A Prept debrief starts from a real interview you recorded with everyone’s consent. Prept transcribes the call and reads every answer you gave for four things: answer structure, evidence and numbers, how you handled trade-offs, and the questions you asked. It scores each one out of 10 and backs every score with a moment quoted from the call. It also lists your three best moves and three fixes, with the words to say instead.
What goes into a debrief?
- Consent. Before every recording, Prept asks you to confirm that everyone on the call knows they are being recorded. Recording law differs by place, and some places require every person on the call to agree. Our recording guides cover the law and how to ask.
- The recording. You record the round from your laptop, both your microphone and the other side of the call.
- The transcript. The audio is sent in slices to Google’s Gemini API to be transcribed. Once the transcript is written, the audio is deleted. Prept never plays the recording back to you.
- The read. The full transcript is sent to Gemini to write the debrief and to pick out the claims you made, such as team sizes, dates and results. These requests carry no account identifier, and the paid Gemini API does not use them to train Google’s models. The privacy policy has the full detail.
What is the debrief rubric?
Every answer is read for the same four aspects, and each aspect gets a score out of 10 for the round.
| Aspect | What it looks at | What you see |
|---|---|---|
| Answer structure | Whether the answer has a shape the interviewer can follow: what happened, what you did and what changed, without drifting. | A score out of 10 and the moment quoted from the call that it rests on |
| Evidence and numbers | Whether your claims come with specifics: a figure, a result, a name for what you built. A claim with nothing behind it scores lower. | A score out of 10 and the moment quoted from the call that it rests on |
| Trade-off handling | Whether you say what you chose, what you gave up and why. “We kind of just decided to go with it” is the opposite of this. | A score out of 10 and the moment quoted from the call that it rests on |
| Questions asked | The questions you asked the interviewer, and whether they show you understood the role and the team. | A score out of 10 and the moment quoted from the call that it rests on |
The rule behind all four: no score without a quote. If the debrief says an answer was weak on evidence, it shows you the words from the call that made it weak.
What does the report contain?
- A score for the round, out of 10.
- The scorecard: the four aspects above, each with its score and a quoted moment.
- Your three best moves, so you know what to repeat.
- Three fixes, each with the line you said and the words to say instead.
- A story check. If a number you give changes from one round to the next, for example a team of 6 in round 1 and a team of 9 in round 3, the debrief flags it. Interviewers compare notes, so a changed story is a risk. Our guide did my story change explains why.
- Your score round over round for the same application, so you can see whether you are getting better.
How are practice answers in the Mock room scored?
Practice answers in the Mock room use a separate, published rubric with six parts. 45% of it is checked by code, so the same answer gets the same score every time.
| Part | Weight | How it is scored |
|---|---|---|
| Answered what was asked | 25% | Judged by the model |
| Shape: what happened, what you did, what changed | 20% | Judged by the model |
| Your figures | 20% | Checked by code against your resume |
| Length | 15% | Checked by code: full marks within 20% of the target either way |
| Delivery | 10% | Checked by code: filler words per minute |
| The follow-up | 10% | Judged by the model |
A practice score falls into one of three levels: Not yet (below 5), Getting there (5 to 6.9) and Ready (7 and above).
What can a debrief not tell you?
- The hiring decision. The decision is made in the company’s own meeting, from scorecards you never see. Our guide to how interview scorecards work explains that process. A debrief shows what happened in your answers, not what the panel decided.
- Anything that wasn’t said out loud. It reads the transcript, so it can’t see the room, a shared screen or a whiteboard.
- A perfect transcript. Transcription can mishear a word or a number. A quoted moment shows you what the transcript says, so you can check it.
When does Prept help, and when does it not?
Prept writes a debrief only after the call has ended. It gives no help during an interview and shows nothing on screen while the call runs. That is the line between learning from an interview and cheating in one, and we explain it in AI interview help that isn’t cheating.
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