Interview questions that fit the role
Interview questions prepared per candidate and role, so the interview tests what matters
- Runs while your laptop is closed
- Reports in Littlebird and by email
- Free plan includes 5 routines
You have two interviews today, and each candidate has one area worth probing.
- Backend engineer at 11:00 AM: their background shows payments work but no on-call experience. Ask about the last time their code failed in production.
- Product designer at 3:00 PM: the portfolio already proves the visual skills. Spend the time on one research study they led.
The problem
Most interviews run on a stale question list: the same ten questions asked of every candidate for every role, testing interview trivia instead of the job.
Meanwhile the candidate's actual background goes unexplored, and the debrief is a shrug with a hiring decision attached.
What it does
This routine prepares interview questions for each candidate based on the role and their background: what to probe, what to test, what to skip.
You walk in with questions that could actually change the decision, instead of the list everyone rehearses answers to.
Try the prompt
Copy it into a new Littlebird routine, then set the days and times that fit your schedule
- Open Littlebird and go to Routines. Open the menu next to New Routine and choose Set up manually.
- Paste the prompt into Instructions, then set the days and time under Run.
- Littlebird runs it on schedule from then on. You can pause or edit it anytime. Auto-pause is on by default and pauses it if reports go unread.
You can also choose Create with Littlebird and describe the routine in chat.
Every weekday morning prep me for today's interviews with tailored questions based on the role and candidate background
Why make it a routine?
Paste a resume and a job description into a chat and you get decent questions once. The next candidate means the same paste, the same wait, and a panel still asking the same three things.
This routine runs every weekday morning on its own and preps the day's interviews. It works from the role requirements and candidate material already in your Littlebird context, so the questions fit this hire, not the last one.
The prep lands before you walk in, without you asking for it.
Frequently asked questions
Does it read the resume?
It works from the candidate material you provide in context, plus the role's requirements.
Can it prep a whole panel?
Yes. Each interviewer can get their own angle, so the panel stops asking the same three questions.
Will it score answers?
It prepares the questions. Judging the humans stays with the humans.
What is the price tag?
Routines run on the free Basic plan. Plus is $17 a month billed annually or $20 month to month, with a 14-day free trial.
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Put Littlebird to work
Littlebird is free to start, and your routines also work on the web, iPhone and Android
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