Use case · Job interviews
How it works for job interviews
Distill makes you say the answer out loud, scores how it landed, and asks the inevitable follow-up. Behavioral answers are graded on STAR structure and hedge words. Technical answers are graded against your source material.
Take 4 of 6
Senior PM @ Stripe
Overall score
Stats
Coverage
96%
Clarity
91%
Pacing
138 wpm
Fillers
2
By format
The shape of your prep changes by round. Distill scopes the rehearsal and the follow-ups to whichever flavour you are walking into next.
Tell-me-about-a-time stories scored on STAR structure, hedge words, and the impact number you almost forgot.
Talk through your solution out loud the way you have to in the room. Distill catches when you hand-wave a step.
Practice articulating tradeoffs, drawing the architecture verbally, and answering the inevitable scale follow-ups.
MECE, hypothesis-led, market sizing. Scored on framework structure and whether your math actually closes.
Drill the same answer for three different audiences (eng lead, hiring manager, skip-level) and feel the contrast.
Rehearse the 30-second pitch and the why-this-company answer until they land in your sleep.
By industry
Different rooms, same loop. Upload the job spec or the residency brief or the consulting prep deck. Distill grades you against the room you are actually walking into.
Engineering, PM, design, data. Behavioral plus the discipline-specific deep dive.
MBB, tier 2, boutique. Case method drilling, frameworks under time pressure.
IB, PE, hedge funds, quant. Technicals, fit, and the dreaded brain teasers.
Residency match, fellowship, attending. MMI stations and patient-scenario walkthroughs.
Discovery role plays, demo flow, objection handling. Drill the close until it sounds like you.
Faculty searches, postdoc interviews, thesis defenses. Research talks scored on clarity and time.
Real outcomes
Distill is for candidates who'd rather rehearse the hard moment ten times in private than wing it once and hope.
Priya Shankar
Senior PM @ Stripe
I'd bombed two final rounds before this. Distill caught my STAR structure problem on take one — I was burying the impact. Five behavioral drills later I had a clean version of every story. Walked in calm.
Marcus Liu
Staff engineer
Reading system design playbooks didn't help me. Saying it out loud and getting a structured tradeoff score did. The phase breakdown forced me through scoping, capacity, then bottlenecks every time.
Lena Park
ML engineer
I had a paid mock interview booked. Did three Distill drills the weekend before and cancelled the coach. The feedback was actually more specific than the human one I'd had a month earlier.
Jordan Reyes
Product manager
Watching the count tick up in real time was the only thing that ever made me actually fix it. After a week the 'um' and 'like' were just gone.
Maya Okafor
Sr PM @ Anthropic
Reading the rubric while answering felt like cheating at first. Then doing it blind a few times after, the criteria were already in my head. That's the loop.
Devon Carter
Software engineer
The hiring manager told me afterward my answers were 'unusually structured.' That was nine takes per question across four days. Worth it.
Sasha Iyer
Data scientist
Used it for the second half of my Meta loop. Score went from 38 on a behavioral take to 71 by the third try. Got the offer.
Aaron Brooks
Eng manager
I had no idea I said 'basically' that much. Seeing it underlined in yellow on the transcript was the kind of feedback I needed years ago.
Nia Whitfield
Product designer
Three behavioral. One product sense. One system design. I just rotated through them every morning the week before. Walked in feeling like I'd already done the interview.
Candidates who used Distill landed at
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Upload your deck, the job description, your one-pager, or the paper you're explaining. Distill learns the material so it can grade you against the real thing.
Paste the questions you want to drill or the concepts you need to explain. Distill runs you through each one and scores your answers.
After your rehearsal, Distill asks the follow-ups your real audience will ask, generated from your own material. Pick friendly, skeptical, or hostile mode.
Every take is scored on coverage, clarity, pacing, fillers, and confidence. Each metric links back to the moment in your transcript.
Export your scorecard and recording to send to a coach, friend, or hiring buddy when you want a human eye on it.
Score history per project, weakness heatmap across attempts, calendar nudges before the real event. Watch yourself get better, not just busier.
Sixty seconds. Real scorecard. No signup.