CalibrdNew — Mock Interview

Rehearse the interview —
out loud.

Calibrd simulates a real interview, asking the questions you're most likely to face. You answer out loud, exactly as you will on the day. Then you get a clear debrief: what worked, what didn't, and what to fix before it matters.

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We askReal questions, by voice
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You answerSpeak your reply aloud
03
You learnAn honest debrief
Add to Chrome — FreeFirst mock free · No card
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Recruiter screenHiring managerSystem designBehavioural+2 more rounds
See it in action

Watch the walkthrough.

One click on a LinkedIn posting. Your coach reads it, checks it against your CV, and hands you the full interview report in about 45 seconds. On every job you open.

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On a real job · free, no signup

Or try it on a real job first.

Paste a job posting and drop in your CV. In about 30 seconds you get a free report — the questions they'll likely ask, where your CV falls short for this role, and a salary benchmark — emailed as a PDF. No account, no card.

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Match score · ATS check · 5 predicted questions · comp benchmark · PDF emailed

45s
Per-job, on-demand
11-in-1
Tools, one click
$0
Free to install + preview
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Prompts to write
Privacy by design

Local-first by design.

Your CV lives in Chrome's local storage, on your device. Not on our servers. It's sent over HTTPS only when you generate a report, and then it's gone. We never keep it, and we never train models on it. The trade-off is on you: switch browsers, Chrome profiles or devices and you carry your CV and data over yourself.

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Stored locally

Your CV text sits in Chrome extension storage. Nothing on our servers.

Sent over HTTPS only

During report generation, encrypted in transit. Never logged, never persisted.

Never trains a model

Your data isn't used to train any model. Not ours, not OpenAI's, not Anthropic's.

Delete anytime

One click in settings clears your CV and report history. No emails to support.

Between mock rounds · drill one question

Drill any single question until it lands.

The mock interview is your live rehearsal. This is the slow practice for it. Pick any question your coach predicted for this role and answer it your way, then get back a rewrite that keeps your words but tightens the structure. Calibrd pulls STAR and motivation examples from your own CV, so you never start from a blank page — and you can line up your takes until an answer is ready to deliver.

  1. 01

    Pick a question, answer it your way

    Choose any question your coach predicted for this role. Type your answer, or speak it — OpenAI Whisper transcribes in 99+ languages, free.

  2. 02

    Get a rewrite, not just a grade

    Your coach scores the answer against the role's bar, names what's missing, and rewrites it tighter while keeping your wording — one credit. Feedback in your report's language (English or French).

  3. 03

    Compare versions until it lands

    Re-record, re-type, and line up your takes side by side. Your coach tells you when an answer is ready to deliver — no guessing. Same loop for your self-introduction and STAR stories.

How it works · 3 steps

Install once. Your coach is on every job.

Your coach reads every LinkedIn, Greenhouse, Lever or Levels.fyi posting automatically — no URL pasting, no CV re-upload. Run a mock interview or pull a full report on any job you open.

  1. 01

    Open a job posting

    LinkedIn Jobs, Greenhouse, Lever, or Levels.fyi — Calibrd reads the page, you don't paste anything.

  2. 02

    Click Calibrd

    A small button appears bottom-right of the page. One click kicks off the report.

  3. 03

    Walk in prepared

    Your coach delivers CV score, gap analysis, cover letter, predicted questions per round, AI coaching, and a comp benchmark — in 45 seconds, on every job you open.

The whole job hunt

Everything from “should I apply?”
to the offer.

Eleven tools across five stages, ending in a full mock interview. Every report is built for the exact role you're chasing, not bulk advice.

The cards below show sample output. Your real reports are built from your CV and the live posting.

Phase 01

Should you apply?

A role-match score and gap analysis, so you know which jobs are worth an evening and which to skip.

Role Match Score

One fit score for this job, based on your actual CV. It tells you whether the role is worth chasing before you sink an evening into the application.

68FIT
Worth pursuing · with prep
Strong on leadership signals; one major domain gap to address.
Summary
Credible at Director level. Strong on platform modernisation and leading multiple teams. The gap Trustly cares about: no direct fintech or payments depth yet.

