Screenshots: Grow with Google, Huru, Yoodli and interviewing.io official pages, October 25, 2026
I have worked in IT for about twenty years, and when a friend or a junior colleague has an interview coming up, the first thing I tell them is to say their answers out loud. Google Interview Warmup used to make that easy and free. If you are searching for it now, you have probably noticed that it does not seem to work any more. This guide follows the searches people run next on Google (is it still available, is there a free replacement, what about AI, why is it not working) and shows how to rebuild the same habit with tools that exist today.
Quick answer- Is Warmup still available? When I requested its old address on October 25, 2026, it returned a general Grow with Google interview guide instead of the tool. Sources disagree on when it ended (see below).
- Google's own suggestion now: that guide points to Gemini Live in the Gemini mobile app for AI interview practice.
- Free spoken practice with feedback: Huru says every feature is free for job seekers, and Yoodli has a free Starter plan with 5 lifetime sessions.
- Coding and system design: interviewing.io offers an AI interviewer, per its own homepage.
Jump to: Still available? | Free alternatives | AI practice | Huru | Yoodli | Practice tools | Not working | Free mock apps | Final pick | FAQ
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Is Google Interview Warmup Still Available?
Image: Grow with Google (official page, screenshot October 25, 2026)
Here is what I could check myself. I requested the old Warmup address, grow.google/certificates/interview-warmup/, on October 25, 2026. What came back was Grow with Google's article How to Prepare for an Interview, dated December 11, 2025, not an interview tool. I could not find a shutdown notice from Google in anything I read.
The timing is where sources disagree. Huru's comparison page says the tool was retired in March 2026 and cites Internet Archive captures (last working capture March 5, 2026, redirecting by March 26). A guide from Copilot Interview says Google retired it in April 2026. Devana's comparison page, updated October 19, 2026, says the address now redirects to the Grow with Google homepage and that it found no announcement and no official replacement. All three are sellers of competing interview tools, so treat the dates as their reading of the evidence, not as Google's word. What all of them agree on is the practical point: it no longer works at its old address.
Image: Huru (official page, screenshot October 25, 2026)
As Huru and Devana recap it, Warmup let you answer questions out loud, showed a live transcript, listed the words you used most and the talking points you covered, and did not grade you. It had question sets for a handful of fields and no coding or system design track. That recap comes from their pages, not from Google's launch post, which I did not read.
Image: Huru (official page, screenshot October 25, 2026)
My take (20 years in IT): Do not rebuild your whole routine around one free tool from a big company. Free tools get retired with no warning, as this one shows. The habit is what matters, so keep your questions and your recordings in your own notes where you can move them to any tool.
Google Interview Warmup Alternatives (Free)
Think about what you want from a replacement before you pick one. A spoken answer rather than a typed one, because typing hides pauses and rambling. A transcript or recording so you can listen back. Follow-up questions, because real interviewers dig. And for technical roles, a way to practice coding aloud. Here is how the options I read about compare.
| Option | What it gives you | Free tier (per its own page unless noted) | Watch out for |
|---|
| Gemini Live (Google) | Voice conversation; Google says it can simulate a real-time interview with structured feedback | Some features need setup or a subscription; I did not verify plan limits | No fixed question library or scoring rubric |
| Huru | AI interviewer, one-question-at-a-time mode, scored feedback report | Says all job-seeker features are free (since September 28, 2026, per its page) | Free-for-everyone is the vendor's claim; plans can change |
| Yoodli | AI roleplays and feedback on uploaded recordings | Starter plan: 5 lifetime sessions; any session over 30 seconds counts | On Starter and Pro, session data may be used to improve the platform |
| interviewing.io | Mock interviews with engineers; AI interviewer for coding and system design | AI interviewer is free to try, per its homepage | Human sessions are paid (from $179 per Devana and Copilot Interview, not read on its pricing page) |
| A friend, mentor or career center | Real follow-ups and honest feedback | Free | Hard to schedule often |
| Your phone recorder | Hear what you actually said | Free | No feedback unless you review it yourself |
Aced Practice (formerly Pramp) is often listed as a free peer option, with 5 peer mocks a month on its basic plan. That figure comes from Devana's and Copilot Interview's pages. Aced's own site would not load for me, so I could not confirm it.
Google Interview Warmup AI: What Google Suggests Now
Image: Grow with Google (official page, screenshot October 25, 2026)
The Grow with Google article is useful even without the tool. It describes four kinds of questions you are likely to meet: "tell me about yourself", behavioral, situational, and general or personality questions. It recommends the STAR method (situation, task, action, result) for behavioral questions, a 30 to 60 second "elevator pitch" for the first question, and a thank-you note within 24 hours.
Image: Grow with Google (official page, screenshot October 25, 2026)
For practice it lists three routes: a session with a friend, mentor or career counselor, recording yourself, or AI tools. As an example of the AI route it names Gemini Live in the Gemini mobile app, which it says you can use to simulate a real-time conversational interview with instant structured feedback. I read the article but did not test Gemini Live, and Copilot Interview's guide notes that Google's Gemini Live page says some features need setup or a subscription, so check what your account includes.
Example prompt (mine, not tested)"You are interviewing me for a [role] position. Ask one question at a time and wait for my full answer. After each answer, ask one follow-up a real interviewer would ask. After every three questions, tell me which answer was weakest and why, and whether each answer said what I personally did. Do not praise answers that did not answer the question."
