AI interview prep genuinely works best as a practice partner and research tool, not as something to lean on during the actual interview itself.
Paste in the job description and ask what specific skills it seems to prioritize, or what kinds of questions are typical for a role like this. This kind of research-heavy task is exactly where AI assistance is genuinely strong.
Ask the AI to play interviewer and ask you questions one at a time, then answer out loud before checking its feedback. This builds actual practice articulating your answer under mild pressure, which reading a pre-written answer doesn’t.
Paste in your own draft answer to a common question and ask for specific feedback, what’s vague, what’s missing, rather than asking it to write the answer from scratch. Keeps the answer genuinely yours while improving it.
Never use it live during an actual interview, most interviewers can tell when an answer sounds read rather than spoken naturally, and getting caught undermines trust far more than an imperfect but authentic answer would. See our prompt engineering guide for more on getting useful feedback.
See Anthropic’s own prompt engineering documentation for more depth.
