Google Interview Warmup Is Gone: What Happened and What to Use Now
No, Google Interview Warmup is no longer available. Google retired it and never posted a shutdown date. Its retirement notice was online by December 24, 2025, and today the old grow.google address opens a general article, “How to prepare for an interview,” that suggests Gemini Live for practice. Below: what happened, what Warmup did, and what to use now for free spoken practice, feedback, questions for your role and technical rounds.
Pardon the detour!
We're doing a little spring cleaning and have decided to retire Interview Warmup.
Disclosure: OphyAI makes one of the tools on this page, OphyAI Interview Practice. We checked every other tool on its own website on November 8, 2026 and left out anything we could not confirm there.
The short answer
Is Google Interview Warmup still available?
No. Here is what we found on November 8, 2026.
Status
Retired by Google
Notice online by
Dec 24, 2025
Old address now
Tips article
Google suggests
Gemini Live
Interview Warmup was Google's free practice tool from Grow with Google. By late 2025 it ran on Google Skills. Google's only explanation was a one-line notice about “spring cleaning.” Today, grow.google/certificates/interview-warmup/ and grow.google/interview-warmup redirect (HTTP 301) to the “How to prepare for an interview” article, and skills.google/interview_warmup shows “Page not found.” Google has not named a direct replacement. The article suggests Gemini Live, a voice feature in the Gemini app.
Google never announced a date. These dates come from Google's own pages and from Internet Archive copies of them.
June 2, 2022
Grow with Google launches Interview Warmup. It was built for Google Career Certificate learners, and Google said it was "available for everyone to use."
The earliest archived copy of Google's retirement notice on Google Skills: "Pardon the detour! We're doing a little spring cleaning and have decided to retire Interview Warmup."
Grow with Google's Interview Warmup info page still loads on March 5, 2026, and is redirecting by March 26, 2026. Some articles date the shutdown to March.
We checked again. grow.google/certificates/interview-warmup/ and grow.google/interview-warmup send you (HTTP 301) to a general article, "How to prepare for an interview," and skills.google/interview_warmup shows "Page not found."
It showed the job-related terms you used, the words you said most often and the talking points you covered. Google said, "Your responses aren't graded or judged."
Google's page said, "We don't save your audio or the transcripts of your answers." You could copy an answer or download the full transcript at the end.
What it did not do: it did not score your answers or tell you what was right or wrong. That was by design.
What to use now
Pick a replacement by what you used Warmup for
Most people used Warmup for one of four things. Start there.
If you want
Free spoken practice
Try: Gemini Live, ChatGPT voice mode or Huru
Gemini Live is in Google's free Gemini plan. ChatGPT's free plan includes limited voice chats. Huru is free for everyone. OphyAI's Free plan covers one practice session of up to 15 minutes.
If you want
Feedback on each answer
Try: OphyAI Interview Practice, Huru or Yoodli
OphyAI gives each answer a percentage score, suggestions and an example of a strong answer. Huru scores each answer and rewrites it stronger. Yoodli reports structure, clarity, conciseness, pacing and filler words.
If you want
Questions for your role
Try: OphyAI Interview Practice or Huru
OphyAI asks role-specific questions and follows up on your answers. Huru covers 242+ roles, or builds questions from a job description you paste.
If you want
Technical questions
Try: interviewing.io AI Interviewer or OphyAI Coding Practice
interviewing.io says its AI Interviewer is free and does coding and system design interviews. OphyAI Coding Practice has 4 free sample problems, and the full library comes with Pro ($29 a month).
What you get, what it costs and the downsides. Prices are as each site listed them on November 8, 2026, in US dollars.
01OphyAI Interview Practice
Our pick, made by us
Best for: Scored practice for your role, out loud or typed
What you get
Role-specific questions in voice or text, with follow-up questions on your answers.
Each answer gets a percentage score, suggestions to improve it and an example of a strong answer.
Timed practice in text mode (30 seconds to 2 minutes per answer), with speech-to-text if you would rather speak.
An average score across your sessions, and a transcript you can export.
Works on the web and in the OphyAI iPhone and Android apps.
Price
Free plan: the one-time 5-credit sign-up grant covers one session of up to 15 minutes, with no credit card. After that, Pro is $29 a month for 300 credits; a text session uses 10 credits and a voice session 15.
Downsides
Only one free session. Regular practice needs a paid plan.
It does not record video, so it cannot show you how you look on camera.
Best for: Free voice practice, the way Google now suggests
What you get
Google's interview tips article, where the old Warmup address now goes, suggests Gemini Live to "simulate a real-time, conversational interview, providing instant, structured feedback on your responses."
A voice conversation in the Gemini app. You can switch between talking and typing in the same chat.
Google also points to its "Accelerate Your Job Search with AI" course on Coursera, which teaches interview practice with Gemini Live.
Price
Gemini Live is part of Google's free Gemini plan ($0 a month with a Google Account) on the US plans page. The course is $49 a month in the US and Canada after a 7-day free trial.
Downsides
It is a general assistant, not an interview tool. You tell it what to ask and what feedback to give.
Google does not describe interview question sets, scores or progress tracking for it.
Google's page notes that "some features require setup or subscription."
Choose the role you are preparing for, then answer interview questions and follow-ups in a roleplay.
Feedback on structure, clarity, conciseness, pacing and filler words.
Price
Starter is $0 with up to 5 roleplays in total and no credit card. Pro is $8 a month billed annually (up to 10 roleplays a week). Advanced is $20 a month billed annually (unlimited).
