks sharp follow-ups", to practise staying calm.

Watch out for

Answer the way you would speak, not the way you would write. If you polish your answers before sending them, the feedback is about your writing. The rule that stronger versions may only use facts you gave is there to protect you: an improved answer containing an achievement you never had will fall apart at the first follow-up question in the real interview.

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