Prepare for an interview
Work & Email
Give the employer and role and get eight likely interview questions first, with the answers deferred.
Fill the blanks and it copies as you filled it
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Come up with interview questions I should expect.
- Where and what role:
- Look up questions that actually come up for this role and use them
- Eight questions only. Don't write the answers yet0 of 1 blanks filled · anything left blank copies with its brackets
Asking for questions and answers in one turn produces answers built on questions that were never checked. Take the questions first, pick the ones that matter, then ask for answers.
What this prompt does
Compared with asking the same thing without the length and format lines.estimate
Estimated output tokens
1,400
Asked loosely
700
This prompt
Energy (Wh)
1.215
Asked loosely
1.215
This prompt
Tokens estimated from characters; energy measured by Jegham et al. 2025.
A shorter answer, but the same energy band — the measurements are per band.
Reported backfire — Specifying output lengthSpecifying a length longer than needed backfires (a 34% increase in 11% of scenarios)
Where these figures come from
Published figures for the rule itself — not what this prompt saves.
Assigning a role
44%mean reduction · 95% CI 29–59%
Podder et al. 2026 BP#4 · 19 use cases / 61 prompts
by modelGPT-4o 34%Command R+ 50%Mistral-7B 49%
Specifying output length
38.7%mean reduction · 95% CI 29.7–47.7%
Podder et al. 2026 BP#5 · 18 use cases / 57 prompts
by modelGPT-4o 35%Command R+ 49%Mistral-7B 32%
Reduced in every scenario. No backfire reported