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Mock interview

Reading an answer and saying it are different skills, and only one of them gets tested. This is a place to say it once, badly, where it costs nothing.

Six questions by defaultNo timerNothing is scored

The run

Six questions, one at a time. Write the answer the way you would say it, not the way you would write it — the difference is the point. You can stop at any question and the run keeps what you have.

Using the six default questions, one from each group.

What the summary is telling you

Structure, never quality.

The run looks for the four STAR beats and reports which ones it cannot find. That is a claim about shape, not about whether the answer is any good — a structurally complete answer can still be a weak one, and a two-sentence answer with all four beats can be excellent.

It can tell
That you never said what you did, or never said how it ended. Those are the two beats people skip, and both are visible from the words.
It cannot tell
Whether the example was the right one, whether the result was impressive, or whether you sounded like you meant it. A person has to tell you that.

Where your answers go

  • Signed out: this device only, under one key this product declares on the cookies page. Closing the tab keeps them; clearing site data does not.
  • Signed in: your account, with your other tool results, and they follow you to another device.
  • Never: to a company, to an interviewer, or onto your public profile. There is no field on any of those that could hold one.
  • Deletable: a run can be removed one at a time, and deleting your account removes all of them with everything else.

Your runs

No runs yet. The first one takes about ten minutes.

Questions.

Is my answer scored?

No. The summary reports which of the four STAR beats your answer appears to be missing. That is structure, not quality, and a structurally complete answer can still be a weak one.

Why is there no timer?

A countdown practises working under a countdown. What is worth practising is saying the thing once, in order, out loud — and a clock in the corner makes people write instead of speak.

Can I use my own questions?

Yes. Keep them on the questions page and the run starts from that set. A question you were actually asked is worth more than one from a bank.

Does anyone read these?

Nobody. There is no review queue, no coach, and no model reading them in the background.

Next

After a run, what helps is scoring a real interview, nerves included.