Experience Gaps

It reads the gap against the JD and flags the ownership and scale the role wants but your CV doesn't show yet. Those are the rounds they'll drill.

Payments / Fintech DomainMAJOR
No experience owning acquiring flows, settlement pipelines, or real-time risk decisioning systems.
How to address → Prepare a story about leading a mission-critical, high-transaction platform with strict compliance or financial accuracy constraints.
Learning resources
Payments Systems in the Real World · Gergely Orosz (Pragmatic Engineer)
Modern Treasury · How Payment Rails Work
Phase 02

Is your CV ready?

See how recruiters and the ATS read your CV, then fix the bullets that are costing you points.

▸ 30-sec ATS demo · tap to enlarge

CV Score · ATS Check

A free ATS scan and a recruiter-read score. It flags your strongest signals and gives you the concrete edits that move each number.

Recruiter read
79
ATS / AI screen
61
Gap · 18 pts
Recruiters rate it 18 pts higher than ATS. A few keywords below can close that gap.
What to fix+25 points available
Payments domain keywords absent+10
AI SCREENINGEXPERIENCE GAP
Add PSD2, Open Banking, PCI DSS to your senior-role bullets.
Summary undersells transformation scopeHUMAN · AI+8
Skills section missing critical keywordsAI SCREENING+7

CV Edit · ATS Templates

Rewrite any bullet against the JD. It keeps every fact and tightens how you've framed it. Then drop the result into a clean, ATS-tested template.

Your bullet

“Led platform migration with the engineering team.”

Calibrated

“Led platform migration across an 8-engineer team over 3 quarters: 40% latency reduction, zero customer-facing downtime, full rollback path published before cutover.”

Templates · 3 ATS-tested✓ Premium
Classic · EditorialDEFAULT
Modern · Dark · single-column
Executive · Manuscript with paper plate
Phase 03

Make the application count

A first-draft cover letter and a self-introduction, both written for this exact role.

Cover Letter

Written from your CV and this exact posting, 250 to 350 words. Pick a tone, edit what you want, and one click rewrites it.

Tone · pick one
WarmDirectFormalPlayful
AI-generated · warm tone

“I’m drawn to Acme’s mission because the challenge of scaling preventive health across markets is exactly the kind of problem I’ve spent the last six years building towards — not just technically, but organisationally…”

250–350 words · personalised✎ editable

Self-Introduction

The 90-second “tell me about yourself” that opens every recruiter screen. It leads with your strongest signal for this role instead of walking your CV in order. Calibrd scores how ready it is and rewrites the weak parts.

✓ Ready to deliver
This intro is genuinely strong — the scale metrics and concrete business impact establish credibility fast. Sharpen the closing by trading generic “I’m built for” for a forward-looking signal about how you’d approach the role’s specific challenges.
Your calibrated intro✦ Updated
Refined from your draft
“I’m Alex, a Director of Engineering with 15 years of experience scaling mission-critical platforms. I led three teams of 20+ engineers running a backend platform for 250M MAU at 99.99% availability, and drove a monolith-to-microservices transformation that accelerated release cycles by a full quarter…”
Phase 04

Practice your answers

A full mock interview, plus the questions you're likely to get, to drill one at a time.

▸ 90-sec real round · tap to enlarge

Mock Interview

Sit the full round out loud. Your AI interviewer asks, follows up like a real panel, then debriefs you: whether you'd advance, and what to fix.

7 rounds · pick one
Recruiter screenSystem designLeadership panel+4 more
Then, your debrief
BorderlineSound architecture — one trade-off short.
Strength
Credible design: precompute, distributed cache, real-time override.
Work on
Pushed on what happens if the write fails, you skipped the trade-off — name it.
Q1 · Latency budgetStrongQ2 · Data modelSolidQ3 · FallbacksWeak
Play the live demo ↑
First mock free · then 10 credits a round

Predicted Questions · AI coaching

Each round gets its own card with the focus, prep tips, and the questions you're most likely to face. Drill them one at a time. AI calibration keeps your wording and tightens the structure.

