How it works

From first question
to offer letter.

Eight steps. Real questions. AI scoring. Flashcards from your gaps. A full mock interview. This is the preparation infrastructure that used to only exist if you knew the right people.

1

Build your profile

2 minutes to set up

Set your job role, target level (Foundations to L7), interview stage, and target company. Every question, model answer, and scoring threshold is then calibrated to where you are and where you are going. IC4 at Cloudflare and NDE II at Amazon are different bars — you are scored against the right one from day one.

2

Pick a drill mode

8 modes

Eight specialist modes built around real interview formats. Start with Free Drill to warm up, run Mock Interview Studio for a full structured simulation, or use Routing Lab for topology-heavy problems.

3

Answer with voice or text

Voice + text

Questions come with topology diagrams, scenario context, and the exact framing a live panel would use. Speak your answer — your transcript is captured — or type it out. Both modes score identically.

4

Get AI-scored in seconds

7-dimension scorecard

Claude evaluates your answer across 7 dimensions: Technical Accuracy, Depth, Structure, Clarity, Conciseness, Completeness, and Relevance. You get a score, your gaps named precisely, and a model answer to compare against.

5

Flashcards built from your gaps

Auto-generated · not generic

Instead of reviewing generic flashcards, you get cards generated specifically from what your answer missed. If you skipped ORIGINATOR_ID, that is what the card covers — not the entire BGP RFC.

6

Track mastery per topic

65 topics

Your scores roll up into a mastery map across 65 topics. See exactly where you are strong, where you are patchy, and which topics still have open questions in the bank. Every session sharpens the map — the longer you practise, the more precisely your next drill targets what you actually need.

7

Run a full mock interview

Mock Interview Studio

Betty, our AI interviewer, runs a structured multi-phase session matched to your target role and company. She probes your answers, follows up on gaps, and evaluates the whole session — not just one response.

8

Walk into the real interview ready

The outcome

By the time you sit in front of a live panel, you have put in the reps. You have heard the hard follow-up questions before. You know where your gaps were and you have closed them. That is what lands the offer.

The eight modes

Built for every stage of interview prep.

Free Drill

Free Drill

Unrestricted question practice across any topic or role.

Mock Interview Studio

Mock Interview Studio

Full multi-phase session with Betty, our AI interviewer.

Routing Lab

Routing Lab

Topology diagrams — BGP, OSPF, MPLS, and network design problems.

Troubleshoot Sim

Troubleshoot Sim

Live network fault scenarios. Diagnose and recover step by step.

Behavioral Prep

Behavioral Prep

STAR-structured questions scored on both delivery and technical content.

Incident Call Sim

Incident Call Sim

Real-time incident bridge simulation with escalation pressure.

Design Bank

Design Bank

Architecture and system design questions for senior and staff roles.

JD Planner

JD Planner

Paste a job description, get a tailored question set for that exact role.

The scorecard

Seven dimensions. Not just a number.

Most interview prep tools tell you whether your answer was right or wrong. My Next Hop tells you how it fell short and exactly what to fix. Claude grades every submission across seven independent dimensions — each with its own score, gap statement, and highest-leverage fix.

Technical AccuracyDepthStructureClarityConcisenessCompletenessRelevance

Every session also generates a model answer for comparison, a highest-leverage fix (the single change that would move your score most), and flashcards built from what you missed.

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Voice answers are treated equally

Speaking your answer is not a shortcut — it is the harder mode. Your transcript goes through the same 7-dimension scoring pipeline as typed answers. Nine speech metrics — filler words per minute, pace, stutter count, hedging language, trailing endings, uncertainty phrases, repetitions, and a confidence signal score — are captured and surfaced separately, which is useful if you are working toward phone or video screens.

Betty, My Next Hop AI Interviewer

Betty is not a chatbot

Betty is the Mock Interview Studio interviewer. She runs a structured, multi-phase session — technical rounds, follow-up probing, and a close — matched to your target company and role level. She scores the full session, not individual answers, and generates a debrief that reads like real interviewer notes. The goal is that your first experience being probed in that way is not in the actual interview.

What we cover

The protocols that show up most in interviews.

Questions across 65 topics — network engineering, cloud networking, optical transport, AI infrastructure, network security, and behavioral — generated fresh each session and calibrated to your level and target company. Practise the same material from different angles until the explanation is automatic.

BGP path selectionBGP policy and communitiesBGP Route ReflectorsOSPF area typesOSPF adjacency troubleshootingTCP/IP internalsDNS and DNSSECTLS and certificate chainsLoad balancingLinux networkingNetwork automation with PythonAWS VPC routingAWS Transit GatewayAWS Direct ConnectAWS Route 53AWS ELBSecurity groups vs NACLsVXLAN and EVPNMPLS label switchingSD-WANBFD fast failoverECMPSTP and RSTPIPv6 migrationNetwork automationTroubleshooting methodologyTopology diagram questionsSystem design for network engineersAI cluster networkingRDMA and RoCEGPU interconnectsML pipeline infrastructureDWDM link engineeringCoherent optics & modulationOTN / G.709 hierarchyROADM architecturesEDFA & Raman amplificationOSNR & optical performance monitoringFiber types & propagationSubmarine cable systemsGMPLS & optical control planeOTDR troubleshootingZero trust & SASEBGP hijacking & RPKIDDoS defense at scaleEdge-device exploitationPost-quantum cryptographyCloud & container security

Start today

The reps do not build themselves.

Create an account. Pick your level. Answer one question. That is how it starts.