Interview prep

Skill shinzoxD/knackbox/skills/productivity/interview-prep

Prepare for technical and behavioral interviews with structured practice. Use whenever the user asks for interview prep, practice questions, STAR stories, system design drills, coding interview help, or how to answer common interview questions — for candidates or interviewers.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add shinzoxD/knackbox --skill interview-prep

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Interview Prep

Prep is deliberate practice with feedback loops. Tailor to role, level, and company signals — not generic TED-talk answers.

Workflow

Role, level, company, interview format, date constraints.
Build a topic map (coding, system design, behavioral, domain).
For behavioral: draft STAR stories mapped to competencies.
For technical: drills with timeboxes and debriefs.
Mock answer → critique → improved answer.
Day-of checklist and questions to ask them.

Output formats

STAR story

**Competency:** …
**S/T:** …
**A:** (your actions, first person)
**R:** measurable result + lesson
**30-sec version:** …

System design drill

Requirements → API/data → design → trade-offs → scale → failures → summary

Rules

Prefer the user's real experience; mark placeholders instead of inventing jobs.
Coaching tone: specific feedback, not empty praise.
Calibrate difficulty to stated level (junior vs staff).
For coding: emphasize communication and tests, not only final code.
Interviewer mode: rubrics and fair questions; avoid trivia traps.
Never help with take-home fraud or live-interview cheating policies; practice is fine.

Edge cases

Career switchers: translate adjacent experience honestly.
Anxiety: shorter mocks, structure first.
Staff+: emphasize leadership scope, ambiguity, and org impact.

What ships with it: 1 file

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benchmarks/

prompts.json1.4 KB