The loop · 3 rounds
R1Recruiter Screen~30m
R2Hiring Manager Interview~1h
R3Technical & Architecture Deep-Dive75m
SYSTEM DESIGNHARD
“Design the fraud-scoring service in the checkout path, at 10,000 payments per second.”
Common mistake
Reaching for a bigger model before fixing the latency budget and the fallback path.
Practice · your draft
New · Voice
TYPESPEAK
First I’d pin the latency budget. If scoring sits inline in the payment path, I’m targeting sub-50ms p99 — that decides the feature store, the model size, and the fallback when it’s slow…
Voice → text via OpenAI Whisper
AI feedback · 1 credit
Strong: you led with the latency budget, not the model. Now name the fallback when the scorer times out. Panels always probe it.
Phase 05

Walk in prepared

Line up your references, know who you're talking to, and what the offer should look like before they name a number.

Reference Plan

Almost every company checks references before the offer, and most candidates send theirs in cold. Calibrd writes the likely questions for each referee, plus briefing notes, so they speak to the signals that matter for this role.

Who to invite · 3 angles
Former direct manager
Scope progression + 1 cross-functional win
Peer staff engineer
Technical depth + how you handle disagreement
Skip-level you partnered with
Strategic judgement + executive comms
Questions they'll face
Q1“How does Alex handle ambiguous priorities?”
Q2“Tell me about a time Alex pushed back constructively.”
Brief them on
The Q1 2024 roadmap conflict with the PM, the outcome of the revised scope, and how you reset the relationship.

Compensation Benchmark

Estimated base, equity and bonus for this level and location, with a negotiation plan built around your leverage.

Base$140k$115k–$165k
Equity / yr$30k$15k–$55k
Bonus$18k$10k–$28k
Negotiation Strategy · 3 tips
1Anchor base at $155–160k. This is a deliberate seniority step-back, not a comp step-back — frame it that way upfront.
2Trade base for refresh-rate equity if they push. A higher year-2 refresh is more valuable than $10k of base at Director level.
3Name an alternative process you’re in. Fintech-payments leadership is scarce — that’s your strongest leverage on equity.

Company snapshot

The business, the culture, and how they pay, pulled together per company. You walk in knowing what the team actually cares about.

Business

Open Banking payments network, Stockholm-headquartered. Public (listed in Sweden), expanding across Europe and the US. Acquiring, settlement, and risk infrastructure for high-volume merchants.

Culture

Engineering-led, low-ego. Strong bias for ownership; expect to drive your own roadmap. Glassdoor flags fast pace and shifting priorities — verify with your hiring manager.

Compensation

Stockholm fintech market rate; restricted stock vests over 4 years. Performance bonuses tied to product OKRs. Less aggressive equity than US peers — see the Benchmark card for the numbers.

vs The alternatives

Your coach, built around this job —
not a generic CV tool.

Every Calibrd output is tailored to the specific job description you scanned — not bulk advice. Compare to the subscription tools you might already be paying for.

Feature
Calibrdfrom $2 / report
Jobscan$49.95 / mo
LinkedIn Premium$39.99 / mo
Role match score for your CV vs the JD
Experience gaps vs the JD
CV score (ATS + recruiter-read)
CV Edit with AI coaching
Cover letter draft for THIS JD
Self-introduction for the recruiter screen
Predicted interview questions for THIS role
Full mock interview (voice) + graded debrief
Reference-check prep + referee briefing
Compensation benchmark + negotiation strategy
Company snapshot (business + culture)
Direct messaging recruiters (InMail)
Pay-per-report (subscription optional)

Compared against standard subscription features as of 2026. All Calibrd outputs are tailored to the specific job description you scanned.

From the Chrome Web Store

Early users rate Calibrd 5.0.