Downsides
The free plan is 5 sessions in total, not 5 a month.
Yoodli says session data on its Starter and Pro plans may be used to improve the platform.
You can get most of what Warmup gave you with your phone and a free voice assistant. Plan on about 20 minutes.
1
Pick your field and five questions
Write down five questions for the job you want: two about you ("Tell me about yourself," "Why this role?"), two about past experience ("Tell me about a time you..."), and one about the work itself. Warmup mixed general questions with questions for your field, so do the same.
2
Answer out loud, in two minutes or less
Say each answer out loud. Record it on your phone, or use a voice tool that writes out what you said, so you can read it back the way Warmup showed you a transcript.
3
Check it the Warmup way
Look for the three things Warmup showed: the job-related terms you used, the words you repeated most, and the talking points you covered, such as your experience, skills and goals.
4
Answer again
Redo the same question with what you learned. Stop when the answer is clear, specific and under two minutes.
5
Add a score when you are ready
Warmup never graded answers. Once you are comfortable, use a scored mock interview to see which answers still need work.
A prompt for Gemini Live or ChatGPT voice mode
Paste or say this to start. Swap in your job title. It asks for the same insights Warmup showed, without a grade.
Act as an interviewer for a [job title] role. Ask me one question at a time and wait for my full answer. Mix general questions with questions about this job. After each answer, tell me the job-related terms I used, the words I said most often and the talking points I covered. Do not grade me. Then ask if I want to try the same question again.
Want a score instead of doing it by hand?
OphyAI Interview Practice asks role-specific questions, follows up on your answers and gives each answer a percentage score, suggestions and an example of a strong answer. Your first session of up to 15 minutes is free, with no credit card.
That is a different tool. OphyAI Interview Copilot works during live interviews on Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet. It is on Pro ($29 a month, 300 credits), and a session uses 15 credits. If your interview is not here yet, start with practice. How Interview Copilot works.
Google Interview Warmup: questions
Is Google Interview Warmup still available?
No. Google retired Interview Warmup. Its notice said: "We're doing a little spring cleaning and have decided to retire Interview Warmup." On November 8, 2026, the old addresses grow.google/certificates/interview-warmup/ and grow.google/interview-warmup sent us to a general Grow with Google article, "How to prepare for an interview," and the tool's last home, skills.google/interview_warmup, showed "Page not found." We found no other address where it still works.
When did Google Interview Warmup shut down?
Google never published a date. The Internet Archive has the last copy of the working tool on December 15, 2025, and Google's retirement notice online by December 24, 2025. By April 10, 2026, the tool's address redirected to that notice, and from late June 2026 it returned "page not found." Many articles say April 2026, but Google's notice was up months before that.
Why did Google retire Interview Warmup?
Google's only explanation was one line: "We're doing a little spring cleaning and have decided to retire Interview Warmup." We found no other reason from Google. The article the old address now opens suggests Gemini Live for interview practice instead.
What is the best free replacement for Google Interview Warmup?
It depends on what you used it for. For free spoken practice, Gemini Live (Google's own suggestion) and ChatGPT's voice mode both work, with a prompt like the one on this page. For a free app built for mock interviews, Huru says it is free for everyone and scores each answer. For scored practice for your role, OphyAI Interview Practice gives every answer a percentage score, suggestions and an example of a strong answer; the Free plan covers one session of up to 15 minutes with no credit card. For technical rounds, interviewing.io says its AI Interviewer is free for coding and system design.
Can Gemini do the same thing as Interview Warmup?
Partly. Gemini Live is a voice conversation in the Gemini app, and Google's interview tips article says you can use it "to simulate a real-time, conversational interview, providing instant, structured feedback on your responses." It is part of Google's free Gemini plan in the US. Google does not describe ready-made interview question sets or an insights screen for it, so you tell it what to ask and what feedback to give. The prompt on this page asks for the same things Warmup showed: job-related terms, most-used words and talking points.
Did Interview Warmup work for specific Google Career Certificate fields?
Yes. Google built it for Google Career Certificate learners, with a question set for each certificate plus general questions anyone could use, and said "every question has been created by industry experts." Archived category pages include data analytics, advanced data analytics, business intelligence, cybersecurity, IT support, project management and UX design, plus general questions. Google's tips article now suggests practicing for fields like digital marketing or data analytics with Gemini Live. OphyAI Interview Practice asks role-specific questions for the job you choose.
Was Google Interview Warmup free?
Google listed no price or plan for it and said it was "available for everyone to use," and you could answer questions "as many times as you want." It is gone now, so there is nothing to sign up for.
Did Google Interview Warmup save my answers?
Google's page said, "We don't save your audio or the transcripts of your answers," and let you copy an answer or download the full transcript at the end of a session. If privacy matters to you, read the data terms of whatever tool you use next. OphyAI's are at ophyai.com/privacy-policy.
How we checked, and our sources
On November 8, 2026 we loaded the old Interview Warmup addresses ourselves to see where they go, and read each alternative's own website. What Warmup did comes from Google's 2022 launch post, which is still online, and from Internet Archive copies of Google's pages, labelled as archived. We did not use other review sites or blogs for facts. OphyAI makes Interview Practice, so read our entry with that in mind.
Practice out loud or by typing, with a score, suggestions and a strong example answer for every answer. Your first session of up to 15 minutes is free, with no credit card.
