The standard advice for interview prep is: prepare everything. Read the common questions list. Practice your behavioral answers. Brush up on your technical skills. Know the company. The problem with this approach is that "everything" is infinite, and most of what you prepare for won't come
Every interviewer does the same thing before you walk in: they read your resume. They look at your timeline, your role titles, your notable projects, and they form a set of questions. Not generic questions — questions specific to you. "I see you led the migration from monolith to microservices
Deliberate practice with AI feedback is more effective than any other interview prep method. Here's how AI mock interviews work and who benefits most.
You've done this before. You prep for a week, read through the "top 50 behavioral questions," and feel reasonably ready. Then the interviewer asks, "Tell me about a time you dealt with conflict on your team" — and you either freeze or ramble for four