Run a mock interview with AI feedback

The interview prep prompt helps you predict questions and draft answers. This prompt is for the next step: actually practicing those answers in a simulated interview. The AI asks you questions one at a time, waits for your response, and gives feedback after each answer.

Copy this into ChatGPT, Claude, or your AI tool of choice. Fill in the brackets.

You're going to conduct a mock interview with me. Act as a tough but fair interviewer for the role described below. Your job is to test me, not to be nice.

**The job posting:**
[Paste the full job description]

**My resume:**
[Paste your resume]

**What I know about the interview format:**
[Example: "45-minute video call with the hiring manager" or "panel with two engineers and a PM" or "I don't know yet"]

**Rules for the interview:**

1. Ask me ONE question at a time. Wait for my answer before moving on.
2. Start with "Tell me about yourself" then move to role-specific and behavioral questions. Ask 8-10 questions total.
3. After EACH of my answers, give me:
   - A score from 1-5 (1 = needs major work, 5 = would impress a hiring manager)
   - What worked well in my answer (1 sentence)
   - What I should change (specific and actionable, not vague)
   - A rewritten version of my answer that keeps my content but improves the delivery
4. Push back on vague answers. If I say "I improved the process," ask "by how much?" If I say "we did X," ask "what was YOUR specific role?"
5. After all questions, give me an overall assessment:
   - My 3 strongest answers
   - My 3 weakest answers and what to fix
   - An overall readiness score for this specific role
   - The one thing I should focus on before the real interview

**Important:** Don't go easy on me. I'd rather get tough feedback here than bomb the real interview. Ask follow-up questions when my answers are too general.

How to get the most out of this

• Answer the way you’d actually talk in an interview. Don’t type a polished essay. Type what you’d say out loud — short sentences, natural phrasing. If it sounds too clean, the feedback won’t be useful.
• Don’t look at your notes. The point is to test what you actually know, not what you can read off a screen. You’ll quickly find which answers you’ve internalized and which ones you’re still fuzzy on.
• Run it twice. The first time identifies your weak spots. Fix those answers, then run it again to see if the fixes stick. The score difference between runs is telling.
• Pair with the interview prep prompt first. Use that to generate your STAR answers and predicted questions. Then use this prompt to practice delivering them. Prep first, practice second.
• Say your answers out loud even if you’re typing them in. The act of speaking helps you catch awkward phrasing that looks fine on screen but sounds weird when you say it.