How to Use Glimp for Technical Interviews
Technical interviews are high-pressure, time-sensitive, and often unpredictable. Here's exactly how to set up and use Glimp so you're never caught off-guard.
Before the Interview: Set Up Your Context
The single biggest factor in Glimp's answer quality is how much it knows about you. Before your interview, go to Settings → Resume Contextand paste in your full resume. Glimp uses this during the session — when the interviewer asks "tell me about a project you built", the AI responds using your actual experience, not a generic answer.
Next, set your AI Persona. For a backend engineering role you might write: "You are a senior backend engineer. Answer technical questions concisely with code examples where useful." For a data science interview, adjust accordingly. This one step shapes every response for the rest of the session.
Launching Glimp
Once your resume and persona are saved, go back to the Overview tab, select your microphone from the dropdown, and click LAUNCH GLIMP. The overlay opens and immediately starts transcribing both the interviewer's audio and yours in real time.
Confirm that STEALTH is showing green in the top right. This ensures the overlay is invisible to the screen sharing software your interviewer is using.
During the Interview: Four Ways to Get Help
1. Send Chat Context — Ctrl+Shift+Enter
Your go-to shortcut. Press it right after the interviewer finishes asking a question. Glimp reads the recent transcript and generates a suggested answer tailored to your background. Works for algorithm questions, system design, and experience-based questions alike.
2. Screen Snapshot — Ctrl+Shift+P
When the interviewer pastes a coding problem on screen or shares a whiteboard, press this. Glimp captures what's on your display and sends it to the AI — which can read code, explain the problem, and suggest an approach without you typing a single word.
3. Full Snapshot — Ctrl+Shift+S
Combines your screen with the recent audio context. Best for complex technical questions where the interviewer has both described something verbally and shown it visually. The AI gets the full picture.
4. Type Manually
For anything specific you want to ask the AI — edge cases, follow-up questions, clarification on a concept — just type it directly into the input bar and send. The AI has the full session context and responds accordingly.
Between Rounds: Clear the Context
Most technical interviews have multiple rounds. Use Ctrl+Shift+Deleteto clear the chat and transcript between rounds. This keeps the AI focused on what's happening now rather than mixing context from a previous interviewer. Fresh round, fresh context.
After the Interview: Review Your Session
Every session is saved automatically in the History tab with a performance score, a skill matrix, and per-question feedback. After your interview, go through the Exchange Analysis — it shows what you said, how it could have been stronger, and a model answer. This compounds over time: the more you review, the sharper you get for the next one.
Quick Tips
- •Paste your full resume before your first session — this is the highest-impact setup step
- •Use earphones so your mic only picks up your voice, not the interviewer's speaker audio
- •Customise your AI persona for each company — a startup interview needs a different tone than a FAANG one
- •Keep Stealth on at all times — the confirmation modal exists to prevent accidental toggling
- •Position the overlay with Ctrl+Alt+Arrow keys so it sits near your natural eyeline
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