The most common mistake candidates make in the final stretch of interview preparation isn't under-preparing. It's not knowing whether they're prepared. They feel ready, or they feel not ready — but both feelings are unreliable. Feelings don't surface the specific gap in your
You've done this before. You prep for a week, read through the "top 50 behavioral questions," and feel reasonably ready. Then the interviewer asks, "Tell me about a time you dealt with conflict on your team" — and you either freeze or ramble for four
Most people who haven't used an AI mock interview tool have a mental image of what it is: a chatbot that throws questions at you, maybe tells you your answer was good or needs improvement, and moves on. That's one way to describe it. It'
Most people preparing for an interview have the same two problems: not enough time and not knowing how to use the time they have. You can find hours to practice — and spend them on the wrong kind of preparation. Or you have 15 minutes before lunch and don't
Most interview prep advice treats all interviews as the same. Read the common questions. Practice your answers. Research the company. Show up confident. The problem? A startup CTO interview is nothing like a FAANG engineering screen. A junior PM role at a Series A company asks completely different things than
Generic interview practice gives you generic results. You practice "an interview" — and what you actually get is confidence in one specific format that may have nothing to do with the room you walk into. Some interviewers are encouraging and want you to succeed. Others are deliberately cold. Some
The standard advice for interview prep is: prepare everything. Read the common questions list. Practice your behavioral answers. Brush up on your technical skills. Know the company. The problem with this approach is that "everything" is infinite, and most of what you prepare for won't come
Every interviewer does the same thing before you walk in: they read your resume. They look at your timeline, your role titles, your notable projects, and they form a set of questions. Not generic questions — questions specific to you. "I see you led the migration from monolith to microservices
Deliberate practice with AI feedback is more effective than any other interview prep method. Here's how AI mock interviews work and who benefits most.