Anyone got real Beyz.ai alternatives that actually held up in a Zoom interview?
Old codemonkey here, in the middle of a job hunt and bombed two video panels back to back in march which honestly broke me a little. Almost just typed my card into Beyz.ai because every search result i opened had that "Voted #1 AI Interview Assistant" banner up top. Spent a minute looking around the site and couldnt find a source for who actually voted. So went and tested other stuff first.
My goal is honestly pretty narrow. Real time answers during a zoom call, doesnt show up if the recruiter does that midway screen share check, and works for behavioral AND coding because im interviewing for backend roles where they jam both into the same hour. Not looking for a resume rewriter. Not looking for mock practice. Just a quiet copilot that listens and feeds me a structure when my brain freezes mid sentence.
i know there is Cluely, ShadeCoder, Final Round, LockedIn, Sensei... there is a lot out there.
What are your experiences with anything other than Beyz? fwiw i have an Amazon final round and a Stripe phone screen lined up in the next two weeks so im on the clock.
UPDATE.
You are all very kind. In trying to keep my post short i left out some stuff that probably skewed answers (although i think all the posts here were helpful as we all wade into this brave new world of live interview copilots).
First and foremost is that im on a Mac with a second monitor so the dual device workflow some of these tools push isnt a dealbreaker. And Beyz "Voted #1" line is just marketing, no source on their actual site that i could find, and the 230K user claim doesnt line up with the review counts when you start digging. Could be wrong, just my read after an evening looking.
So my post wasnt a Beyz hate post. It was more about which of these actually held up in a live Zoom interview and which ones got flagged or stuttered out at the worst possible moment when the question was halfway through and you were already sweating.
InterviewMan will get a free plan trial first, the annual is twelve a month if i like it. ShadeCoder has my favorite f-word, "Free," attached to its starter, ill check it out, probably Sensei too. Anything with no annual lock im likely to at least sample.