For years, Pramp was the default free way to run a mock interview. You'd book a slot, get paired with another job seeker, and the two of you would interview each other — one playing candidate, one playing interviewer — then swap. It was free, peer-to-peer, and surprisingly effective.
In 2024 that changed. Pramp was folded into Exponent: visit pramp.com today and you're redirected to Exponent Practice, and to schedule a session you now need an Exponent account.
The peer-matching model still exists, and it's still free up to a point. But if you went back to Pramp expecting the old quick experience, the workflow is different now — and for a lot of people, the bigger issue was never Pramp's owner. It was the peer model itself.
What Pramp actually was (and the catch)
Pramp's core idea was peer mock interviews. You'd pick a track (software engineering, data, PM, behavioral), book a time, and get matched with a stranger to interview each other using a shared prompt and a solution the platform gave the "interviewer."
For practicing the back-and-forth of an interview, it was great. But the peer model has built-in friction:
- You have to schedule. No practicing at 11pm the night before your interview — you need a slot and a partner.
- Your partner is also a beginner. They're not a trained interviewer; the quality of your feedback depends entirely on who you get matched with.
- It's generic. Questions come from a track, not from your job posting.
- No objective score. You get a peer's impression, not a consistent, repeatable measurement.
After the move to Exponent, you also need an account, and the free peer sessions are capped per month. None of that is bad — it's just not the fast, on-demand, tailored practice many candidates actually want.
What a 2026 replacement should look like
The most useful interview practice today is on demand, tailored to a specific job, and scored consistently — without waiting for a partner. Concretely:
- Available the moment you need it, not on a schedule.
- Voice-first, because you'll talk in the real interview.
- Questions generated from the actual job description, optionally using your resume.
- A real interviewer experience — one that asks follow-ups when your answer is thin.
- An objective, repeatable score with specific coaching, not a stranger's gut feel.
ResReader for Candidates: practice on demand, no partner needed
ResReader for Candidates gives you the back-and-forth of a real interview without scheduling or a partner. It's free to start, voice and video-based, and built around a specific job.
You paste the job description. ResReader reads the actual posting and generates questions calibrated to that role — its skills, seniority, and framing — instead of a generic track.
You talk, the AI talks back. Over a real-time voice connection, you and the AI interviewer — Alex — have a genuine conversation. Alex asks, listens, follows up when you're vague, and moves on. A session runs about 5–7 minutes — and you can start it any time, as many times as your plan allows.
Your resume is fair game (optionally). Attach a CV and Alex references it directly — something a randomly matched peer usually can't do well.
You get an objective score. Afterward: an overall score from 0 to 100, a per-question score, written strengths, areas to improve, and a short summary — consistent every time, referencing what you actually said.
It works in your language. If the posting is in Turkish, Alex interviews you in Turkish. Most major languages are supported.
What you give up vs. what you gain
Honest trade-offs:
- You lose the human peer. Some people value interviewing a real person and seeing how others answer. ResReader's interviewer is AI.
- Sign-up and a microphone required (camera optional) — but you practice under near-real video-interview conditions.
- Free tier is 5 sessions/month. ResReader gives 5 mock interviews and 5 CV optimizations per month free. Starter is $29.99/month (30 + 30, 14-day free trial); Premium is $49.99/month (50 + 50). $11.99 top-up packs add 10 mock-interview credits each — handy in an interview-heavy week.
The gain: no scheduling, no luck-of-the-draw partner, questions matched to your exact job, and an objective score you can chase from one session to the next.
Who this is for
Use ResReader if you want to practice on demand, you're targeting a specific role, you prefer talking to typing, and you want an objective score rather than a peer's impression. Stick with Exponent's peer sessions if interviewing a real human and seeing their answers is the part you value most — many people use both.
How to start
Open ResReader for Candidates, create a free account, and go to the Mock Interview tab. Paste the job description, optionally upload your CV, set the difficulty, and click Start Interview. Alex picks up the call — and five minutes later you've got your first score and your first piece of real coaching.