Interview Prep Coach

Walk into every interview knowing the company, the people and your stories.

Daily, 7:00 AM · 2 minutes setup

Preview

Interview prep: Northwind AI, Computer Vision Intern

Thursday, Nov 5, 2026, 2:00 PM MT · Technical video call, 45 min · Join
With: Mira Shah, Research Engineer, Vision (works on aerial imaging models)

The role in one paragraph

Build and run evaluations for Northwind's aerial images, write analysis code in Python, and turn results into short reports for the research team.

Your stories, matched

They want	Tell this story
Computer vision	Campus robotics club: cut a vision pipeline's latency 30%
Large data processing	The same club project: batched a folder of field photos through that pipeline
Clear communication	Weekend hackathon app: demoed it and wrote the one-page README for the judges

Likely questions

Technical

How would you check that a benchmark isn't contaminated by training data?
Write a function to compute exact-match and F1 over model outputs.

Behavioral

Tell me about a result that surprised you.

Be ready for

No production RLHF experience: say what you know and how you'd ramp up.

Ask them

What does a good first month look like for an intern on the vision team?
How do you decide when a benchmark is "done"?

Practice

Two-pointer string matching, medium
Top-k with a heap, medium

Install

Daily, 7:00 AM · 2 minutes setup

Verified steps

1
Copy the install prompt
2
Paste it into a chat with Grok Bot
3
Say “Run Interview Prep Coach.”

Download Interview Prep Coach (.zip)

A folder with SKILL.md, for tools that accept skill uploads.

Setup steps and prompt

Copy skills/interview-prep-coach/SKILL.md (the whole file, including the --- header).
Open a one-to-one chat with your Grok Bot and paste the prompt below, with the file where it says.
When the Bot asks, connect: Google Calendar or Outlook (required), Gmail or Outlook (required, to read invites), Google Docs or Notion (optional). It shows a connect card right in the chat.
Try it once now: "Run Interview Prep Coach."
The routine shows in the Bot's info pane (click the Bot's name in the chat header) under Routines, where you can pause or edit it.

Prompt for Grok Bot

Save the following as a skill called "Interview Prep Coach". Then create a routine called "Interview invite check" that runs it every day at 7:00 AM and posts the result here. Before the first run, ask me the setup questions in the skill and remember my answers.

<paste SKILL.md here>

Copy pastes in the full SKILL.md for you.

Skills and routines are saved by asking the Bot; no settings to dig through.

Checked Oct 31, 2026: instructions only, no scripts, no runtime downloads. SHA-256 316665e4b74f…

What it accesses

Writes or sends

Read-only.

Reads

Calendar invites and interview emails
The application you sent (posting, resume version, answers)
Public professional info about the company and interviewers

Cost

Light

A daily check (~30 a month) that does real work only when an invite arrives.

Before you install

Drafts only: nothing is submitted, applied for, or sent without your explicit OK.
Interviewer research stays professional and public.
Briefs include private application details; keep them in your private chat.

What you get

4 things · Company and interviewer research

Company and interviewer research
Your stories mapped to the role
Likely questions
Mock round with feedback

Make it yours

2 settings · Practice style, Brief timing

Practice style

Brief only
Mock questions with feedback (default)

Brief timing

Same day
1 day before
2 days before (default)

Defaults are highlighted. It asks once on the first run.

Data sources

2 required, 1 optional · Google Calendar or Outlook, Gmail or Outlook…

Google Calendar or Outlook
Gmail or Outlook (invites) · optional
Web search

About

Interview Prep Coach watches for interview invites and gets you ready.

Interview Prep Coach watches for interview invites and gets you ready. It researches the company and your interviewers, maps the role's must-haves to your own stories, predicts likely questions, and runs a mock round with honest feedback.