Interview Setup: everything before the interview

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   Step 1: Open the ⋮ menu on the overlay toolbar

   Click ⋮ at the right end of the toolbar, then Interview Setup.

   

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   Step 2: Work down the sections

   The menu on the left has two groups. Required: Your resume and This interview. Optional: How the AI answers, About you, Behavioral stories, Coding and Audio check. Click a name to jump to it. A green tick means the section is filled in; an amber dot means it still needs something.

   

The example answers were written for this guide. They show the kind of answer each setting produces, not saved output. Real answers depend on your resume, the question and how the interviewer phrases it.

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   Step 1: Upload it

   Click Choose file in the Upload your resume box. PDF, DOC, DOCX and TXT work, up to 10 MB. The text is read on your computer. The box then shows the file name, uploaded, and Parsed and ready with the number of words read.

   • Use the resume you sent for this role. The AI treats it as the truth about your history.
   • A text-based PDF or a DOCX works best. A scanned image has no text to read: if only a few words come through, you see a warning asking for a DOCX or text version.
   • Only the first 6,000 characters are used, so keep your latest role and key skills near the top.
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   Step 2: Check what the AI reads

   Open What the AI reads from your resume under the file name. It shows the exact text the AI gets. Check that names, dates and employers came through correctly.
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   Step 3: Replace or remove it

   Replace picks a different file. The new resume replaces the old one everywhere, from the next answer. Remove deletes it, and the pill goes back to Not ready. If you start an interview with no resume, the app asks you to upload one first.

What happens: The AI uses the employers, projects, tools and results in your resume. It will not claim a company, job title or date that is not in it.

Interview category and Specific domain

Pick Interview category first; it unlocks the Specific domain list. Both are required. There are 25 categories and more than 500 domains, both searchable, covering technical roles and also healthcare, finance, accounting, HR, legal, education, government and visa interviews, and entry-level rounds such as internships. Pick the closest match even if the name is not exactly your job title.

What happens: The AI is told which field the interview is in and uses that field's terms and depth. The same question gets a different angle depending on the domain.

Interviewer asks: How would you handle a sudden spike in traffic?

Interview language

The language your interview is in. English is the default, and you can pick from 61 languages with a search box. The interviewer's speech is transcribed in that language, and every answer comes back in it.

What happens: One language per interview. Languages are never mixed and never guessed: in an English interview where the interviewer says a few words in Hindi, you still get English answers. Technical terms, product names and code keep their usual form. It applies to spoken, typed and screen answers alike.

Job description (optional)

Paste the posting, up to 4,000 characters. The requirements and responsibilities matter most; you can skip the benefits. Replace it for each new role: last week's posting will steer this week's answers.

What happens: Answers speak this role's language. The AI leans on the tools and responsibilities the posting names, and when a question could go several ways, it picks the angle this role cares about.

Interviewer asks: What does good deployment automation look like to you?

This example has Answer beyond my resume switched off, so the answer names the posting's tools without claiming Arjun used them. The next switch decides that.

Answer beyond my resume

A switch under the job description, On by default. It decides what the AI says when a question asks about work your resume does not describe: a feature, a project or a tool.

Interviewer asks: Have you worked with Terraform?

Your instructions (optional)

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. Keep answers to two lines; use simple language, no jargon; the interviewer is the CTO.

What happens: Your instructions apply to every answer. When they set the length or tone, they win over the Style, Length and Tone settings, and the app shows a note under the box saying which settings they now control. They never override the honesty rules or the interview language.

Click Preview this under the box to see an answer written with your instructions, job description and current settings before the interview.

Style, Length and Tone

Interviewer asks: What is a Kubernetes readiness probe?

STAR structure for behavioral answers

Situation, Task, Action, Result, for "tell me about a time..." questions. Off by default. When on, behavioral answers follow that order. Technical questions are not forced into it.

Interviewer asks: Tell me about a time something broke in production.

The labels in brackets are added here to show the structure. The real answer reads as normal speech.

Include metrics and numbers

Off by default. When on, the AI works the real figures from your resume and Key achievements into answers. It does not make numbers up, so it only helps if you have figures on file.

Interviewer asks: What impact did your work have?

Preview an answer

The Preview an answer panel writes an example answer with your current settings and your own resume. Pick a sample question from the chips, change a setting, and the example updates. You get 25 previews each time you open Interview Setup.

