I think most interview prep advice is solving the wrong problem.

Hey everyone,

I think most interview prep advice is solving the wrong problem.

Everyone focuses on:
“tell better stories”
“improve your answers”
“practice behavioral questions”

But a growing part of hiring isn’t even that anymore.

It’s:

• game-based assessments
• one-way video interviews
• automated screens with no human involved

And people are failing these before they even get a real interview.

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The real problem isn’t skill. It’s unfamiliarity.

You get invited to something like a HireVue assessment and:

• you’ve never seen the interface
• you don’t know the timing
• you don’t know what’s being evaluated

You get one shot, no feedback, and you’re out.

That’s not a “skills gap.”
That’s a format gap.

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So I built something different

Instead of teaching people how to interview, I built Candidate Falcon to let them:

→ practice the exact assessment format they’re about to face

Not tips. Not theory.

Actual simulations:

• game mechanics
• time pressure
• async video recording flow

The goal is simple: remove the “what is this?” moment.

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What surprised me

I didn’t start with a big vision.

I built two small tools:

• one for game-based assessments
• one for async video interviews

Both started getting traction on their own.

That’s when it clicked:
this isn’t a niche problem, it’s just ignored.

Most platforms go broad.
This only works if you go narrow and deep.

That's when I understood that, if I wanted to expand I needed only one place where to offer them all, rather than having scattered places all over the web, each focusing only on 1 single prep type. That's why I started Candidate Falcon

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My uncomfortable take

We’ve basically accepted a hiring system where:

• candidates are judged by formats they’ve never seen
• performance is heavily influenced by familiarity with the tool
• and there’s almost no way to practice beforehand

And we call that “fair.”

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What I’m trying to figure out now

• Do I double down on a few formats or expand aggressively?
• Are people willing to pay for “format familiarity” at scale?
• What’s the best channel beyond SEO for this kind of intent?

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Curious what you think:

If you’ve taken one of these assessments, did it actually feel like it was testing your ability…

or just how quickly you adapted to a weird system?

Site: candidatefalcon.com