# interviewing.io review (2026): is it worth it? > Hire engineers who passed anonymous mock technical interviews Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. interviewing.io is a marketplace where engineers practice with anonymous mock interviews, and employers hire from those whose live technical interview performance cleared a bar. Employers interview candidates anonymously on the platform and say how many engineers they want to meet. - **Category:** Hiring & Applicant Tracking - **Made by:** Interviewing.io Inc. - **Website:** https://interviewing.io - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want a test library or an ATS, because it's neither. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing interviewing.io's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **Performance-based pipeline:** Candidates are chosen by how they did in past rigorous live technical interviews, not by resume. - **Anonymous interviews:** Employers run their usual technical phone screen on the platform anonymously, which the site says avoids bias. - **Mock interviews for engineers:** The candidate side offers practice interviews with replays, covering system design, algorithms and behavioral topics. - **Fast hiring cycle:** The vendor says employers can go from first conversation to offer in as little as a week. ## Good for - Startups hiring engineers without a large recruiting team - Employers who want to see interview performance before spending time - Teams trying to reduce resume bias ## Worth knowing - The employer fee is not stated beyond paying when candidates pass your technical bar; no plan or price is listed. - Candidate mock interviews are a separate paid product, with premium interviews starting at $179. - It supplies candidates from its own pool and is not a test library or an ATS. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. interviewing.io lets you interview engineers anonymously, drawn from people whose mock technical interviews cleared a bar. It supplies candidates from its own pool, it's not a test library or an ATS, and the employer fee isn't stated beyond paying when candidates pass. - **Value for money: C.** No price is published, so we can't set it against the $74 to $149 a month this category charges. That leaves it at C. - **Free plan and trial: D.** The employers page says to get started for free, but the fee and terms aren't stated beyond paying when candidates pass your bar. We can't call that a clear trial. - **Features: C.** Performance-based candidate pipeline and anonymous interviews. It supplies candidates from its own pool and isn't an ATS or test library. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record, and the listing shows interviews to schedule with candidates you've never met. That puts it at C. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with no separate app on record. One kind of device, so C. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from interviewing.io's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among hiring and applicant tracking tools - interviewing.io's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 30 of the 101 other hiring and applicant tracking tools we grade, and level with 23. - It stands best on value for money (C, above 12 of 101) and worst on free plan and trial (D, above 64). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/hiring ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace interviewing.io you would be making video calls. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 48 of the 101 other hiring and applicant tracking tools grade higher. - You could not: Video calls. - You could not: Jobs posted to dozens of job boards at once, which takes an agreement with each board. - You could not: A library of tested questions with scores to compare candidates by. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Skills tests, Video calls, Job board posting ## Alternatives - [Karat](https://toolgpa.com/tools/karat): Expert-run technical interviews for hiring and contractor vetting. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/interviewing-io-vs-karat) - [HackerRank](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hackerrank): Coding assessments, pair-programming interviews and an AI interviewer. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hackerrank-vs-interviewing-io) - [CoderPad](https://toolgpa.com/tools/coderpad): Coding assessments and live technical interviews with AI in the editor. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/coderpad-vs-interviewing-io) - [Codility](https://toolgpa.com/tools/codility): Technical screening and live coding interviews. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/codility-vs-interviewing-io) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://interviewing.io/employers - https://interviewing.io/faq Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/interviewing-io Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).