Paste once, reuse
A description is saved with its company and role, and any session can use it — practice or live, this week or next month.
Job description context
The same question wants a different answer for a different job.
“Tell me about a system you designed” means one thing to a platform team and another to a product team. With the actual description in front of it, an answer leans the right way without you steering it mid-sentence.
1 credit to analyse one against your CV.
Where it lives
A library, not a text box
Before this, a job description was typed into the session form, used once, and gone. Anyone interviewing for the same role at four companies typed it four times.
The session keeps its own copy
What a session ran with is recorded on the session. Editing the library entry later does not rewrite the history of an interview that used the old text.
Editing clears the analysis
Change the text and the old breakdown is discarded rather than left to look current. Re-analysing takes one credit.
The analysis
What a breakdown actually contains
Produced once per description and kept against it, so the cost is per role rather than per interview.
| Part | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Required skills, by category | Languages, platforms, practices, domain — so you can see the shape of the role rather than a flat list of twenty bullets. |
| Nice-to-haves | Separated out, because a missing requirement needs a prepared answer and a missing nice-to-have needs a shrug. |
| Focus areas | What the description keeps coming back to. Usually the team's current problem, and usually where the hard questions are. |
| Gaps against your CV | Requirement by requirement: met, nearly met, not met. The middle column is your preparation list. |
| Likely questions | A bank of the questions this description invites — material for a mock interview, and a reality check on what you can answer. |
During the call
What the description does to a live answer
Three effects, all of them invisible when they work.
Vocabulary
If the description says “ARR” and your CV says “annual revenue”, the answer says ARR. Speaking the interviewer's language is half of sounding like a fit.
Emphasis
The same project described two ways. For an operations role the answer foregrounds the plan and the fallback; for a commercial role, what it did for the customer.
Seniority
A description full of “own”, “set direction” and “mentor” shifts answers towards decisions and trade-offs rather than implementation detail.
Questions
About job description context
Why does the job description change the answer?
Because the same question wants different answers for different roles. “Tell me about a system you designed” from a platform team wants the operational story; from a product team it wants the user-facing one. With the description in front of it, the answer leans the right way without you having to steer it mid-sentence.
Do I paste it in for every session?
No. Descriptions live in a library on your account: paste it once and reuse it across every session for that role, practice or live. Interviewing for the same kind of job at four companies is the normal case, not the exception.
What does analysing one give me?
Required skills broken out by category, the nice-to-haves separated from the requirements, where your CV is thin against them, and a bank of the questions the description invites. It is stored against the job, so it is done once per role rather than once per interview.
What happens if I edit the description afterwards?
The analysis is cleared, on purpose. A breakdown of a description that is no longer the description is worse than having none, because it reads as current. Re-analyse and you have an accurate one again.
If I edit it, do my old sessions change?
No. Each session keeps its own copy of the text it actually ran with. A session is a record of what happened, and quietly rewriting the job description of an interview you already sat would make that record useless.
How much of the description is sent?
A trimmed version, against a fixed budget, the same way your CV is. A description padded with benefits, legal boilerplate and company history contributes nothing to an answer and would cost time to read.
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