The ClapAssist blog

Which post to read first

Most people land on this blog with one of three questions. Pick the one that matches yours. If your interview is tomorrow and you only have one evening, the interview preparation checklist is the quickest place to start.

• "Is this AI interview tool worth paying for?" Start with the posts on free trials and discounts below. They show what each vendor offers for free, what the first payment is, and what you pay after it. The full price table for every tool is on AI interview tool prices.
• "My interview is in a format I have not done before." Read the interview tips posts: phone screens, recorded one-way video on HireVue, and online coding assessments on CodeSignal and HackerRank. Each one explains how the format works, what the platform itself says, and how to prepare.
• "Can I use AI for this?" Every post that touches this question gives the same plain answer: AI is a good way to prepare, and many employers and platforms do not allow it during the interview or the test itself. Where a platform publishes its own rules, the post quotes them and dates them.

AI interview tools

Prices, free plans, discounts and how the tools compare, read from each vendor's own pages with the date.

Interview tips

Formats and platforms: phone screens, one-way video, online assessments, and how to prepare for each.

How we write and check the posts

The blog follows a short set of rules. They are here so you can judge each post for yourself.

• Facts about other tools come from the tool's own site. Prices, free plans, refund rules and features are read on the vendor's own pages, and the page says the date we read them. Prices in this market change often, sometimes within a week. If you are about to pay, check the vendor's page on the day.
• No invented numbers. We do not publish statistics, reviews or quotes we cannot point to. When a source can't be opened, the fact is left out or marked as unverified.
• No made-up discount codes. A code is named only when the vendor itself shows it, with the date. Coupon sites often list codes that no longer work. The promo code post explains how to test one.
• We say what we did not do. We have not run paid tests of every tool, so no post claims a tool was "tested and ranked". Comparisons are built from what each vendor publishes.
• Examples are labelled. Sample answers and scripts are written for the post as examples, not quotes from real candidates.
• Sources are listed at the end of each post with the date each one was opened, so you can read the original.

The posts are written by Md Emteshal, who works on SEO for ClapAssist and is not a recruiter or a career coach. The interview advice comes from university career centers, government career services and the platforms' own help pages, and each post links to them.

Where ClapAssist fits, and where it does not

ClapAssist is a desktop app for Mac and Windows that helps during live video interviews on Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams. It is not built for recorded one-way video interviews, proctored coding tests or calls taken on a mobile phone, and the posts on those formats say so. When a post compares ClapAssist with another tool, it uses the same rules as above: our own prices come from our pricing page, and the other tool's facts come from its own site.

If a post leaves you with a question it does not answer, the interview guides go deeper on single questions, such as tell me about yourself or salary expectations.

Guides and free tools

Longer answer guides live in the interview guides. Prices of every AI interview tool, side by side, are on AI interview tool prices. To practice out loud, use the free AI mock interview.