Interview Tracking System

A structured system for organizing and tracking job interviews. Each company gets its own folder with research, round-by-round notes, preparation materials, and artifacts — following a set of design decisions that keep things organized as interview complexity grows.

How to Use

1. Fork this repo (or copy the interview-tracking/ folder into your own project)
2. Copy _example-company/ and rename it to your target company (e.g., acme-tech/)
3. Copy templates from _templates/ into the appropriate subfolders as you progress through rounds
4. Follow the structure — see _structure-guide.md for the 10 design decisions behind the folder layout

Quick Start for a New Company

# Copy the example as a starting point
cp -r _example-company/ my-company/

# Or start from blank templates
mkdir -p my-company/{rounds,prep,artifacts}
cp _templates/research-template.md my-company/research.md
cp _templates/round-template.md my-company/rounds/R0-recruiter.md
cp _templates/prep-tracker-template.md my-company/prep/tracker.md

Then fill in the templates with your company-specific content.

Folder Structure

interview-tracking/
├── README.md                  # This file
├── _structure-guide.md        # Design decisions (start here)
├── _templates/                # Blank templates for new companies
│   ├── round-template.md      # Single round: prep → notes → review
│   ├── research-template.md   # Company research + intel synthesis
│   ├── prep-tracker-template.md   # Rolling prep tracker
│   ├── quickref-template.md   # Consolidated study material
│   └── postmortem-template.md # Cross-round analysis
├── _example-company/          # Fictional example showing the system in action
│   ├── README.md              # Status dashboard
│   ├── research.md            # Company research (filled in)
│   ├── rounds/
│   │   ├── R0-recruiter.md    # Example recruiter call
│   │   └── R1-technical.md    # Example technical round
│   ├── prep/
│   │   └── tracker.md         # Example prep tracker
│   └── artifacts/             # Static inputs (JD, resume, transcripts)
└── {company}/                 # Your actual company folders go here

Key Concepts

• One file per round — prep, interview notes, and review live together in rounds/R{n}-{type}.md
• README is a dashboard — status and links only, no content duplication
• Single source of truth — each piece of information lives in exactly one file
• Artifacts vs dynamic content — static inputs (JD, resume, transcripts) go in artifacts/, everything else is your analysis
• One tracker, one quickref — never create per-round prep files

See _structure-guide.md for the full rationale behind these decisions.

Templates

Template	Purpose
round-template.md	Single round: prep, notes, and review
research-template.md	Company research and intel synthesis
prep-tracker-template.md	Rolling preparation tracker across all rounds
quickref-template.md	Consolidated study material by topic
postmortem-template.md	Cross-round analysis after all rounds complete