The Panel Prep Kit

You got the interview. Now walk in knowing the problem they're hiring you to fix.

You've had interviews that felt like they went well. Then a no, and no reason.

A battery engineer wrote that not one company had given him "even a slight indication for why the answer was no." I've sat on the other side of that table, at Tesla and on the teams I hire for now, so I can tell you what usually happened. Nobody doubted the work. The candidate described tasks: what they were responsible for, what they supported. Someone else walked in already talking about our problem, with fixes that proved they could handle it.

Your work doesn't speak for itself in an interview. It has to speak to their problem.

The Panel Prep Kit is how to walk in like that, for one specific company, in about thirty minutes.

WHAT'S INSIDE

- The job post decoder: find the problem they're hiring for in the words they repeat, so you know which fixes to lead with.

- The two questions to ask the recruiter on the first call. One tells you whether the role is a backfill or new. The other gets the team's biggest problem in their own words.

- The panel map: what a hiring manager, controls lead, quality engineer, production manager and HR each push on, so no question catches you flat.

- Fix cards: turn three of your fixes from tasks into outcomes. What kept breaking, why, what you changed, and what it was worth.

- Five questions to ask them, including the one that tells you if the manager is worth working for.

- Your "why this company" story, with two of mine as examples: one for a product I'd touched, one for a company I'd only researched.

- A worked example for a battery equipment engineer role, built on a real fix from my time at Tesla.

WHO IT'S FOR

Hardware, manufacturing and equipment engineers with an interview coming up, in EV, battery, robotics, automation, medical devices or advanced manufacturing.

WHO IT'S NOT FOR

Anyone looking for scripted answers to memorize. This is prep for the specific company you're walking into.

Walk into the next one knowing their problem, so the answer isn't another no without a reason. A 10-page fillable PDF, on your phone or printed. Save a fresh copy for every interview.

By Leora Homel, ex-Tesla hiring panelist, now Engineering Manager, Battery R&D at Lucid.

Fill in one fix card and send me your before and after. I read every one.

All sales are final. It's an instant download, and once you've seen what a panel listens for, you can't unsee it. If a file won't open or something's missing, email me and I'll fix it.