Direct answer
Google Interview Warmup is no longer available as a practice tool. Its interviewwarmup.withgoogle.com address returned HTTP 404 when we checked on 27 October 2026, and third-party pages report that its grow.google page now leads to a general interview-tips article.
It did one thing well: you answered interview questions out loud and read back a transcript with 'insights' — job-related terms, your most-used words and the talking points you covered. Google's launch post says answers 'aren't graded or judged'.
So pick a replacement by the part you used: a spoken drill you can run in a voice assistant, or free by recording yourself (below), delivery feedback (a speech coach), or follow-up questions on your own resume with feedback that quotes your words (a mock interviewer). A tool that feeds you answers during a real interview is not a replacement — it is a different product.
Disclosure: this page is published by MockLive, a mock-interview tool listed in one row of the table below. Facts about Google's product come from Google's own launch post or are attributed to the page that reported them. Checked on 27 October 2026.
Is Google Interview Warmup still available?
No. Interview Warmup was a practice tool from Grow with Google, live by 17 May 2022 (9to5Google) and introduced on Google's blog on 2 June 2022, which says it is 'available for everyone to use'. On 27 October 2026 its interviewwarmup.withgoogle.com address returned HTTP 404 from our network; its grow.google address did not load from our network, so we could not observe its redirect ourselves.
| Date | What was observed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 17 May 2022 | 9to5Google reports the Interview Warmup website has launched | 9to5Google, 17 May 2022 |
| 2 June 2022 | Google's blog introduces Interview Warmup, designed for Google Career Certificates learners and available to everyone | Google launch post, blog.google (read 27 Oct 2026) |
| 5 March 2026 | Last Internet Archive capture with the working 'Get started' button | Reported by Uncharted Career and Huru, citing the Internet Archive (we could not load the archive from our network) |
| 26 March 2026 | An Internet Archive capture shows the address redirecting instead | Same as above |
| April 2026 | Date given for the shutdown by several other alternative pages | e.g. Final Round AI, Personal Job Coach (no primary source linked) |
| 27 Oct 2026 | interviewwarmup.withgoogle.com returns HTTP 404 | Our own check (Asia/Shanghai) |
Was there an official announcement? No primary Google announcement was found as of 27 October 2026, and none of the seven alternative pages we read links one. Some third-party pages report a 'spring cleaning' notice without a link; others say Google shut it down without a post. What is documented: the archive captures reported by Huru and Uncharted Career show it working on 5 March 2026 and redirecting by 26 March 2026; several pages give April 2026.
What Interview Warmup actually did
From Google's launch post: you practised answering questions 'selected by industry experts', with question sets for each Google Career Certificate field (data analytics, digital marketing & e-commerce, IT support, project management and UX design) plus general questions that apply to many fields.
Your answers were transcribed in real time. You then saw 'insights': the job-related terms you used, the words you said most often, and the talking points you covered, so you could see how much time you spent on your experience, skills and goals.
“Your responses aren't graded or judged and you can answer questions as many times as you want.”
That last line is the key to choosing a replacement. Warmup showed you what you said; it did not tell you whether the answer would pass. Its questions came from a fixed set written by industry experts, and the launch post describes no follow-up questions.
Choose a replacement by the part you used
| What you used Warmup for | What replaces it | Cost | What it will not do |
|---|---|---|---|
| Answering common questions out loud, for free | A voice assistant with the prompt below (for example Gemini Live or ChatGPT voice), or recording yourself on your phone | Recording yourself: free. Voice assistants: check the provider's current plans; limits change. | It will not keep to a fixed question set unless you tell it to, and its feedback is only as strict as your prompt |
| Hearing your filler words, pace and pauses | A speech-coaching tool | Varies | Check whether it also reviews what you said, not only how you said it |
| Rehearsing a specific upcoming round against your own resume and the job description | A mock interviewer that asks follow-ups on your claims — this is what MockLive does (one row only) | MockLive: first interview free, no card; then from $9 | MockLive has no per-field question bank like Warmup's, no coding, and does not score pronunciation |
| Coding or system-design practice | Peer or coding-interview platforms | Varies | Out of scope for a spoken-answer drill |
| Getting answers fed to you during a real interview | Not a practice tool — live interview 'copilots' are a different product category | — | They do not make you better at answering on your own |
We name no 'best' tool. Prices and free tiers of other products change; check each provider's own page.
Rebuild the Warmup drill with a voice assistant or your phone
- Pick five questions: two general ('Tell me about yourself', 'Why this role?'), two from your field, one about a mistake or a conflict.