Real reviews from people prepping for live interviews. Read them on the Chrome Web Store →

★★★★★
I've tried quite a few job application tools, and this one stands out for being both practical and easy to use. It quickly identifies areas where my resume can be improved and helps me better align it with job requirements. The interview preparation suggestions are also relevant and genuinely useful. I rarely leave reviews, but this tool has honestly helped me. If you're currently looking for a job, I think it's definitely worth trying.
Mon sushi Huang30 May 2026
★★★★★
A croire que le développeur de Calibrd a lu dans mes pensées. Simple, clair, une belle plus value. Merci
Fotogra Fritz30 May 2026
★★★★★
This is the AI tool job seeker actually need! I don't need to copy JD,CV and lost in prompts Calibrd is fast, personalized, scalable and safe since CV stays in browser.
Jie Han25 May 2026
Pricing

Start free. Pay per job from $3.99.

A human coach charges $300+ per hour, by appointment. Your AI coach is $3.99 per job — 24/7, with your data staying local.

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Eleven tools, every step from applying to the offer.

Role match score · Experience gaps · CV score (ATS, Human) · CV Edit · Cover letter · Self-introduction · Predicted questions · Mock interview · Reference plan · Compensation · Company snapshot

Free
$0on install

Try Calibrd on your first job posting. No card.

  • 1 preview on install
  • 8 coaching credits

Interview kit preview

  • Role match · CV score · Experience gaps
  • First 3 questions · Base salary only
Run free scan →
Start here
Single
$3.99per job

Full practice on one job. No subscription.

  • 1 job, fully unlocked
  • 25 coaching credits
  • Full interview kit · 11 in 1
$3.99
Best value
−50% off
Bundle
$2.00per job

The sweet spot. Half-price per job, no subscription.

  • 5 jobs, fully unlocked — no expiry
  • 125 coaching credits
  • Full interview kit · 11 in 1
$9.99
Most popular
Pro
$19.99per month

Unlimited jobs. Cancel any time.

  • Unlimited jobs, fully unlocked
  • 500 coaching credits / month
  • Full interview kit · 11 in 1
$19.99
FAQ

