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Recent product improvements, newest first. Dates are when the change reached everyone.

August 2026​

  • A burst of traffic no longer takes the site down. On 21 August a single source sent requests fast enough to occupy every available database connection, and for about four minutes the site returned errors — to people signed in and to visitors who were only reading the homepage. Requests that can't get a connection are now turned away in seconds rather than queuing for thirty, so a burst is absorbed and the site recovers on its own instead of falling over. We can also now adjust those limits on a running service within thirty seconds, which we were unable to do while it was happening.
  • Role suggestions now cover your whole specialty. Upload a resume and you'll see the related roles in your field, not just the generic titles. Someone working on large language models is now offered NLP, Computer Vision and MLOps Engineer; a Kubernetes engineer gets Terraform and Cloud Engineer. Previously 85 of our 217 roles could only appear if your resume headline named them exactly.
  • Roles for work beyond software. The role list now covers recruiting and staffing (including bench sales and US IT recruiting), HR, sales, finance, operations, legal, education, healthcare, marketing and traditional engineering — so uploading a resume suggests roles from your own field instead of a list of software titles.
  • Setup suggests a role from your resume. Upload a resume at setup and the role list narrows to your field, with a suggested role pre-filled and interview types ordered to suit it. If we can't tell, you still get the full list rather than an empty one.
  • A refreshed look across your account. The dashboard, your profile, the AI Interview Simulator and the subscription & plans pages have all been redesigned — same features, laid out more clearly.
  • Pausing an interview works properly again. Putting an interview on hold and coming back now resumes your thinking time where it left off, stops cleanly once that time is used up, and no longer echoes audio when you return.
  • The role picker works without a mouse. The role selector on the interview setup screen can now be operated entirely from the keyboard and is announced correctly by screen readers.
  • Recruiter session recordings are back. Recordings of recruiter-led interview sessions save reliably again after a fix to our recording pipeline.
  • Find us on X and YouTube. The site footer now links to our official X (@theinterviewsai) and YouTube channels.
  • Buttons take you where you already are. If you're signed in, marketing "Get Started" buttons now take you straight into the product instead of back to the Sign Up form.
  • Plan pages read cleanly. Every plan card now shows its full description (a display bug was cutting the last line of text in half), and upgrade prompts always match the plan you're on.
  • Cancellation emails arrive exactly once. Cancelling a subscription from your card provider's side now sends a single confirmation email, and renewal payments are always recorded against your order correctly.
  • Planned maintenance now looks planned. When we schedule maintenance you'll see a banner with the window ahead of time, and in the rare case the site is unavailable you'll get a clear "back soon" page instead of an error.
  • Smoother releases. We changed how updates roll out so the site no longer serves a mix of old and new versions during a release.
  • Refunds show up correctly. A refund on a subscription purchase is now reflected on your order immediately.
  • The consent notice in the interview room matches exactly what we do — including the correct evidence-retention window (30 days).
  • Your interview runs the full scheduled length. Sessions of every length (10–30 minutes) now keep the interviewer listening for the whole session.
  • A calmer way to finish an answer. The countdown bar that pressured you while you paused mid-answer is gone; a quiet indicator shows the interview is simply waiting for you.
  • Say "I'm done" to move on. A spoken command can submit your answer and move to the next question once you've actually said something substantive.
  • Industry-specific questions. The role you choose at setup now drives industry-tailored question packs.

July 2026​

  • Take a moment to think. Say "give me a second" and the interviewer waits — with a calm indicator instead of a countdown — until you say you're ready (or press H).
  • Fairer, comparable scoring. Graded (Lifelike) interviews all run the same length and difficulty, so recruiters compare candidates on one scale. Practice interviews keep the full choice of length and difficulty.
  • Faster first question and a more reliable connection during answers.
  • System-design interviews got a real whiteboard, and your diagram is graded as part of the interview.
  • Clearer feedback reports, including a score explainer and an accurate summary card.

Older changes are reflected throughout this documentation rather than listed here.