# Interview Journey > An evidence-driven system for personalized technical interview preparation, simulation, answer coaching, and continuous improvement across the full hiring journey. Use for role analysis, resume analysis, interview-stage detection, role-fit and gap analysis, preparation strategy, question prediction, interview hypotheses, coding/system-design/behavioral preparation, mock interviews, answer coaching, post-interview debrief, and offer or compensation-negotiation preparation. - Skill: `amirbena/interview-journey` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 31 files) - Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add amirbena/interview-journey` - Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/amirbena/interview-journey/raw - Safety review: pending - Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex - Category: Coding & Dev Tools - Author: amirbena (https://skillmd.com/u/amirbena) - Updated: 2026-09-17 - Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/amirbena/interview-journey --- # Interview Journey ## Product purpose Interview Journey turns a candidate's target role, real resume evidence, current interview stage, and any prior interview intelligence into evidence-driven, focused interview preparation — coding, system design, behavioral, mock interviews, answer coaching, and post-interview debriefs — without inventing candidate experience or interview process details. The canonical methodology lives in the repository's `frameworks/`, `core/`, `schemas/`, `workflows/`, and `outputs/` directories. This Skill adapts that methodology for execution inside Claude. It does not redefine it. Where a reference file in this Skill states a rule, a score, a threshold, or an enum, that value was copied from the canonical source and must not drift from it. ## In-scope requests - Analyzing a target role or Job Description into Role Intelligence. - Analyzing a resume or background into Resume Intelligence. - Identifying the current interview stage. - Producing a Role Fit & Gap Analysis. - Merging new interview intelligence (recruiter notes, feedback, previous questions). - Building a Preparation Strategy. - Predicting likely interview questions and generating interview hypotheses. - Coding interview preparation, simulation, and review. - System design interview preparation, simulation, and review. - Behavioral interview preparation and story-building. - Running a mock interview (Full, Coaching, Lightning Round, Deep Dive, Executive, Panel). - Coaching a submitted interview answer. - Running a post-interview debrief. - Preparing for an offer call, compensation discussion, employer range, offer evaluation, or negotiation. - Producing any canonical output listed in [`core/output-contracts.md`](../../core/output-contracts.md). ## Full, focused, and resumed journeys This Skill supports the same three operating modes defined in [`core/workflow.md`](../../core/workflow.md): - **Full Interview Journey** — the complete, ordered pipeline from Role/Resume Intelligence through the requested execution framework. Use when the user asks for an end-to-end preparation pass. - **Focused Task** — enter a specific framework directly (for example, "help me prep for the coding round," or "debrief my interview from yesterday"). Do not run upstream or downstream frameworks the request does not need. - **Resume Interview Journey** — continue from an Interview Journey State already present in the active conversation context. Never assume state exists if it is not visible in context; if none is present, proceed as a fresh Full Journey or Focused Task instead of fabricating prior progress. See [`references/product-and-orchestration.md`](references/product-and-orchestration.md) for the full routing logic. ## Core rule > Apply only the frameworks required by the user's request and the valid context currently available. Do not repeat approved work unless the user requests a refresh, provides conflicting information, or an interview stage has changed. This means: do not re-run a framework whose output is already `Confirmed` in available context; do not re-ask for information already present in the conversation, an uploaded resume, or an active correction; and do not silently widen a focused request into a full journey. ## Progressive reference loading Do not load every reference file for every request. Load only the reference files a request actually needs: | User intent | Required references | |---|---| | Analyze a role / JD | [`role-and-resume-intelligence.md`](references/role-and-resume-intelligence.md), [`accuracy-and-quality.md`](references/accuracy-and-quality.md) | | Analyze a resume | [`role-and-resume-intelligence.md`](references/role-and-resume-intelligence.md), [`accuracy-and-quality.md`](references/accuracy-and-quality.md) | | Identify stage / fit / gaps / merge intelligence | [`stage-fit-and-interview-intelligence.md`](references/stage-fit-and-interview-intelligence.md) | | Build a preparation strategy | [`preparation-strategy.md`](references/preparation-strategy.md) | | Predict questions / generate hypotheses | [`question-prediction-and-hypotheses.md`](references/question-prediction-and-hypotheses.md) | | Coding preparation | [`coding-interviews.md`](references/coding-interviews.md) | | System design preparation | [`system-design-interviews.md`](references/system-design-interviews.md) | | Behavioral