No, Google Interview Warmup isn't available anymore. On October 2, 2026, interviewwarmup.withgoogle.com returns a 404, and its old Grow with Google pages redirect to a general "Interview tips" article. Something many people forget: Warmup never graded you. Google said so in its own launch post. So a lookalike won't help much. Pick a tool that does the two things Warmup never did.
Google shut it down quietly, without a post on its own blog. The public web archive shows it going away in steps:
grow.google/certificates/interview-warmup) was still live on December 9, 2025 and redirecting by December 16, 2025.grow.google/interview-warmup) still showed its "Get started" button on March 5, 2026 and was redirecting by March 26, 2026.Several alternative pages date the end to April 2026. Treat April as the reported date, and late March 2026 as the last time the archive saw the landing page working.
Less than people remember. Google launched it on June 2, 2022. You picked a field and answered questions out loud while it typed out what you said. Then it showed patterns: job-related terms you used, words you repeated, and time spent on experience, skills and goals.
The line that matters is in that same 2022 post. "Your responses aren't graded or judged and you can answer questions as many times as you want."
So Warmup was a mirror with a transcript attached. It caught your "ums." It had no idea whether your answer was any good, and its fixed list of questions never pushed back.
Two things. It should ask a follow-up based on what you just said. And it should tell you, from the outside, how your answer came across.
The follow-up is where real interviews go wrong. Picture Thursday at 10am. You give a clean, rehearsed answer to "tell me about a project that went wrong." The interviewer nods, then asks "why didn't you flag it sooner?" Nobody rehearses that one. A fixed list can't ask it, because it never heard you.
The outside view matters because you know what you meant, so you forgive your own rambling.
Warmup is gone, but the habit it built still works: say your answers out loud. Start with your "project that went wrong" story. UnchartedCareer runs full mock interviews by voice and gives you a scored report on every answer, so you know exactly what to fix. Sign up and pick up where Warmup left off today.
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Nothing carries the Warmup name. The Grow with Google interview tips article at the old address points you to Gemini Live in the Gemini phone app. Google says you can use it "to simulate a real-time, conversational interview, providing instant, structured feedback on your responses." That's a real option. You just have to set it up yourself.
| Option | Asks follow-ups | Feedback you get | Cost to start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini Live (Google's pick) | Yes, if you prompt it as an interviewer | Conversational feedback when you ask for it | Free |
| ChatGPT voice mode | Yes, if you prompt it | Conversational feedback when you ask for it | Free |
| Yoodli | Yes, in its roleplays | Speech analytics such as filler words and pacing | Free tier of 5 lifetime sessions |
| UnchartedCareer | Yes, adaptive by default | Scored report after every mock | Paid plan after sign-up |
| Record yourself on your phone | Only the ones you write | Whatever you catch on playback | Free |
Gemini Live and ChatGPT are free and flexible, but polite by default, so you have to ask for the hard follow-up. Yoodli is strong on delivery numbers, the closest thing to what Warmup measured. Still, no AI interviewer is a room full of humans. For a wider field, see our roundup of AI mock interview tools.
On Gemini or ChatGPT, paste this first: "Act as a hiring manager for a [role] interview. Ask me one question at a time. After each answer, ask one follow-up that targets the weakest part of what I said. Don't praise me. After five questions, tell me which answer was weakest and why."
You can rebuild Warmup in 15 minutes with your phone propped against a mug.
Step 4 is where practicing alone runs out. You wrote the follow-up, so you saw it coming.
No. As of October 2, 2026, the tool's address returns a 404 and its Grow with Google pages redirect to a general interview tips article.
Web archive captures show the landing page working on March 5, 2026 and redirecting by March 26, 2026. Several third-party pages report an April 2026 shutdown.
No. Google's June 2, 2022 launch post said "Your responses aren't graded or judged."
Yes. Gemini Live and ChatGPT voice mode will play an interviewer if you prompt them, and recording yourself on your phone costs nothing.
Tonight, record one answer to "Tell me about a time you missed a deadline," then answer "Why didn't you see it coming?" out loud without stopping the camera.
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