Mock interview loops, on demand

Upcoming loop, nobody to mock with. Run the first round whenever you are ready.

Rebuild just the rounds you have left, or run a full loop at your level. Behavioral and system design rounds are spoken, with follow-ups on what you said and what you drew; coding runs for real against tests. Every round comes back with a Hire or No Hire and the reasons. Nothing to schedule, no card, and a custom loop can be as short as a single round, so a spare hour is enough to get a rep in.

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Our users have landed roles at

Senior SWE Loop · 5 rounds · ~3h

Hire

8/10

Pacing

7/10

Correctness

5/10

Independence

  • Kth missing number

    Coding

    Hire
  • Connect two islands

    Coding

    Hire
  • Multi-region failover

    System Design

    Hire
  • Distributed event streaming

    System Design

    Hire
  • Disagreeing with a technical decision

    Behavioral

    No Hire

On demand

Start whenever you are ready

Sign in, pick a level or the rounds you have left, and go. Nothing to book and nobody to wait on.

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Full loops free in the trial

14 days, no credit card. Enough to judge the platform for yourself before paying anything.

Hire / No Hire

A decision after every round

The call a debrief would make after each round, with the reasons written out rather than a vague score.

Rerun

Any round that came back No Hire

Build a custom loop of just the round that failed and run it again. The second attempt tells you whether the fix held.

Nobody to mock with

Is an AI mock anything like the real thing, or just a problem bank with a timer?

A problem bank with a timer cannot ask why you built it that way, and it will never tell you No Hire. Here the rounds interview you: follow-ups built from what you actually said and what you drew, coding graded on real execution, and a decision after every round backed by what the interviewer saw.

It talks back

Follow-ups that engage with what you actually said

Work the behavioral and system design rounds out loud, and the interviewer picks up on what you said: which part of that story was specifically yours, what happens to the upload when a transcoder dies mid-job. The next follow-up comes from whatever you just said, so a rehearsed answer only carries you until the first question about the details.

It grades like a debrief

Scored round by round, then a decision with the evidence

Every round comes back with a Hire or No Hire and what it was based on: the edge cases you missed, the trade-off you waved past, the story that never named your part in it.

It is there at 11pm

Loops at your level, or built from the rounds you want

Curated loops at your level, or a custom loop made of exactly the rounds you want to rehearse. Nothing to schedule, and nobody to owe a favor when you decide late on a weeknight that you want one more rep.

Inside the rounds

Follow-ups in the moment, and a debrief that shows its work

Coding: real execution against tests, with a debrief that names exactly what it saw.

Unique permutations of integers

Coding · debrief

AIEvery test passed, no hints. Generating permutations by swapping and deduplicating with a set works, but it creates the duplicates and then throws them away; sorting the input first lets the backtracking skip repeated branches entirely. The solution works and is close, but it is not the optimal approach yet.

Correctness: Strong · Optimality: Needs work · Round: Hire

Behavioral: the follow-up about which part of that story was specifically yours.

Describe a time when you had to disagree with a technical decision made by your team lead or manager

Behavioral · voice on

AIWalk me through it. What was the decision, and where did you land?
YouWe were migrating the order service off the monolith and we decided to keep a shared queue for the cutover. We shipped it in about six weeks and it went fine.
AIYou said "we" three times there. Which part of the queue decision was specifically yours, and what would have happened if you had lost that argument?

Story ownership: Needs work · Scope: Mid-level · Round: No Hire

System design: the follow-up about what fails first, asked against what you drew on the whiteboard.

Design a video sharing platform

System Design · 45 min

AIYour transcoders pull uploads off the queue. Walk me through one dying mid-job: what happens to that video, and how does anything upstream find out?
Excalidraw whiteboard with a video platform architecture: front door, fault tolerance, event stream, queue, transcoders and storage

Afterwards: the skill assessment, rated skill by skill, with the evidence behind each rating in the written feedback.

ConcurrencyStrongFailure modesStrongPacingNeeds workStory ownershipNeeds work

Reps that fit your schedule

Single rounds when you have an hour, the full loop when you want the rehearsal

A custom loop can be as short as a single round, so a rep fits in whatever hour you can spare, and a phone screen is usually one coding round on its own, which maps cleanly to a single custom round here. The full loop runs in one block on purpose: holding up across a string of rounds is its own skill, and the only way to build that endurance is to run them together.

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    First: one cold coding round

    This is the screen rep, and the screen is usually the gate on whether the rest of the loop happens at all. The readout tells you whether your prep needs a touch-up or a rebuild, early enough to do something about it.

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    Next: the rest of the rounds, one rep at a time

    Build custom loops from exactly the rounds you want to rehearse and run them as your schedule allows, in whatever order suits. Each comes back with its own decision and debrief.

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    Then: rerun whichever round came back No Hire

    The skill assessment and coach advice from that round name what went wrong (the edge cases missed, the trade-off waved past). Practice questions here cover all three disciplines and adapt to your level, so you can drill those exact gaps outside the pressure of a loop, then build a custom loop of just that round and run it again. The second attempt tells you whether the fix held.

  4. 4

    Before the real thing: one full loop, start to finish

    Run the whole sequence in one block at least once. The later rounds are where being tired starts to show, and the full run is the one that surfaces which round is still shaky, with time left to rerun it.

Interview Readiness

Senior SWE

  1. 1Unprepared
  2. 2Building
  3. 3Almost There
  4. 4Prepped

A practice signal computed against the level you picked, not a prediction.

Pricing for the reps you need

Start with three free loops, then keep everything running while you interview

The trial is three full loops over 14 days with no card, so you can see exactly how the grading works before you decide anything. Complete Prep below opens up unlimited loops, the courses and adaptive practice, monthly while you are interviewing or lifetime if you would rather pay once, and you can cancel the monthly whenever you are done.

Pay once and get lifetime access
  • Coding, System Design and Behavioral practice problems
  • Adaptive practice mode
  • Unlimited mock interviews
  • Detailed loop debrief and feedback
  • Progress tracking & skill gap analysis
  • Personalized coach advice
  • Structured courses for all disciplines

Success stories

From people who know what a real loop feels like

The analytics and feedback here are incredibly detailed. Going through the mock interview loops felt like I was actually at an onsite loop, not a watered-down practice session. Highly recommend!
SSteve · Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
I tried multiple platforms, but Preppable is by far the best. The system design interviews with interactive drawing boards are exactly like the real thing. The follow-ups and deep dives are very thorough and helpful.
AAnmol · Senior Software Engineer at Bayer
Preppable's behavioral interviews are a game changer. They teach you how to structure your stories effectively and give you detailed feedback on your communication skills. This is an area that is critical in landing offers (especially for senior positions), but isn't available in any competing platforms.
SSahaj · Senior Software Engineer at Amazon

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