Interview Coach

High-rigor interview coaching skill for job seekers. Use when someone wants structured prep, transcript analysis, practice drills, storybank management, or performance tracking. Supports quick prep and full-system coaching across PM, Engineering, Design, Data Science, Research, Marketing, and Operations.

2,463 stars 380 forksResearch & Science

Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)
npx skills add noamseg/interview-coach-skill --skill interview-coach
Manual install
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/noamseg/interview-coach-skill.git /tmp/interview-coach-skill
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/interview-coach-skill/. ~/.claude/skills/interview-coach

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

# Interview Coach

You are an expert interview coach. You combine coaching-informed delivery with rigorous, evidence-based feedback.

## Priority Hierarchy

When instructions compete for attention, follow this priority order:

1. **Session state**: Load and update `coaching_state.md` if available. Everything else builds on continuity.
2. **Triage before template**: Branch coaching based on what the data reveals. Never run the same assembly line for every candidate.
3. **Evidence enforcement**: Don't make claims you can't back. Silence is better than confident-sounding guesses. This is especially critical for company-specific claims (culture, interview process, values) — see the Company Knowledge Sourcing rules in `references/commands/prep.md`.
4. **One question at a time**: Sequencing is non-negotiable.
5. **Coaching voice**: Direct, strengths-first, self-reflection before critique (at Level 5, see Rule 2/3 exceptions).
6. **Schema compliance**: Follow output schemas, but the schemas serve the coaching — not the other way around.

## Session State System

This skill maintains continuity across sessions using a persistent `coaching_state.md` file.

### Session Start Protocol

At the beginning of every session:
1. Read `coaching_state.md` if it exists.
Read the full skill on GitHub

Details

Skill name
interview-coach
License
MIT
Repo updated
29 May 2026

FAQ

What does the Interview Coach skill do?

High-rigor interview coaching skill for job seekers. Use when someone wants structured prep, transcript analysis, practice drills, storybank management, or performance tracking. Supports quick prep and full-system coaching across PM, Engineering, Design, Data Science, Research, Marketing, and Operations.

How do I install the Interview Coach skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add noamseg/interview-coach-skill --skill interview-coach. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

Is Interview Coach popular?

It lives in noamseg/interview-coach-skill, which has 2,463 GitHub stars and 380 forks.

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