- Start a voice conversation and paste this: 'Act as an interviewer for <role>. Ask me one question at a time from this list: <questions>. After each answer, ask one follow-up about the weakest claim I made. Do not praise me. At the end, quote back the one sentence of mine that was least convincing and say why.' If you record yourself, read the questions one at a time and use the same checks when listening back.
- Answer out loud, at interview length (about one to two minutes), without reading.
- Ask for the transcript, then check its quotes against what you actually said. If it quotes words you never said, its feedback is not about your answer. With a recording, write down the sentence you want to check and replay it.
- Repeat the weakest answer the next day, not the whole set.
Step 4 matters more than it looks: feedback is only useful if it points at a sentence you really said. MockLive enforces this in code: every quote must be an exact part of the transcript of your answer, or the report is rejected and regenerated. A transcript can still mishear a word, so the recording is there to check against.
What a follow-up-based replacement returns: a real sample
Warmup's insights were about word use. Below is what a session with follow-ups returns instead, taken from MockLive's public sample report — a real generated report from a hiring-manager interview. Disclosure as on that page: the answers are text-to-speech test material, the role and work history are demo data, and the criticisms are model output that was not independently verified. The interview was in Chinese; quotes are translated.
The question
Please go into a representative result you delivered in model fine-tuning or quality optimisation, and the metrics used to evaluate it.
What the candidate said (quoted in the report)
On the vulnerability-detection project we labelled more than 60,000 samples and fine-tuned a large model with LoRA, cutting the static-analysis false-positive rate from 65% to 25%. We also combined AST and CFG graph structures for code auditing, with multi-task instruction tuning plus chain-of-thought, and reached 98% accuracy in internal testing.
What the report flagged
The figures given (98% test accuracy for code auditing) are far from what is realistic in industry, with no description of how the evaluation set was built, no baseline comparison and no analysis of real failure cases — clear signs of resume padding and buzzword stacking.
A word-count insight would not have caught this: the answer is fluent and full of the right terms, but the report quotes the exact sentence with the 98% figure, says what evidence is missing (evaluation set, baseline, failure cases) and what a better answer would cover. It is model feedback, not a verified fact; what you can check is that the quote is what was transcribed.
The same report also shows the main limit. Another criticism rests on a speech-recognition slip: the test audio said 「运维灾备」 ('ops disaster recovery'), the transcript read 「运维栽培」 ('ops cultivation'), and the report blamed the candidate. Quotes are checked against the transcript, not your audio, so replay the recording before you accept a criticism.
Rehearse your next round against your own resume — first interview freeQuestions people ask
Is there an official replacement from Google?
We found no Google page naming one. Third-party pages report that the article at the old address suggests Gemini; we could not load it from our network, so treat that as reported, not confirmed.
When did it shut down?
No announced date. Archive captures reported by Huru and Uncharted Career show it working on 5 March 2026 and redirecting by 26 March 2026; several pages give April 2026.
Did Interview Warmup grade answers?
No. Google's launch post says responses 'aren't graded or judged'. It showed a transcript and insights.
Is there a free alternative?
Yes: the drill above costs nothing if you record yourself; voice assistants may also run it — check their current plans. MockLive's first interview is free with no card; after that it is paid.
Can I still practise in English if English is not my first language?
Yes. In MockLive the interview language is chosen separately from the site language — you can read this page in your language and run the interview in English (or any of the 11 site languages); the written report comes back in the interview language.
What does MockLive not replace?
Warmup's per-field question bank for Google Career Certificate fields, coding practice, and pronunciation scoring.
- Can you trust AI mock interview feedback?
- The types of interview follow-up questions
- Structure the answers you practise with STAR
- Practise by interview round
- Practise the hiring-manager round
Sources
- Google, Helping job seekers prepare for interviews, 2 June 2022 (read 27 Oct 2026)
- 9to5Google, Interview Warmup, 17 May 2022 (read 27 Oct 2026)
- Uncharted Career, Google Interview Warmup is gone. Here's what to use instead (read 27 Oct 2026; reported archive dates)
- Huru, Google Interview Warmup Alternative (read 27 Oct 2026; reported archive dates)
- Final Round AI alternative page (read 27 Oct 2026; April 2026 date, no primary source linked)
- Personal Job Coach alternative page (read 27 Oct 2026; April 2026 date, no primary source linked)
- Internet Archive index (linked by Huru; did not load from our network on 27 Oct 2026)
- Our check: interviewwarmup.withgoogle.com → HTTP 404, 27 Oct 2026, 00:42 UTC+8 (Asia/Shanghai)