Interview Setup: resume, role and answer style

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   Step 1: Open the ⋮ menu on the overlay toolbar

   Click the ⋮ button at the right end of the toolbar (its tooltip reads Quick Settings). The menu lists Settings, Interview Setup, Subscription, Interview History and Close App.

   

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   Step 2: Click Interview Setup

   The dialog opens with a section list on the left (Your resume, This interview, Coding rounds, How the AI answers, About you, Behavioral stories) and the form on the right. Click a section name to jump to it; the list highlights the section you are scrolled to. A green tick next to a section means it is filled in; an amber dot means it still needs something before you can start.

   

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   Step 3: Upload it

   Click Choose file in the Upload your resume box. The box accepts PDF, DOC, DOCX or TXT up to 10 MB; anything else is refused with Please upload a PDF, DOC, DOCX, or TXT file, and a larger file with File size must be less than 10MB. The text is extracted on your computer, and a toast confirms Resume Uploaded. The box then turns green and shows the file name followed by uploaded and Parsed and ready — the AI will answer using it.

   • Use the resume you actually sent for this role. The AI treats it as the truth about your history and will not invent employers, dates or numbers that are not in it.
   • A plain, text-based PDF or a DOCX parses best. A scanned image saved as PDF has no text to extract; export a text version instead.
   • Long resumes are trimmed to the first 6,000 characters of extracted text, so keep the most relevant experience near the top.
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   Step 4: Replace or remove it

   Replace lets you pick a different file. The new resume fully replaces the previous one everywhere, in memory and on disk, and the very next answer is written from the new one; nothing from the old resume lingers. Remove deletes the stored resume and the header pill drops back to Not ready — add resume; you will be asked for one again before your next live or coding session.

   Sharing a computer?

   The resume lives on the device, not just in your account. If someone else used the app on this machine, open Interview Setup and Replace it with your own resume before you start, otherwise the AI will answer as them.
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   Step 5: What happens if you start without one

   Clicking Start in Live or Code mode with no resume opens a Resume Upload dialog (Upload Your Resume (Required), Supports PDF, DOC, DOCX, TXT (max 10MB) - Processed locally). Choose a file there and the session continues. It is the same store as Interview Setup, so a resume uploaded in either place shows up in both.

   

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   Step 6: Interview category, then Specific domain

   Pick Interview category first (Software Development, Cloud Computing & Infrastructure, Data Science & AI and so on); the hint says Pick the field first — it unlocks the domain list. Specific domain stays greyed out with Choose a category first until you do, then lists the domains for that field. As the hint puts it, The AI tailors terminology and depth to this. A data-engineering domain gets pipelines and warehouses; a cloud domain gets IAM, networking and cost. Both are required before you can start.

   Also set from the overlay

   The first time you click Live, an Interview Domain Selection dialog asks the same two questions. Whichever place you answer them, the other one shows the same choice.
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   Step 7: Job description (optional)

   Paste the posting into Job description; the counter shows how much of the 4,000-character limit you have used. The hint explains the effect: Paste the job description. Answers will speak this role's language and prioritise its tools — including ones not on your resume. In practice the AI uses the posting's vocabulary, leans on the tools, platforms and responsibilities it names, and when a question could go several ways, picks the angle this role cares about.

   • Paste the requirements and responsibilities; you can skip the benefits and boilerplate to stay within the limit.
   • Keep it current. A job description from last week's interview will steer this week's answers.
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   Step 8: Present this role's skills as hands-on experience

   This toggle decides what the AI does when the posting asks for a skill your resume does not mention. The on-screen description reads: Off: skills missing from your resume are explained, not claimed. On: they're answered as work you've done — never with invented employers, dates or numbers.

   • Off (the default): the AI explains that skill confidently from fundamentals and relates it to the closest thing you have really done, without saying you lack experience and without inventing a history.
   • On: the AI answers about every skill, tool and product in the job description as if you have used it in real work, first person and concrete. It still never invents named employers, dates, team sizes or exact metrics that are not on your resume.

   Only turn it on if you can back it up

   The toggle changes how confidently the AI talks about a skill, not what you know. Use it only for postings where you could defend those claims under real follow-up questions.
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   Step 9: Your instructions (optional)

   One box, up to 1,000 characters, for Anything the AI should know or do — what to emphasise, what to avoid, who the interviewer is. The placeholder gives the idea: e.g. Emphasise my platform migration work; keep answers under 40 words; the interviewer is the CTO. Instructions override the general style settings below, but never the honesty rules about your history.

   • Language and length: "answer in British English", "keep every answer under 45 seconds".
   • Emphasis: "lead with my Kubernetes migration whenever infrastructure comes up".
   • Context: "this is a second-round panel with the hiring manager and two engineers".
   • Avoidance: "do not mention my current employer by name".

   Had text in two places before?

   Earlier versions had a Your instructions box in Settings and a separate Custom instructions box in the profile. They are now one field. Existing text is carried over automatically, and the hint says: Carried over from your profile's old “Custom instructions” — the two fields are now one. Saving keeps it here.

When you press Start in Code mode, the Coding Interview Setup dialog shows Round Type and Programming Language with these values already selected. Changing them there writes the change back here, so the two never disagree. Neither field is required to start a live (spoken) interview.

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   Step 10: Save

   Click Save in the footer. A toast confirms Interview setup saved with the note The AI will use these settings in your next interview. Cancel closes without saving your edits, except the resume, which is stored the moment it is uploaded.

   • Changes take effect from your next answer. An answer already on screen is not rewritten.
   • The job description, instructions and profile are stored on your device, not uploaded as documents. Only a summary (whether a job description or instructions were present, and their length) is kept with any interview history you choose to save to your account.
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   Step 11: Reset profile

   The small Reset profile link at the bottom left clears About you and Behavioral stories after a confirmation: Reset your profile? Name, role, skills, achievements and behavioral stories will be cleared. Your resume and interview settings are kept. Use Remove in the resume section if you want the resume gone too.

Recent questions and answers are passed to the AI word for word. Older exchanges are folded into a compact running note of what has already been discussed, so the AI remembers the whole interview, not just the last five questions. If you named a tool, a project or a number in your third answer, the tenth answer will not contradict it, and when the interviewer refers back ("you mentioned earlier that...") the AI builds on what it said before. The note is cleared when you end the session or press ⌘/Ctrl + R for a fresh transcript.