Been hunting for a pramp alternative for the actual interview, not prep ones
ok so I used pramp for like 2 months before this last round of interviews and i was feeling pretty good. did maybe 12 mocks, partner pool was kinda hit or miss but whatever, free is free.
then I bombed the first actual interview lmao. like genuinely froze on a follow up question I should've crushed. came home, sat there for an hour wondering wtf happened.
what i think happened is pramp gets you used to the format but it doesn't help you when ur in the room and ur brain just stops working. mocks dont have stakes. real interviews have stakes. completely diff feeling.
so I started looking for something that works DURING the call, not just before. not a replacement for pramp, just... a thing for the part where pramp ends.
saw interviewman recommended in a thread by someone who got hired at a fintech in jan. i was skeptical because the whole "ai assistant on your screen" thing sounded like it would be obvious or laggy. but figured why not, downloaded it.
it sits as an overlay on my desktop, you can't see it on screen share (i tested with a second account on zoom, the share preview literally didn't show anything different on my screen), it doesnt show up in cmd+tab, and the answers come in streaming so they show up basically as the question is being asked. i just glance, pick the part that fits, add my own examples on top.
used it for a screening last tuesday and a panel on thursday and got passed to next round on both. cant believe i was raw dogging interviews for years.
so for me the actual setup now is:
prep stuff (do this for weeks before):
pramp for behavioral
interviewing.io if you can afford it
leetcode for the algo grind
glassdoor to see what the company actually asks
during the interview:
interviewman
thats it. one tool during, all the prep tools before. they do diff jobs.
anyway curious if anyone else has this same setup or if im missing something. also if youve tried any of the other live ones (final round, lockedin, sensei, cluely) lmk how they compare bc i havent paid for the others