What this prompt does
This prompt converts your real project history into tight, deliverable STAR-format behavioural interview answers. It casts the model as a senior engineering interviewer and coach, then asks for six things per question: a 60-90 second answer split into Situation, Task, Action, and Result; quantified outcomes drawn only from your background; a natural spoken tone; the hardest likely follow-up with a one-line reply; a hook opener; and a reusable story bank mapping each story to other questions it can answer.
Four variables tailor the answers. [company_type] and [role] calibrate the seniority and signals the answers should hit. [questions] lists exactly which behavioural prompts to prep. [background] is the raw material — your resume bullets — that every Result is built from. The prompt is strict that metrics come only from your real experience and flags anywhere you need to fill in a number, because an invented metric gets exposed instantly by a sharp follow-up. The spoken-tone requirement, with contractions allowed and corporate filler banned, keeps the answers from sounding like a memorized essay when you deliver them out loud.
When to use it
- You have a behavioural loop coming up and want polished, spoken-ready stories
- Your answers ramble into setup and you need tighter STAR structure
- You want a hook opener so you stop burying the lede
- You need to anticipate the hardest follow-up for each story
- You want one story bank that maps stories to multiple questions
- You're prepping for a specific
[company_type]and[role]and want calibrated signal
Example output
For each question you get a STAR answer scoped to 60-90 seconds, the single hardest follow-up an interviewer would ask with a one-line response, and a hook opener to anchor the story. After the individual answers comes a story-bank mapping table showing which stories can cover which other questions, so you walk into the room with a flexible, reusable set rather than memorized scripts.
Pro tips
- Treat the quantified-outcomes step as non-negotiable; pull every number from
[background]and never invent one, because a follow-up will expose it instantly - Paste real, detailed resume bullets into
[background]— the richer the input, the more concrete the Result section - Set
[company_type]and[role]accurately so the answers hit the right seniority signals instead of generic ones - Use the hook opener to avoid rambling into the setup; lead with the outcome or tension
- Rehearse out loud and time yourself; a 90-second answer on paper often runs long when spoken
- Lean on the story bank so a few strong stories flex across many
[questions]instead of memorizing a separate script for each - Prepare the hardest follow-up answer as carefully as the main story, since that is usually where a rehearsed candidate gets caught off guard
