Why I built this
I'm a software developer and the founder of a development agency in Sydney. I've spent a lot of my career on the hiring side — running interviews, sitting on panels, evaluating candidates for technical and leadership roles.
The pattern I kept seeing was hard to watch. Smart people with real experience would come into interviews and fall apart. They'd blank on questions they clearly knew the answers to. They'd ramble when they needed to be tight. They'd undersell themselves in the moments that mattered most. It was never a skills problem. It was always a practice problem.
They'd prepared by reading. By memorising answers. By looking up "common interview questions" the night before. What they hadn't done was actually sit in the chair, get asked something hard, and answer it out loud under pressure. And that's the only thing that builds the muscle.
When my daughters started interviewing — one partway through university, one in her final year of high school — I watched it happen again, up close. The gap between how good they actually were and how they came across under pressure was painful to see. Not because they weren't capable. Because they hadn't had a chance to practise.
So most people walk into their most important interviews having never properly rehearsed — practised alone, hoping what they'd read would translate under pressure. It usually doesn't. The gap is real, and it's fixable. That's what InterviewZap is here to do.