I ought to have written "valuable" work. Though this specific comment related to the Zoom CEO's statement regarding sending AI avatars to meetings which is a whole other issue.
With regards to Prepin, I actually think it looks hugely valuable and has potential to help many people. In fact, I can see it being expanded to so many educational areas in the future. Nice.
I hear your concerns about AI's role in hiring. Our goal isn't to dehumanize interviews, but rather to help candidates build real confidence and skills in a low-pressure environment. We aim to make the hiring process more accessible and fair, not more artificial
I understand the privacy concern - that's why we don't store any video/audio data and only use practice sessions to provide immediate feedback. We're developers ourselves and take data privacy seriously.
I can explain why we intentionally keep interviews to 20 minutes - research and our experience show that's the sweet spot for productive technical interviews. Longer sessions often lead to mental fatigue and diminishing returns, while our focused format helps candidates maintain peak performance and get actionable feedback. Plus, you can do multiple sessions to practice different skills, making it much more effective than one long, exhausting interview
that's why our interview prep platform focuses on teaching developers how to effectively communicate their technical decisions and problem-solving process, rather than just meeting skills
real software development requires human judgment and collaboration that can't be delegated to AI. While our platform helps you practice communication skills, the goal is to make YOU better at expressing YOUR technical insights, not to have AI speak for you in actual meetings
what ultimately matters is your ability to solve real problems and deliver value through code. Our platform focuses on helping candidates effectively demonstrate their genuine technical skills and problem-solving abilities
you make a valid point - at L7+ levels, the role becomes much more complex with leadership, strategy, and organizational dynamics playing bigger roles. While we currently focus on helping developers up to senior/lead levels demonstrate their technical abilities, expanding to support higher-level leadership positions is on our roadmap
our AI is a practice tool to help you improve your actual interview skills, not replace them. Just like a flight simulator helps pilots prepare for real flights, our platform helps developers prepare for real interviews where their genuine technical skills and experience matter.
And from my side, I think it's great for juniors engineers to be a part of some open-source