MockLive vs interviewing.io
Anonymous mock interviews with engineers who actually work at FAANG. The strongest option in this list for senior technical interviews, and priced accordingly.
What interviewing.io is
A technical interview platform offering anonymous mock interviews with engineers from Meta, Google, OpenAI, Amazon and other large tech companies, alongside an AI interviewer and a practice-problem library.
How practice happens
Live anonymous sessions with a working senior engineer, plus an AI interviewer for coding and system design.
How it is priced
Their site advertises free access to the AI interviewer and 200+ practice problems; the human sessions are the paid product. Check their pricing page for current rates rather than trusting a number quoted elsewhere.
In their own words
“Anonymous mock interviews with engineers from Meta, Google, OpenAI, Amazon, and other top companies”
interviewing.io homepage
What interviewing.io is better at
Answered honestly, because a comparison page where the author wins every row is an advert and reads like one.
- Interviewer quality. A working senior engineer at the company you are targeting is feedback nothing here can match, and that is the honest position.
- Senior and staff-level technical interviews, where the bar is judgement rather than whether you can produce a correct answer.
- Anonymity, which takes the social cost out of performing badly while you still can.
- Depth on algorithms, system design and machine learning specifically.
Where the two genuinely differ
| interviewing.io | MockLive | |
|---|---|---|
| Who interviews you | A real senior engineer from a large tech company. | An AI interviewer. Better availability and a fraction of the cost; not the same as a human who has run the real loop. |
| Cost per session | Human sessions are priced as expert time. | A pass works out to a few dollars a session, and less in the PPP bands. |
| Scope | Technical software engineering interviews. | Any role including non-technical, 47 languages, plus IELTS Speaking. |
| Volume | Priced so most people do a handful of sessions. | Priced so you can do twenty and still not think about it. |
Which one you should actually use
Pick interviewing.io if…
You are interviewing for a senior or staff engineering role at a large tech company and you can afford expert time. For that specific case it is the best option on this page, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise.
Pick MockLive if…
You need volume rather than a handful of expensive sessions, you are outside the FAANG-engineering track, or the exchange rate makes per-session expert pricing impossible where you live.
How to check this
Everything above about interviewing.io was read from their own site on 12 August 2026. Pricing and features in this category change without announcement — if what you see there differs from what you read here, theirs is right and ours is stale. We would rather you tell us than assume we meant it.
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7 minutes beats a comparison table
The first session is free and needs no card. It ends with a scored report against a fixed rubric and every answer replayable — which tells you more about whether this suits you than any page like this one can.