AI mock interviews for campus placements

Ace your interview with AI practice.

Candid gives engineering and MBA students unlimited mock interviews with an AI that adapts to every answer — while placement offices get the readiness analytics they're measured on.

No card required · Funded by your university · Practice in minutes

University students practicing interview questions on their laptops

Trusted by placement cells at forward-thinking campuses

Northgate Institute of TechnologyMeridian Business SchoolCascade UniversityVantage School of EngineeringHarborline PolytechnicSolstice UniversityNorthgate Institute of TechnologyMeridian Business SchoolCascade UniversityVantage School of EngineeringHarborline PolytechnicSolstice University
1M+
Practice interviews run
40+
Partner campuses
+31%
Avg. offer-rate lift
24/7
Always-on coaching
Why Candid

Practice that actually adapts to you

Every rep is a real, evolving conversation — not a static question list. Here's what students and placement teams get.

Adaptive AI interviewer

Every follow-up is generated from your last answer. Ramble and it probes; nail it and it raises the bar — just like a real panel.

Unlimited mock interviews

Technical, behavioral, HR and case rounds across engineering and MBA tracks. Practice at 2am the night before — no scheduling, no limits.

Answer-level feedback

Structured scoring on clarity, structure and depth with concrete fixes and a stronger STAR outline after every response.

Role & company targeting

Point Candid at a role — SDE, analyst, consultant, product — and get questions calibrated to that track's real bar.

Placement-outcome analytics

Placement offices see cohort readiness, weak competencies and at-risk students — the metrics universities are actually ranked on.

Private by design

No facial or body-language scoring. We assess what you say, not how you look — measurable, fair and free of legal risk.

Competitive positioning

We built for the gaps the others left open.

Candid isn't another live-assistant or a static warm-up. It's deliberate, adaptive practice at university scale — plus the placement analytics institutions are ranked on.

Final Round AI

Leaves open: Built for live interview assistance, not repeatable practice.

Candid: Deliberate, unlimited reps with adaptive follow-ups and scored feedback.

Interviewing.io

Leaves open: Premium human mocks that don't scale to a whole graduating class.

Candid: Every student gets always-on practice — funded once by the university.

Google Interview Warmup

Leaves open: Static question sets with no scoring or institutional visibility.

Candid: Adaptive rounds plus a placement dashboard TPOs can act on.

The honest choice

We killed body-language scoring. On purpose.

Facial and body-language analysis is legally risky and easy to bias against the people who need help most. So we dropped it — and doubled down on what a real recruiter actually evaluates: the substance of your answers.

  • No camera scoring, no appearance signals — ever.
  • Reposition around measurable placement outcomes.
  • Fairer for every student, defensible for every institution.
Live demo

Take a real interview, right now

This isn't a video. It's a live adaptive interviewer — pick a track, answer out loud, and get scored feedback in seconds.

Candid — live interview roomAI adaptive

Pick a track and difficulty, then start a real adaptive interview — right here.

Placement team reviewing student readiness analytics
78%
Cohort readiness
42
Students at risk
3.1k
Interviews / week
For training & placement offices

Own the placement outcomes you're ranked on.

Candid's analytics dashboard turns thousands of practice interviews into the signal your placement cell needs — so coaching lands where it counts, before recruiters arrive on campus.

Spot at-risk students early

Readiness scores by student, branch and competency — flagged weeks before drives begin.

Target coaching that moves the needle

See exactly which skills a cohort is weak on and direct limited faculty time accordingly.

Report outcomes with confidence

Track improvement over a placement season and show measurable readiness gains to leadership.

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Social proof

Students land offers. Cells look ahead.

Sample stories from the kind of campuses Candid is built for.

I ran twelve mock interviews the week before placements. By the real one, the questions felt familiar and my structure held up. Landed my first-choice SDE offer.
Aisha Verma
Aisha Verma
Final-year CSE · Northgate Institute of Technology
The follow-up questions actually adapt. It caught that I was hand-waving on system design and kept digging until I tightened it up.
Rohan Iyer
Rohan Iyer
MBA candidate · Meridian Business School
For our placement cell, the analytics are the win. We finally see which students need coaching before recruiters arrive on campus.
Dr. Neha Kulkarni
Dr. Neha Kulkarni
Head of Training & Placement · Cascade University
Pricing

One institutional contract. Every student covered.

Candid is funded by universities as a seasonal placement-prep benefit — so students practice unlimited, for free.

Students

At partner campuses

Free

Funded by your university

  • Unlimited adaptive mock interviews
  • Technical, behavioral, HR & case rounds
  • Answer-level scoring & feedback
  • Role & company targeting
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University contract

Unlimited seasonal access, per student

$24/ student / year

Blended global rate · billed as one institutional contract

  • Every enrolled student, unlimited practice
  • Placement-outcome analytics dashboard
  • At-risk student & competency flags
  • Dedicated onboarding & season support
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Consortium

Multi-campus groups

Custom

Volume pricing across campuses

  • Everything in University contract
  • Cross-campus benchmarking
  • Custom question banks & branding
  • Priority integration support
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FAQ

Questions, answered candidly

Yes — when your university partners with Candid, every enrolled student gets unlimited seasonal placement-prep access at no personal cost. Institutions fund it as a single contract.

Walk in candid. Walk out with the offer.

Join the waitlist to be first in line when Candid opens on your campus — or bring it to your placement cell.

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