What this company asks, and what it is really scoring.
Pick the application. Get a one-page brief: how their process runs, the question types for this round, what they score under the surface, and the three things to prepare tonight.
timed, in order, ending in a mock
company patterns, labelled
Numbers or adjectives. Shipped or theoretical. Specific or generic.
Most early-career marketing interviews at consumer internet companies use the same five shapes: tell me about yourself, a campaign you ran, a metric you tracked, a time something went wrong, and why us. Knowing the shape is half the preparation.
This is the briefing Aarav got three days before his round.
What the round is really testing, the questions it predicts, why each one is asked, and where his own CV is weak against it.
Pick the application. Read the brief. Do the three things.
Pick the application
Company, role and round are already on it. The brief reads the posting you saved.
Process and question types
How their rounds run and what shapes the questions take, from company patterns where we have them.
What they really score
The thing under the question. Numbers or adjectives, shipped or theoretical, specific or generic.
Three things, timed
The brief ends with three tasks and a time for each. One of them is always a mock.
Company-specific when we can be, honest when we cannot.
Confidence on every section
Company patterns, industry patterns, or unknown. Each part of the brief says which, so you know what to trust.
It ends in a mock
A brief you read is worth less than one you practise. The last step is always a mock loaded with these question types.
One page, not a dossier
What you can use tonight. Not a company history, not a culture essay, not forty questions you will not get to.
From brief to mock in the same evening.
Built to be honest, which turns out to be rare.
Every one of these exists because a lie was found and removed. They are not features. They are rules.
Reads the layout of your file
Columns, tables, fonts, page count, contact placement, across seven hiring systems. Every other scanner reads the text and calls it done.
Never invents a fact
Dates, employers, metrics, skills. If it is not in your document it does not appear, and the removal is named so you can add it yourself.
Scores that hold still
The rubric is fixed. The same answer scores the same on every run, so a second attempt measures you, not the mood of a model.
Rewrites your answer, not a better one
“Say it this way” is built from what you actually said. Not a model answer from someone else’s career.
Stop halfway, still get a report
Answer two questions or twenty. Anything we could not measure says “not enough to measure” instead of printing a number.
Absence is always stated
Salary not listed. Page count not measured. Company pattern unknown. Never a green tick nothing earned.
You have an interview. Pick how long you need.
The same product either way. A week if it is Thursday, a month if the hunt has just started.
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Check your resume, build it, and read a real report before you decide.
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- One keyword match against a job posting
- Resume builder, four templates, manual editing
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- Eight salary calculators and the negotiation scripts
- A full sample of every paid report, start to finish
The pass
The same product either way. The only choice is how long your hunt lasts.
- Unlimited mock interviews, voice, up to twenty questions
- Feedback and a model answer on every question, not just the weakest
- Unlimited keyword matching against any posting
- Resume tailoring, cover letters and STAR stories
- Pre-game briefing for the company and the round
- LinkedIn optimiser, prep reports, clean exports
Do one mock interview. If the report does not give you one thing to change before your next interview, write to us within three days and tell us what it missed. We refund in full.
No form. One email within three days of the payment, saying what it missed.Things worth knowing before you start.
What if you have nothing on my company?
The brief says so, and falls back to industry patterns with the confidence lowered. It never invents a process or a question bank.
Where do company patterns come from?
Public interview reports, posted process descriptions, and what our own mocks have surfaced for that company. Labelled by confidence every time.
Does it tell me the actual questions?
It tells you the question types and what they are scoring. The exact wording changes; the shape does not.
How is this different from the mock?
The brief is what to prepare. The mock is the practice. The brief ends by starting one.
Know what they will ask and why, before they ask it.
Pick an application and read the brief tonight.