Act as a mock interviewer for a specific role
Reading interview questions and answering them under real pressure, one at a time with no rewind, are completely different kinds of practice.
- Use it for
- Anyone preparing for an interview who wants realistic practice, not just a list of questions to read through.
Reading through a list of common interview questions and thinking about how you'd answer them feels like preparation, but it skips the part that actually matters — answering under real conditions, one question at a time, without the chance to draft and redraft before committing to an answer. This prompt runs a real mock interview: one question asked at a time, waiting for your actual answer, then giving specific feedback before moving on.
When not to use this
If you just want a reference list of likely questions to think about in advance, this back-and-forth format is more than you need — ask for a list directly instead.
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Act as an interviewer for a {{role}} position at a {{company_type}}
company. Ask me one interview question at a time — a mix of
behavioral and role-specific questions. Wait for my answer before
asking the next one, and after each answer, give me specific,
honest feedback on what was strong and what was weak before moving
on.Why it works
Requiring one question at a time with real feedback before the next, rather than a batch of questions to think about, is what actually simulates interview pressure — the value of mock interview practice is in producing an answer on the spot and learning from its specific weaknesses, not in reading a list and imagining how you'd respond.
Common mistakes
- ×Requesting a batch of questions upfront instead of a real one-at-a-time interview format.
- ×Skipping past weak feedback instead of actually revising the answer before moving to the next question.
Follow-ups
- That question caught me off guard — let's do it again, and this time give me a harder follow-up if my answer is weak.
- Give me a summary of the patterns in my weak answers across this whole session.
Did this work?
You answered real questions under the same kind of pressure as a real interview — one question at a time, no rewriting your answer after the fact — and got specific feedback on where an answer was weak.
Tested on claude-opus-5. Evidence status is draft; it moves to battle-tested only on recorded runs, never by hand.