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A mock interview for your internship
Before the real one, let a model interview you for your internship, one question at a time. Its feedback on clarity, examples, relevance and gaps is a first opinion to compare with your teacher's, not a mark.
Beginner · 30 min
What you need
Only the chat: no code.
The model
Gemma 4 26B (gemma-4-26b), the default model. In our tests it asked one question at a time, stopped after eight, and quoted the student's own words in its feedback, in English and in German.
We tried Apertus 70B too: it often wrote all the questions at once, and once it gave feedback on answers nobody had written. If you try another model, check that it waits for your answer.
The request
Open a new conversation, pick Gemma 4 26B and paste this, changing the job to yours:
You are the IT manager of a company near Varese that is hiring an intern for the help desk and system administration. Interview me for the position. Ask one question at a time and wait for my answer. Mix technical questions (networks, Linux, Windows, security) with questions about teamwork and motivation. After eight questions, stop and give me feedback on four points: clarity (were my answers easy to follow?), examples (did I back them with real cases?), relevance (did I answer the question that was asked?) and gaps (what did I not know, or leave out?). For each point, write two or three sentences, quote my own words, and end with one thing to practise. Do not give me a mark: this is practice for me, not an exam.
Then answer as you would in the real interview, in full sentences. If you do not know something, say so: that is a good answer too.
Four points, no mark
A mark from a model looks precise, but the model does not know the company, the people who will interview you, or what your teacher expects, and it judges what you type in a chat, not how you speak in a room. Four points tell you what to work on, with your own words as evidence.
Read them as a first opinion. In one of our tests the “student” was weak on purpose: vague answers, and “DNS translates IP addresses into MAC addresses”. The model did not correct that answer during the interview; it came up only at the end, under gaps, with the right protocol, ARP. The same feedback praised the clarity of answers that were vague. A model is often kinder than an interviewer.
Compare it with your teacher
Copy the questions, your answers and the feedback into a document, and show it to your teacher or to your internship tutor. Ask them: “Do you agree with these four points? What would you add?” Where you and the model see it differently, their opinion is the one that counts.
Other jobs
Change the first sentence and the topics:
- Junior developer: “a software house in Milan hiring a junior Python developer; technical questions on Python, Git, databases and testing”.
- Cloud and security: “a managed services provider hiring a junior cloud engineer; questions on Linux, containers, firewalls and incident response”.
- Abroad: add “Interview me in German” (or English, or French) at the end. In our test the whole interview and the feedback came in German; only the four headings stayed in English, as the request writes them.
After the interview
- Ask: “How would a strong candidate have answered question 3?” and compare it with your answer.
- Ask for the five questions you are most likely to get, and prepare them.
- Do it again a week later: are the same gaps still there?
Good to know
- The model does not know the real company: its questions are typical ones, not the ones you will get.
- Do not paste personal data you would not give to a stranger: your phone number, your address, data of other people.