New here? Start with the full interview prep guide. If you have an interview coming up, this guide walks you through the basics Neil uses with coaching clients: reading the job description, mapping your resume to the role, building a story bank, practicing out loud, preparing smart questions, and getting feedback before the real interview….
Confidence in interviews isn’t a personality trait. It’s a state you can build deliberately, in 60 minutes, before the meeting starts. Here’s the routine that works.
Rambling is the single most common technical problem in interviews. It’s also one of the most fixable. Here’s why it happens, the three places it starts, and the 90-second rule that stops it.
If you’ve been interviewing for months and keep getting “we went with another candidate,” you’re not unlucky. You’re stuck in the most diagnosable pattern in job searching. Here are the four reasons it’s happening.
LA tech is its own ecosystem. The interviews look different than Bay Area or NYC. Here’s what’s specific about prepping for Snap, Riot, ServiceTitan, Hulu, and Disney.
Same school, same GPA, same firm — different outcomes at Goldman. The candidates who got offers answered three specific questions differently. Here’s how.
The fastest red flag in any interview is when your story doesn’t match your resume. Most candidates don’t realize this is happening. Here’s the 30-minute audit that prevents it.
Interviewers don’t evaluate the challenge itself — they evaluate three things about it. Here’s the right size of challenge to pick, the “actually did” trap to avoid, and how to frame a failed initiative as a win.
STAR was the gold standard for behavioral interviewing in 2005. It produces robotic answers in 2026. Here’s the replacement framework: Stakes, Friction, Action, What Changed.
Most MMI candidates over-prep the wrong things. Here’s the six-week plan that actually develops the skills evaluators score on.