# The Dry Run

> Interview prep tools compared by the interview you face, with practice guides for STAR answers, technical rounds, company research, and questions to ask.

The Dry Run is published by Dreamwork, which makes one of the tools covered here. We say so wherever we recommend it, and we name the cases where another tool is the better pick.

## Pages

- [The best job interview prep tools in 2026](https://bestjobinterviewtool.com/): Picks by interview type: Huru for free AI mock interviews, Yoodli for delivery, interviewing.io for coding, Hello Interview for system design, Big Interview for STAR answers, Aced for free peer practice. LeetCode and NeetCode for coding drills. Live copilots are not ranked.
- [Huru](https://bestjobinterviewtool.com/tools/huru): Free AI mock interviews with follow-up questions and scores out of 100; what it does and costs.
- [Yoodli](https://bestjobinterviewtool.com/tools/yoodli): AI roleplay and speech coaching for interview delivery; plans and limits.
- [interviewing.io](https://bestjobinterviewtool.com/tools/interviewing-io): Anonymous mock technical interviews with senior engineers from $179, and a free AI Interviewer.
- [Is Final Round AI worth it?](https://bestjobinterviewtool.com/tools/final-round-ai): Final Round AI's live Interview CoPilot, Stealth Mode, Pro plan listed at $25+/mo with no free trial, and why it is not ranked.
- [The STAR method for behavioral interviews](https://bestjobinterviewtool.com/guides/star-method): How to structure behavioral answers, MIT's time split, how Amazon uses STAR, and a 40-minute drill.
- [Technical interview prep](https://bestjobinterviewtool.com/guides/technical-interview-prep): What Amazon, Meta and Google say their coding and design rounds test, and a four-week plan.
- [How to research a company before an interview, and what to ask](https://bestjobinterviewtool.com/guides/research-a-company): A one-hour research pass (posting, company pages, SEC filings, news, people), then twelve questions to ask sorted by recruiter, hiring manager and teammate, and what to avoid.
- [Is using an AI interview copilot allowed?](https://bestjobinterviewtool.com/interview-copilots): What live copilots do, what employers including Anthropic, Amazon and Goldman Sachs say, and what platforms detect.
- [How we pick](https://bestjobinterviewtool.com/how-we-pick): Method, what we did not do, pick criteria, and changelog.
- [Sources](https://bestjobinterviewtool.com/sources): Every page cited, with URL and date checked.
- [About](https://bestjobinterviewtool.com/about): Who publishes The Dry Run and how it stays honest.

## Publisher

- [Dreamwork](https://dreamworkhq.com): Dreamwork is an AI job search agent that auto-applies for you, finding roles that fit your resume and tailoring each application.