Interview Warmup AI Free: Huru
Image: Huru (official page, screenshot October 25, 2026)
Huru is the option most comparison pages push as the closest like-for-like replacement, and its own page describes it that way. It says you answer real interview questions out loud for any of 242+ roles, either in a live conversation with an AI interviewer that asks follow-ups or one question at a time, and that each answer gets a score out of 100 with what to fix and a stronger version. It also says every feature for job seekers is free and that it has a web app, an iOS app and a Chrome extension.
Image: Huru (official page, screenshot October 25, 2026)
Image: Huru (official page, screenshot October 25, 2026)
Image: Huru (official page, screenshot October 25, 2026)
All of that is Huru's own description, and I did not run a session. Two cautions. A score out of 100 comes from the vendor's own model, so treat it as a prompt for thinking, not a verdict. And "free for everyone" is a pricing decision the company can change, so do not build a plan on it.
Who should pick Huru General and behavioral interviewsYou want spoken practice with follow-up questions and written feedback at no cost. Skip it if your interview is a coding round, or if you are not comfortable with an AI service holding recordings of your voice and face until you have read its privacy terms.
Google Warmup Alternative With a Free Plan: Yoodli
Image: Yoodli (official page, screenshot October 25, 2026)
Yoodli is a speaking-practice tool that also covers interview roleplays. Its pricing page says individuals can start free, that the Starter plan includes 5 lifetime sessions, and that any practice session longer than 30 seconds counts as a session. The Pro plan is $8 a month billed annually with up to 10 roleplays a week, and Advanced is $20 a month billed annually with unlimited roleplays.
Image: Yoodli (official page, screenshot October 25, 2026)
The detail worth reading is the data policy. Yoodli's page says session data may be used to improve the platform on the Starter and Pro plans, and that data is excluded from AI training by default on Advanced, Business and Enterprise plans. If you plan to talk about a real employer or a real project, that difference matters.
My take (20 years in IT): Five lifetime sessions is not a practice habit, it is a sample. Use them on your hardest question types, not on warm-ups, and keep the free phone recorder for the daily reps.
Image: interviewing.io (official page, screenshot October 25, 2026)
Warmup never covered coding or system design, which is how Devana's comparison describes it. For those rounds, interviewing.io's homepage advertises anonymous mock interviews with engineers from large tech companies and an AI interviewer for coding, system design and machine learning. I did not read its pricing page, which returned a 404. Devana and Copilot Interview both put human sessions at $179 and up, so treat that as secondhand.
Image: interviewing.io (official page, screenshot October 25, 2026)
Devana also sells an AI mock interview product and says so in its own comparison, so I used its page only for the Warmup timeline and the market overview, not as a recommendation.
Google Interview Warmup Not Working? What to Try
- Stop troubleshooting your browser. Clearing cache will not bring back a tool whose address now returns a different page.
- Check where the old link goes. If it lands on the Grow with Google interview guide, that is the redirect described above.
- Switch to one of the alternatives and carry over your question list.
- Ignore sites that promise the original tool. Be careful with any page that claims to host Interview Warmup; I could not verify any such copy.
Best Free Mock Interview Apps: A 20-Minute Routine That Replaces Warmup
Whatever tool you choose, this is the routine I would use. It is my own suggestion, not from a source.
- 5 minutes: pick three questions you expect and write one line per answer naming the point you want to make.
- 10 minutes: answer all three out loud and record them, with any option above or just your phone.
- 5 minutes: listen back. Did each answer make its point? Mark the weakest and redo it tomorrow.
My take (20 years in IT): Treat any tool that records your voice or video like a recruiter would treat a reference check. Read what it keeps, whether you can delete it, and whether it trains on it. Do not read out confidential details about a current employer.
Final Recommendation
- General and behavioral interviews: Huru if you accept the vendor's free claim, or Gemini Live if you want a Google product and have the access.
- A few high-value sessions: Yoodli Starter, used on your hardest questions.
- Coding and system design: interviewing.io.
- Zero cost, zero accounts: your phone recorder and the prompt above in any voice assistant.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Google Interview Warmup still available?
Not at its old address. When I requested it on October 25, 2026, it returned a general Grow with Google interview guide. Sources disagree on whether it ended in March or April 2026, and I found no Google announcement.
Is there a free alternative to Google Interview Warmup?
Yes. Huru says all of its job-seeker features are free, Yoodli has a free Starter plan with 5 lifetime sessions, and Google suggests Gemini Live for AI practice. Check each tool's page for current limits.
Does Google suggest a replacement?
Its interview guide points to Gemini Live in the Gemini mobile app for simulated real-time interview practice. It does not name a direct successor to Warmup.
Did Interview Warmup grade your answers?
According to Huru's and Devana's recaps, no. It showed a transcript and insights such as your most-used words and talking points, and it did not grade you.
Can I use an AI assistant instead?
Yes, with a clear prompt that asks one question at a time and follows up. Expect it to be more polite than a real interviewer, and check what the provider does with your recordings or text.
Try These Tools
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Sources
- Grow with Google, How to Prepare for an Interview (December 11, 2025; old Warmup address checked October 25, 2026)
- Huru, Google Interview Warmup alternative (vendor page, read October 25, 2026)
- Devana, Google Interview Warmup alternatives (vendor page, updated October 19, 2026)
- Copilot Interview, Best Google Interview Warmup alternatives (vendor guide, October 2026)
- Yoodli, Pricing (read October 25, 2026)
- interviewing.io, Home page (read October 25, 2026)
Screenshots come from each maker's official page, are framed here, and belong to their owners. Google, Gemini and Interview Warmup are trademarks of their owners and this blog is not affiliated with them. This is general information, not career advice.
Last updated: October 25, 2026. Sources read October 25, 2026.
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