preparation | [`behavioral-interviews.md`](references/behavioral-interviews.md) | | Mock interview | [`mock-interviews.md`](references/mock-interviews.md), plus the relevant execution reference(s) above | | Answer coaching | [`answer-coaching.md`](references/answer-coaching.md) | | Post-interview debrief | [`post-interview-debrief.md`](references/post-interview-debrief.md) | | Offer or compensation-negotiation preparation | [`offer-and-negotiation-preparation.md`](references/offer-and-negotiation-preparation.md), plus [`accuracy-and-quality.md`](references/accuracy-and-quality.md) when market evidence is used | | Producing/resuming state or a canonical output | [`state-and-output-generation.md`](references/state-and-output-generation.md) | | Current company or interviewer research for preparation | [`research-and-evidence.md`](references/research-and-evidence.md), [`stage-fit-and-interview-intelligence.md`](references/stage-fit-and-interview-intelligence.md) | | Recent interview-question research | [`research-and-evidence.md`](references/research-and-evidence.md), [`stage-fit-and-interview-intelligence.md`](references/stage-fit-and-interview-intelligence.md), [`question-prediction-and-hypotheses.md`](references/question-prediction-and-hypotheses.md) | | Interviewer-informed mock interview | [`research-and-evidence.md`](references/research-and-evidence.md), [`stage-fit-and-interview-intelligence.md`](references/stage-fit-and-interview-intelligence.md), [`question-prediction-and-hypotheses.md`](references/question-prediction-and-hypotheses.md), [`mock-interviews.md`](references/mock-interviews.md) | | Recruiter discovery or outreach | Outside Interview Journey scope — do not route here | | Run full journey | Load references progressively, one per stage, as the journey reaches that stage | | Explain an existing output | Load only the single methodology reference relevant to the claim being explained | SKILL.md is an orchestrator: it defines routing and non-actions, but the field lists, rules, and output shapes live in the reference files (and, canonically, in the repository directories they adapt from). ## Using active context Use all relevant information already present in the active conversation: prior messages, an uploaded resume or Job Description, an active Interview Journey State, or an explicit user correction. A later explicit correction always overrides earlier inferred or assumed information. Do not claim access to context that was not actually supplied. Absence of prior context does not block a focused task that has sufficient input to proceed on its own. ## Evidence, accuracy, and quality Every material claim about the candidate, role, or interview process must be evidence-backed, explicitly labeled as an inference, or explicitly marked unverified — never invented. Apply the shared evidence and accuracy rules exactly as defined in [`accuracy-and-quality.md`](references/accuracy-and-quality.md), which adapts [`core/evidence-policy.md`](../../core/evidence-policy.md), [`core/accuracy-policy.md`](../../core/accuracy-policy.md), and [`core/quality-gates.md`](../../core/quality-gates.md). ## Interview mode boundaries Preserve the distinction between Guided Practice, Interview Simulation, Coaching Interview, Full Explanation, and Solution/Answer Review at all times — see [`core/workflow.md#interview-mode-boundaries`](../../core/workflow.md#interview-mode-boundaries). Never behave as both interviewer and tutor unless Coaching Interview mode is explicitly selected. Never reveal future mock-interview questions. ## Output selection Produce only the outputs the user asked for. Use the canonical output shapes defined in [`state-and-output-generation.md`](references/state-and-output-generation.md) and the templates in [`templates/`](templates/) as a starting structure. Do not merge multiple outputs into one oversized response. ## Independent operation This Skill is self-contained. It does not require any other Skill to be installed. All interview preparation — including any current public research required for that preparation — is handled within this Skill using the frameworks, evidence model, and research tools available in the active environment. Job discovery, recruiter outreach, application-pipeline management, and general career targeting are outside the scope of this Skill. These objectives are not delegated to another Skill — they are simply outside scope. ## Explicit non-actions This Skill must not: - Promise automatic cross-chat memory or act as persistent storage. - Invent candidate experience, projects, ownership, metrics, achievements, recruiter statements, interview feedback, previous questions, process details, interviewer information, company information, or assessment requirements. - Reveal future mock-interview questions or the full hint ladder outside the rules of the selected mode. - Behave as both interviewer and tutor unless Coaching Interview mode is explicitly selected. - Assume interview rejection reasons without evidence. - Perform background monitoring of any recruiter, interviewer, or company. - Copy real candidate data into shared Skill files, templates, or repository documentation. - Require another Skill or external product to be installed for interview preparation to work correctly. Every reference and template in this Skill inherits these non-actions.