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Show HN: My first webapp - cheatsheets that help you prepare for job interviews

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Re: Show HN: My first webapp - cheatsheets that help you prepare for job interviews

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I don't get it.

We provide free and custom made cheatsheets...

Ok, great. Next page:

...and I'm willing to pay up to US$...

Clarify the concept for me. Am I meant to bring these into an interview as a reference point or are these to be used in advance to help me prepare? If it's the former then I can tell you, as someone who has interviewed hundreds of people over the years, someone glancing over these in an interview would leave a terrible impression.

Finally, on your about us page you have the following:

Faisal used to be terrible at interviewing, but over the past 3 years, and with over 500 interviews under his belt (on both sides of the table) he's gotten pretty good at it.

The instant impression I get from this is that Faisal is terrible at interviews. It's not the most convincing argument.

Re: Show HN: My first webapp - cheatsheets that help you prepare for job interviews

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I don't get it. We provide free and custom made cheatsheets... Ok, great. Next page: ...and I'm willing to pay up to US$... Clarify the concept for me. Am I meant to bring these into an interview as a reference point or are these to be used in advance to help me prepare? If it's the former then I can tell you, as someone who has interviewed hundreds of people over the years, someone glancing over these in an intervie…

Hi - no you would not take these to an interview. You would use these to prepare before going in. Maybe it's not for everybody, but for people who are really bad at interviewing (and I've worked with a few of them) structuring their answers and thinking about them before the interview can help. There's nothing magical about cheat sheets other than the fact that using them forces you to think through and structure your answers beforehand. Maybe you already do that - in which case this product isn't for you.
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