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Phone screen
Forty-five minutes, one problem, a stranger on the other end. Thinking out loud under a clock is the part nobody rehearses alone, and the part that decides it.
1:1 technical interview coaching
You keep going round the loop.
This is how you get out.
Phone screen, coding, system design, behavioral, onsite. Every round has its own bar, and most preparation only covers one of them. Crack The Loop is coaching for all of it — a coach who has sat on the other side of the table, working the whole loop with you.
coaching starts with a conversation about where the loop is breaking
Round by round
Every round, not just the one you can practice alone
Every company runs a version of the same sequence, and the rounds fail for different reasons. Your coach runs each one as a full mock — at the real bar, to the real length — then tells you what an interviewer would have written down about you afterwards.
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Coding
Your coach watches how you get there — the questions you ask, the case you forget, the moment you stop talking — not just the answer you land on.
03
System design
A vague prompt and someone pushing on your assumptions. You learn where to start, what to name, and when to stop drawing — at your level, not a generic one.
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Behavioral
The round engineers dismiss and then fail on. You build the handful of stories that carry a whole loop, and hear which ones do not land before they cost you.
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Onsite
Four of the above in a day, with your energy draining. The week before is about pace and recovery as much as technique, and it is planned that way.
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The offer
What you were doing this for. Your coach knows what the bar looks like from the other side of the table, because that is where they have sat.
Dedicated coaching
One coach, one program, the whole way through
Coaching here is not a marketplace of one-off hours. You work with the same coach across the loop, against a plan the two of you agree, and everything that happens is written down where you can both see it — under a pseudonym, not your name.
the plan
A program, not a series of hours
Which rounds to cover, in what order, and by when — built around the loop you are actually facing rather than a fixed syllabus.
the coach
The same person each time
Someone who remembers what you did last session, knows the habit you are trying to break, and can tell you when it stops showing up.
who sees what
Without your name attached
Your coach sees your work, not who you are. Across the directory, your bookings, the session and every email, the two of you know each other by a pseudonym.
between sessions
Homework, set and reviewed
Problems chosen for the gap you have, worked in your own practice room. The room records, so your coach reviews the attempt rather than the answer.
mobile loops
Build the app, not the function
Some iOS and Android loops hand you an empty project and an hour, and want something that runs. You build it in your own Xcode, screen shared, and the stills are kept for the review.
after each hour
A written recap
What went well, what to work on, and what to do before next time — written by your coach, so nothing depends on what you remember.
the record
Every session, replayable
The code as it was typed, the audio, and a transcript. Go back to the moment you got stuck and watch what you did instead of guessing.
in the room
Captions while you talk
Live subtitles of whoever else is speaking, for when an accent or a bad line gets in the way. They run inside your own browser, so the audio never leaves the session.
the dates
Deadlines the program knows about
An onsite on the 14th, an application closing Friday, a decision you are waiting on. The plan is built backwards from them.
before each hour
Tell your coach what it is for
The company, the role, the topics you are worried about — written on the booking, so the hour is shaped around the loop you are facing before it starts.
face to face
A camera, if you want one
Turn your camera on for a more personal hour, or leave it off. Video is live only and never recorded — the record is the code, the audio and the transcript.
between sessions
Practice that does not wait for your coach
A mock or mentorship round with an AI interviewer, out loud or typed, whenever you have an hour. It picks questions you have not seen and remembers earlier sessions; as a mentor it points at your code, sketches the design, or goes over handed-in homework. Always clearly an AI, and shareable with your coach.
What a session can be about
Any of these as a mock interview, run and assessed like the real thing — or as mentorship, where the hour goes on learning the part you do not know yet rather than being scored on it. You pick which when you book.
Algorithms / data structures
Android coding
Behavioral
Discussion / mentorship
Embedded coding
Embedded system design
Front-end coding
iOS coding
Project deep dive
SRE
Android live coding
Android system design
Coding + system design
Front-end system design
iOS live coding
iOS system design
Systems design
TPM program execution
TPM technical depth
Engineering management
ML system design
What it costs
The price follows the subject
Every session is a mock interview — run and assessed like the real thing — or a mentorship hour, where the time goes on teaching you the thing that keeps going wrong instead of testing you on it. Buy either one at a time, or as a program of three, five or ten, where the rate falls as the program gets longer.
one session
An hour with a coach we choose for you — whoever is strongest and free at the time you want. Sit a mock when a round is coming and you know what you are worried about; take the mentorship hour when the gap is something you have not learned yet. Either way you get the recording, the transcript and a written recap afterwards, the same as any session here.
a program
You are matched to one coach who stays with you, and the hour stops being the whole of it. They hold the plan for the loop you are facing, set homework between sessions and review the attempt rather than the answer, and carry what happened last time into the next one. The higher rate per session is buying the work that happens when you are not in the room — and it falls the longer the program runs.
Prices in US dollars, per 60-minute session. A program's sessions are yours to book whenever you need them.
Your rate is fixed when you start. If you run out and need more sessions while the program is still going, you add them at the same per-session price you began on — even if our prices have risen since. The rate is set by what you paid, not by what the list says that day.
Tell us where the loop is breaking
Say which rounds you have coming and where the last one went wrong. You get a plan for the loop, and a first session that tells you something you did not already know about your own interviewing — or you stop there.