Auto-Response

Decides whether an answer starts when you ask for it or by itself when the interviewer finishes a question. Off by default. While it is on, a red note headed Know the trade-offs before you rely on it shows under the switch. The setup wizard shows the same red note when you pick Automatically. From 5.3 this note is red, not amber, and it appears only while answers are set to appear automatically.

Also listen to me

On by default. The app also transcribes your microphone, so follow-up answers build on what you actually said and stay consistent. What you say is never treated as a question. Headphones give the cleanest result. It works in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese interviews. If the app does not have microphone access yet, the row shows Allow microphone.

Recap after each interview

On by default. When you end an interview you get a one-page recap: what was covered, what they dug into, what you told them, and likely next-round questions. See Your interview recap.

About you has four cards: your profile, Questions interviewers ask you, Prepared answers and Memory of previous interviews. The last two have their own sections below.

Questions interviewers ask you

Your notice period, salary expectation or visa status are not on your resume, and a copilot that guesses them is worse than one that says nothing. Write them here once, and the AI uses your exact answers instead of guessing.

• The common ones come first: notice period, expected salary, right to work, full-time or contract, relocation. Type your answer the way you would say it, for example 60 days, can negotiate down to 45. Leave a row empty to skip it.
• Three empty rows show at a time. Show N more unanswered opens the rest, and Remove all unanswered clears the ones you will never need.
• Add a question suggests common questions as you type (notice, salary, visa, relocate...), or adds your own.
• Each answer shows when you last updated it. After 30 days a Still right? chip reminds you to check it.
• Keep the whole list under 1,500 characters; the AI reads the first 1,500.
• Used for spoken questions and questions you type in Ask, not for screen captures.

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   Step 1: Add a question you expect

   Type it in Add a question you expect, or click a suggestion. Asked in your previous interviews lists real questions from your recent sessions, and From your last interview recap lists the questions your recap predicted.
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   Step 2: Write the answer, or let the AI draft it

   Write it in your own words, or click Draft with AI. It writes a first version from your resume, the job description and your role, and you edit it until it sounds like you. Redraft with AI tries again.
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   Step 3: Nothing else to do

   Prepared answers save to your account as you type. In the interview, when a question closely matches one of yours, the AI builds the answer on what you wrote and adjusts it to how the question was phrased. If nothing matches, you get a normal answer.

Within a single interview the AI also remembers what has been said: the most recent exchanges word for word and a short note of everything before them. So an answer in minute 40 does not contradict a tool or number you gave in minute 5. That note is cleared when you end the interview.

• Language is searchable: 35 languages, popular ones first.
• No preference (the default): code is written in the language selected in the editor on screen, or in Python if the screen shows none.
• Preview this under the picker shows a coding answer in the language you chose.

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   Step 1: Play a sound on your computer

   Anything will do: a YouTube video, or your meeting app's speaker test.
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   Step 2: Click Test meeting audio

   A level meter shows what the app hears. It captures sound exactly as a live interview does, but only on your computer: nothing is transcribed or sent, and it uses no credits. It stops by itself after about 20 seconds.
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   Step 3: Read the result

   We can hear your computer's audio means your interview will be captured the same way; keep the meeting on the same speaker or headset. We can't hear anything lists fixes for your system (below). Fix one thing, then click Test again.

The right side shows what the AI remembers from your previous interviews, with the switch to leave it out this time. Edit details takes you back to Interview Setup. Details are correct — start interview starts the interview, and only then is anything billed. On your first interview the screen also reminds you that AI answers can be wrong, so check facts, numbers and code before you rely on them.

"I always interview for this same profile"

Tick I always interview for this same profile — don't ask me again if you only ever interview for one profile. Interviews then start straight away with the same details, so update Interview Setup before you start if you switch role or company.

• It comes back on its own when the category, domain, name, target role, target company, resume, job description, your instructions, coding language or interview language changes.
• Answer mode does not count. Switching Auto-Response on or off changes when answers appear, not what they say.
• You can turn it back on with Turn back on under Settings → General → Before each interview.

Changes apply from your next answer. An answer already on screen is not rewritten.

Saved to your account

Your Interview Setup is saved to your LastRound AI account and comes back by itself when you sign in: after a reinstall, after an update, or on another computer. The line above the buttons says Saved to your account when that has happened.

• Two computers: edits merge field by field. If you change the same field on both, the latest edit wins.
• Offline: your setup keeps working, and the account copy updates when you are back online.