Is Google Interview Warmup still available?
It appears to be gone. On October 24, 2026, both of its addresses, grow.google/interview-warmup and grow.google/certificates/interview-warmup, returned a permanent redirect to a general Grow with Google article called "Interview tips." The practice tool itself no longer loads. Google's pages checked for this review don't announce a shutdown.
The old address, https://grow.google/interview-warmup/, is the one Google's own launch post told people to use. It now lands on the Interview tips article, dated December 11, 2025, and credited to the Grow with Google Editorial Team. That article covers the STAR method, common question types and follow-up notes.
So this review describes Interview Warmup as Google described it at launch, then looks at what Google points you to now. If Google brings the tool back, the comparison below will need to be checked again.
What did Interview Warmup do when it launched?
Interview Warmup let you answer practice questions out loud and see your answers transcribed. Google announced it on June 2, 2022, in a post by Jesse Haines, Director of Grow with Google. Machine learning showed patterns in each answer, such as the job terms you used and the words you said most often.
The launch post says the questions were "selected by industry experts." It was designed for learners in Google Career Certificates, with question sets for each certificate, plus general questions for many fields. The post names fields such as data analytics, IT support, project management and UX design.
It could also "highlight the different talking points you cover in each answer," so you could see how long you spent on experience, skills and goals. The post was clear about what it left out: "Your responses aren't graded or judged."
Where did a free Google tool beat paid ones?
It was free, private and unlimited, which most paid practice tools aren't. The launch post called it "your own private space to practice" and said you could answer "as many times as you want." For a nervous first-time interviewer, a free place to say answers out loud with no score attached was a good start.
The transcript was the useful part. Reading your own answer back shows you things you can't hear while you're talking: the sentence you started three times, or the project you never named. Interview Warmup gave that to anyone, at no cost.
No score was a strength too. A number out of 100 can make you chase the tool's idea of a good answer. Warmup showed you what you said and left the judgment to you.
How do Interview Warmup and Prept compare feature by feature?
They sit on opposite sides of the interview. Interview Warmup was practice before it, and Prept is review after it, with resume tailoring added. The table uses the same rows as every Prept comparison page. Warmup's cells come from Google's 2022 launch post, since the tool no longer loaded on October 24, 2026.
| Feature | Prept | Google Interview Warmup |
|---|---|---|
| Help during a live interview | No, by design (analysis after the call, never during it) | Not offered |
| Practice or mock interviews | No | Yes, when it ran: expert-written questions, with your answers transcribed in real time |
| Debrief of a real recorded interview | Yes, transcribed and debriefed, quotes the moment you lost the room | Not offered |
| Resume review with an ATS score and reasons | Yes | Not offered |
| Resume tailored to each posting | Yes | Not offered |
| Every claim checked against facts you confirmed | Yes; numbers you can't stand behind are left off rather than invented | Not stated on its site |
| Job posting fit check | Yes, scored with the reasons | Not offered |
| LinkedIn profile help | Yes (headline free, full profile on Search) | Not offered |
| Job application tracker | No standalone tracker; each application keeps its tailored resume and rounds | Not offered |
| Free tier | One of everything, no card | The whole tool was free; its address now redirects |
| Lowest paid price (USD) | $29 a month, or $69 a quarter | No paid plan |
| Pick it if | You've had real interviews and want to know what went wrong in them | It returns and you want free, ungraded practice before your first interviews |
Prices for Prept come from Prept's pricing page, checked October 24, 2026. The free tier needs no card and includes 1 interview hour transcribed and debriefed. Search is $29 a month or $69 a quarter, with 7 days free and nothing charged until day 8.
What does Google point you to now instead?
Google's Interview tips article now points to Gemini Live for practice. It says the Gemini mobile app offers Gemini Live, "which you can use to simulate a real-time, conversational interview." Gemini Live is a general voice assistant, so it doesn't have Warmup's expert question sets or its talking-point view.
The Gemini Live page describes "a natural, back-and-forth AI voice chat directly in the Gemini app." It also says "Some features require setup or subscription," and a banner offered college students a free Pro plan for one year. Gemini's subscription prices weren't checked for this page.
The tips article also suggests a Coursera course, Accelerate Your Job Search with AI, which teaches prompting for resume feedback, a job tracker and practice with Gemini Live. Use any of these to prepare. In the interview itself, most employers that publish a rule ask for no AI; is using AI in a job interview cheating covers where the line sits.
What can't a practice tool do after the call?
A practice tool can't review an interview it never heard. Warmup showed you how you answer a question in a quiet room. It couldn't show you what you said to a real interviewer, which follow-up threw you or where the conversation turned. That's usually where the reason for a rejection is.
Prept's job is analysis after the call, never during it. With everyone's consent, it transcribes a round you recorded on your laptop and writes a debrief that quotes the moment you lost the room. It asks you to confirm consent before every recording. The script is in how to ask to record your interview.
You can review a round without any tool. The free 10-minute debrief template works from memory, and it does for a real interview what Warmup's transcript did for practice: it puts your answers on the page where you can read them.
Which tool should you use now that Warmup is gone?
For free practice, start with your school's career center or a tool with a free plan. For a review of a real round, use a debrief: the free template, or Prept's free tier with one interview hour. Most people need practice before round one and a debrief after every round.
Two pages compare practice tools that are still running. Prept vs Yoodli covers a tool with a free starter plan of up to 5 roleplays. Prept vs Big Interview covers a paid course that many universities give students for free.
If you want every free option side by side, the list of free interview feedback tools compares the free tiers. Check each one's own page before you sign up, because, as Warmup shows, free tools can disappear.