Lesson 12.5: Interview prep checklist | GeekHub Learn

Mock under-prepared candidates fail. Five focused weeks beats fifty days of doom-scrolling.

Athletes train for the meet. You train for the interview.

The 5-week schedule:

Week 1: AI fundamentals (Modules 1-3)
Week 2: APIs, prompts, structured outputs (Modules 4-5)
Week 3: RAG and embeddings (Modules 7-9)
Week 4: Deployment, safety, observability (Modules 10-11)
Week 5: Behavioral, system design, mocks

Every week: 5 mocks, 1 system design exercise, 1 portfolio update.

System design prompts to practice:

Design a customer support RAG bot for a 100-page docs base.
Design a multi-tenant PDF chatbot with auth and per-user limits.
Design an agent that fills a form by browsing websites.

For each: requirements, components, data flow, scaling, safety.

Visualize it

A 5-week calendar visual with goals per week.

Try it now

Do one mock interview with a friend tonight. Use a real job description.

Hands-on lab

Schedule 5 mock interviews across 2 weeks. Record what you stumbled on. Drill those.

Try it now

Why include a behavioral mock?

Common mistakes

Cramming the night before
Practicing only easy questions
Skipping system design

Debugging tip

If interviews keep failing on the same topic, drill that topic with a tutor or AI mock interviewer.

Challenge

Publish your week-by-week prep plan. Update weekly.

Where this shows up

Job interviews
Promotion interviews
Freelance client calls

From the field

Engineers who can clearly walk through their projects beat engineers with more impressive but vaguely explained ones. Storytelling is half of interviewing.

Recap

5 weeks, 5 themes, 5 mocks per week. You will be ready.

Quick recall

3 prompts · think before you flip

Prompt 1 of 3

What is the week 3 focus?

Quiz time

1 question · tap an answer to check it

1. The most common interview rejection reason for beginners is