How we pick interview prep tools
We sort tools by the interview you face, then pick the one we would open first for each. Every fact comes from the tool maker's own site, read on November 8, 2026, and each one links to the page it came from. We did not test the tools hands-on, run surveys, or collect reviews.
What did we do to pick these tools?
- Listed the interview prep tools people search for most, including Final Round AI, Yoodli, Google Interview Warmup, Big Interview, interviewing.io, Pramp and Exponent, LeetCode, Huru, Interview Sidekick and Teal, plus a few others still operating.
- Read each tool's own home, product, pricing and FAQ pages on November 8, 2026. We cite 58 pages in total; all are on the sources page.
- Checked whether each tool still operates. Google Interview Warmup's address now redirects to an article; Pramp moved into Aced, the renamed Exponent.
- For the practice guides, read the employers' own prep pages (Amazon, Meta, Google) and university career centers.
- For the copilot page, read employer and platform policies and the copilot makers' own claims, and marked press reports as press.
What did we not do?
- We did not sign up for or use these tools, so we make no claims about how good their feedback is in practice.
- We did not survey users or count reviews, and we report no success rates.
- We did not list a fact we could not read on the company's own page that day. LeetCode and Teal blocked our first requests, so we read their pricing pages again in a full browser the same day. LeetCode's Premium page lists only what Premium adds, so we do not describe its free account.
How does a tool become a pick?
- Fit to the interview. Does it practice the kind of round you face: spoken answers, live coding, system design?
- The feedback it says it gives. Follow-up questions, scores, speech metrics, or a human interviewer.
- What it costs to start. A free option counts in its favor; prices must be published.
- Practice, not live help. Tools whose main product is answers during a real interview are not ranked. We explain why on the copilot page.
A solid line in the picks table means a clean pick. A dashed line means the pick comes with a catch you should read first.
Who publishes The Dry Run?
The Dry Run is published by Dreamwork. Dreamwork makes a job application tool, not an interview prep tool, so it does not appear in our picks. It appears in one section of the home page, for readers who are not yet getting interviews, and on the about page, where its name carries the note "our publisher". The full disclosure is in the footer of every page. No tool maker paid to appear here, and none was told in advance. More on the about page.
Changelog
- First published. Picks for six interview types, three tool pages, four practice guides, and the live copilot page. All facts checked this day.
- Later the same day: added a page on Final Round AI; added LeetCode and Teal after reading their pricing pages in a full browser; added Aced's plan prices from its membership page; merged the questions-to-ask guide into the company research guide; moved the publisher disclosure to the footer, with a short note beside Dreamwork's name where it is mentioned; added margin notes to the reading pages.