Technical Interview Coaching for Developers
DolceDrago 335 — a skill for the half of the interview you perform while typing
Variant of Nº035 — The Interview Answer Coach
What it is
Prepares the half of a developer interview that is not an answer at all: a chain of reasoning performed aloud while typing, watched by someone grading the reasoning rather than the result. Builds the protocol used before the first line of code, the running commentary, the script for being stuck, the defence of a design choice under pushback, and a story bank whose numbers are latencies and build times. For developers facing live coding, system design or take-home rounds.
What you receive
a technical-interview pack — the clarification protocol, the narration and stuck scripts, six to eight engineering stories carrying measured numbers, the design-round frame and the engineer's reverse questions
Delivered as a single, complete .md skill file — open it, paste it into any capable chat model, and work. No installation, no account with anyone but us.
Supported models
- Claude (Opus/Sonnet)
- ChatGPT (GPT-4o/5)
- Gemini
- any capable chat model
People reach for it when
- “how to think out loud in a coding interview”
- “what to say when you get stuck in a live coding round”
- “how to defend a design decision when the interviewer disagrees”
- “system design interview structure for a backend engineer”
- “can I use an AI assistant in a technical interview”
Record
lineage: variant · parent 035
gates passed: demand-evidence · function-fit · beats-the-blank-page
status: IN THE COLLECTION
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