Now available as an official Alexa Skill! This Amazon Echo Alexa skill is your best way to prepare yourself for interviewing for all kinds of roles. Interview Prep has more than one hundred questions for a variety of different job types and areas of work. For best results, ask Interview Prep a few questions every day to prepare your answers. Consider answering directly into a mirror and focusing not only on your answer, but also your body language!
Note - The skill is no longer powered by the code in this demo. It has since been updated with new features and bugfixes!
You can add this skill to your Amazon Echo device in two ways:
- Ask Alexa to install the skill for you: "Alexa, add the Interview Prep skill."
- Navigate to the Alexa Skills page in your Alexa App and add the Interview Prep skill
User: "Alexa, Ask Interview Prep for a question"
Alexa: "How would you go about establishing your credibility quickly with the team?"
User: "Alexa, Tell Interview Prep to give me an interview question"
Alexa: "Tell me about a time when you had to give someone difficult feedback. How did you handle it?"
User: "Alexa, Ask Interview Prep for a technical question"
Alexa: "How would you implement bubble sort?"
User: "Alexa, Tell Interview Prep to give me a salary question"
Alexa: "What salary range would you require to take this job?"
User: "Alexa, Ask Interview Prep for a question from Amazon"
Alexa: "How would you introduce AWS in an elevator pitch?"
User: "Alexa, Ask Interview Prep for a technical question from Microsoft"
Alexa: "How would you find if there is a cycle in a directed graph?"
User: "Alexa, Ask Interview Prep for an interview tip."
Alexa: "Dress for success. Plan out a wardrobe that fits the organization and its culture,
striving for the most professional appearance you can accomplish."
User: "Alexa, Ask Interview Prep for help."
Alexa: "You can say, 'Ask Interview Prep for a question.' You can also specify a type of question,
or a question for a specific company, like this, 'Ask Interview Prep for a technical
question from Amazon.'"
User: "Alexa, Ask Interview Prep how many technical questions you have."
Alexa: "I have 45 questions like that."
User: "Alexa, Ask Interview Prep what types of questions you have."
Alexa: "You can ask for 'general', 'technical', 'salary', 'behavioral', 'career', and 'personal'
questions. If you don't specify a type, I will pick one at random."
User: "Alexa, Ask Interview Prep what companies you have questions for."
Alexa: "You can ask for questions from 'Amazon', 'Microsoft', or 'Google'. If you don't specify a
company, I will pick one at random."
Have any interview questions that you want included in the Alexa Skill? To submit more interview questions for the skill, submit a pull request, modifying the questions array to include your new question. Be sure to include the following:
- Interview question
- Type of question (see
slotQuestionType.txtfor all types) - Company which the question relates to (optional)
- Source of the question
If your question is approved, your name will be added to the Contributions section, below (Unless, of course, you would rather be anonymous!).
- Add more tips and questions
- Include Brain teasers
- Improve question tagging
- Record and save responses for user to hear and learn from
- Provide analytics to responses
- Provide length (in time or word count) of response for reference
- Report number of filler words
- Use machine learning to provide higher level analytics on response content
- Improve conversational interaction
- Offer suggested responses to questions
- Repeat question when users asks
- Improve skill cards
- Include links to question source (not yet possible in Alexa Skills Kit)
- Update Title and subtitle
- Thanks to @cspalding for help with the
getExcludedElementsByTags()function logic!