Zevi Arnovitz: recommendation

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…That is so funny, deslop. Okay. One more question, which may lead to something else, but kind of going in a whole different direction. You used AI to help you actually interview for the job that you got at Meta. Talk about how you did that, because a lot of people right now are struggling to find a job reading about all these people using AI to help them interview. You actually did it. What did you use? What worked? I feel like the analogy here is I have 12 nieces and nephews and you can see how people who have grown up in a different world, how their mind is formed differently. So if you ask me, how do you answer a phone, I'll do this. But a child now, when you say, "How do you answer the phone?" They'll do this. They'll do the iPhone answer. And I feel like people who are growing up now in their professional lives were the same just with AI. So every time I'm faced with a new challenge or problem, I think AI first how to solve it. So Meta reached out and said they'd like me to interview. Straight away, I opened up a project within Claude. I started looking online for all the best information out there, things that I resonated with. I took a ton of frameworks and stuff from Ben Erez who has written a guest post for you, who I think is one of the best minds out there right now. And basically I created a project which was my coach, which I would come and consult what to do at each phase. I would mock interview with, and this was amazing. Also, I created a game in Base44, which helped me ... I was really struggling with segmentation within the product questions, so thinking of the correct segments. So I basically just created a quiz game, which creates questions and different segmentations and I have to choose. So this was like, I spun this up. It's a web app that I would play sometimes when I was on the bus to work. So basically, I think Ben talks about this a bunch, so I don't just go read Ben's stuff, but just creating a project and feeding it with all the best information on the internet and then mocking a bunch. I will say that the biggest game changer for me was doing human mocks. So cold outreaching to people on LinkedIn and having them do actual mocks for me, I think that at the end of the day, especially for the Meta PM prep, which is super competitive and difficult, I think there's no way to get around that. That is so cool they use that post. I wasn't aware. We're going to link to it. And in that post, Ben shares all these prompts you can feed ChatGPT to help you prepare for interviews, do mocks online. It's a really important point to say that those take you to a point, but it's actually better to use humans. I actually have a post coming out soon in collaboration with Noam Segal about how everyone is using AI to interview. And one of the most interesting ways I've heard people and that we've found in this research was that people use it to get feedback. They record the interview and then it gives them feedback. Here's where you could have done better. Here's what you missed because the feedback loop is so missing. No one ever tells you, here's what you did badly in this interview. No one tells you that, and AI can do that.…

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