company research prompt
Takes a press release, funding announcement, or engineering post and turns it into connections to the role, informed questions, and two things not to bring up.
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Here is something {{company}} published or something recently written about them:
{{news_text}}
I am interviewing for a {{role}} role there. Help me use this well:
- Summarize what it actually says in three sentences, separating fact from company framing.
- What it implies about the engineering work in the next six to twelve months, and how that connects to the role I am interviewing for. Be specific about systems, scale, or constraints it hints at.
- Three informed questions I could ask an interviewer that build on this, each phrased so it shows understanding rather than flattery.
- Two things from this news I should not raise in an interview (layoffs, litigation, a failed product, a competitor comparison that stings) and why.
- One sentence I could use if asked "why this company" that references this without sounding rehearsed.
how to run it
Paste the actual text, not a link; the model cannot fetch pages reliably. Run it on the two most recent items before the onsite. Use one talking point per interview, not all of them.
what good output looks like
A summary that strips the marketing framing, questions that connect the news to the actual job, and a do-not-raise list you had not thought about.
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