How a Cue mock interview works
- Add your resume and the job description in the app. Cue writes questions about your real experience and what the role asks for, not generic ones.
- Choose a round and its length: Behavioral, Technical, System design or Mixed, with 5, 10 or 15 questions.
- Answer each question out loud. Cue reads the question aloud and transcribes your answer as you speak. You can type instead.
- Get feedback straight after each answer: a score out of 10, what was strong, what to improve, and a rewritten answer that keeps your own examples.
- Read the debrief at the end: your average score and the few things to work on next. The whole run is saved in History on your PC, so you can compare runs.
The four kinds of round
| Round | What it asks |
|---|---|
| Behavioral | Past experience: conflict, ownership, failure, leadership and impact. |
| Technical | Concepts and trade-offs in the technologies on your resume and in the job description, answerable out loud. |
| System design | A design problem sized for a spoken answer of a few minutes: requirements, components, data flow, scaling and trade-offs. |
| Mixed | A realistic interview: a warm-up, then behavioral, technical and situational questions, with a system design question for engineering roles. |
What the feedback looks like
An illustrative example of the format Cue uses for every answer:
“Tell me about a time you missed a deadline.”
6/10
- Strengths
- Honest about what went wrong; a clear, specific project.
- To improve
- You spent most of the answer on the situation. Say what you did once you saw the risk, and end with what changed afterwards.
- A stronger answer
- “On the billing migration, I realised two weeks out that testing would run over. I told my manager that day, proposed shipping the read path first, and we moved the write path a week later. Since then I add a testing buffer to every estimate and flag risks at the first stand-up.”
Who it’s for
- Job seekers who want to practise for one specific role, from their own resume.
- Graduates and career switchers getting used to answering out loud.
- Engineers preparing technical and system design rounds they need to talk through.
- Anyone with an interview soon who wants honest feedback before the real one.
New to behavioral questions? Start with our guide to preparing for a behavioral interview, then practise the stories with Cue.
Privacy
Your resume, job descriptions and practice history are kept in the app on your PC. They’re sent to Cue’s AI only to write your questions and feedback, and the audio of your answers isn’t stored. See the privacy policy.