Questions about your coach

What is the CV Score?
A score out of 100 across two dimensions — recruiter readability (how clearly your experience reads to a hiring manager) and ATS/AI screening (how well it parses under automated systems). Each report shows what to change to move the number.
Can I just use ChatGPT for this?
You can use ChatGPT — but it's constant prompting, and the output rarely fits your specific situation. General models also drift run-to-run, with quality slipping under peak server load. When you're job-hunting, your energy should go into preparation, not fighting with a prompt window to get something usable. Calibrd skips that friction: a curated learning system with Claude under the hood, prompts tuned to the specific role and seniority. It predicts the questions you'll face, offers guided hints when you're stuck, gives targeted feedback on your drafted answers, and lets you edit your CV directly in the extension based on the gap analysis. One toolkit that goes with you from JD to offer — not a chatbot you have to drive. Full side-by-side comparison →
Which roles does Calibrd work for?
Your coach reads any JD — so it works for nearly any tech role. We've hand-crafted detailed prep guides and calibrated comp + interview-pattern models for 28 senior tech roles across Software Engineering, Engineering Management, Data & ML, Mobile, Infrastructure, Product, and Solutions. Other roles still get useful coaching — the calibration is just sharpest on the 28 we've explicitly tuned for. See the full breakdown — rounds, what each tests, and comp — in the 2026 Tech Interview Report →
Does Calibrd write my cover letter for me?
It writes a personalised first draft tuned to your CV and the job posting. 250–350 words, leading with company mission, connecting your experience to their specific problems instead of repeating your CV. You review and edit; one click recalibrates.
Can I run a full mock interview?
Yes. Calibrd runs a full voice mock interview with the AI playing your interviewer. Pick one of seven rounds — recruiter screen, hiring-manager, cross-functional, leadership panel, executive/VP final, system design, or technical deep-dive. It speaks each question out loud, listens to your spoken answers (transcribed by OpenAI Whisper), and follows up the way a real panel would. You get no feedback in the room; at the end there's a debrief with a clear verdict (would advance, borderline, or not yet), your strengths, the weak spots with fixes, the habits that kept recurring, and a question-by-question read. Your CV shapes the questions for every round except system design, which stays forward-looking. Your first mock is free, then 10 coaching credits a round. Transcripts and debriefs stay on your device, never server-side.
What are coaching credits?
Each report comes with a pool of coaching credits — costs per action: First-time CV analysis −5 · Re-run CV analysis −2 · Re-refine cover letter −2 · Calibrate a CV section −1 · Calibrate an interview answer −1 · Polish your introduction −1 · Run a mock interview round −10 (first mock free). Free plan: 8 credits (first analysis included). Single & Bundle: 25 per job, never expire. Pro: 500 coaching credits per month, resets each cycle.
What's the difference between the free and paid report?
Free is a preview to evaluate Calibrd on a real job: first 3 predicted questions, CV insights and gap analysis, base salary range, and 8 coaching credits for coached feedback on a couple of answers. Paid unlocks the full report — load more predicted questions as you prep, full comp benchmark (base + equity + bonus) with negotiation strategy, cover letter and self-introduction drafts, and inline CV editing inside the extension. Each paid report comes with 25 coaching credits; spend one for AI-coached feedback on any drafted answer, your self-introduction, or your cover letter.
Which plan should I pick?
Single ($3.99 per job) for the occasional application. Bundle ($9.99 for 5 jobs, $2 each — half price) for an active search. Pro ($19.99/month) if you're applying to more than 5 roles or simply need more coaching credits than Bundle's 125 — unlimited jobs, 500 credits/month, cancel any time.
Can I practice my answers out loud?
Yes. Toggle Speak inside any predicted question and record up to 90 seconds — transcription runs through OpenAI Whisper (~95% accurate on tech terms like Kafka, RLHF, ATS). The transcript lands in the editable answer box so you can fix anything before calibrating. Type or speak in 99+ languages — Claude reads it the same way; AI calibration of your answer comes back in your report's language (English or French today). Recording and transcription are free; AI calibration costs the same 1 credit as a typed answer, if you choose to use it. Audio is sent to Whisper for transcription and discarded right after — never stored.
Can I sign in with Google or LinkedIn?
Yes — Continue with Google and Continue with LinkedIn both work from inside the extension. Email + 6-digit code is also there as a fallback (no password to remember). Sign-in is handled by Clerk; we never see your password or social-provider tokens.
Which job boards does it work on?
LinkedIn Jobs, Greenhouse, Lever, and Levels.fyi are fully supported. Calibrd injects into those pages and extracts the JD automatically. Other boards aren't supported yet.
Does it work for non-English job postings?
Calibrd reads job postings in any language. Generated content (cover letter, predicted questions, AI coaching) comes in English or French today — you choose the language per report. For other languages the analysis still works, but you'll want to translate the drafted cover letter yourself. More output languages are on the roadmap.
Does Calibrd work in my country?
Yes. Calibrd is a browser extension that reads any job posting, so it works in any country — there's no regional restriction. Reports come in English or French today. Browse interview guides by country →
Does Calibrd store my CV?
No. Your CV stays in Chrome's local extension storage on your device. It's sent to our API over HTTPS during report generation only — never persisted server-side, never used to train any model.
How accurate is the compensation data?
Compensation benchmarks are AI-estimated based on the role, level, and location in the JD. Directional, not guaranteed — useful as a negotiation anchor.
Does it work without a CV?
Yes. Without a CV you still get predicted questions, comp benchmark, and company snapshot. Adding your CV unlocks the match score and personalised gap analysis.
From the founder
I watched brilliant people fail interviews they were made for — not from lack of skill, but from practising without a strategy for the interview in front of them.
XG
Xiaochen Guo
Founder · Director of Eng, King & Microsoft Gaming
LinkedIn ↗

A decade leading eng — from Head of Engineering at a Series A fintech to Director of Engineering at King (250M players) and Microsoft Gaming. 500+ interviews on both sides of the table. When it was my turn to job-hunt, nothing gave me what I needed. So I built it.

10+Years leading eng
250MPlayers at King & Xbox
500+Interviews conducted
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