How many days before an interview should I start preparing?

Two is enough for most roles if the hours go in the right order. Starting three weeks out mostly produces reading you will not remember on the day, and starting the same morning means skipping the items that depend on someone else replying, which is where your specific questions come from.

Is my checklist progress saved if I close the tab?

Yes. Ticks are stored in this browser on the device you are using, so you can start on Friday night and finish on Sunday morning. Private browsing, clearing site data, or opening the tool on your phone will each show a fresh, unticked list.

What should I ask when they say do you have any questions?

Four is a sensible number, and at least one should be about how the team works day to day rather than about the product. Prepare the first ninety days question precisely, because the answer tells you whether the role is defined or is still being invented around whoever accepts it.

Should I discuss salary in the first round?

In Indian hiring the recruiter usually raises it before the panel does, so have your annual CTC and your expected range ready — say ₹18 to ₹22 lakh fixed — along with the split between fixed and variable. Volunteering it unprompted in a technical round is early.

Does this generate interview questions or answers for me?

No. There is no model behind it; it is a fixed checklist with your ticks saved locally. For rehearsing the questions themselves, the interview question generator and the mock interview timer are separate tools, and both also run entirely on your device.

Interview Preparation Checklist

A checklist for the 48 hours before an interview — research, rehearsal, the desk and the debrief afterwards — ordered by when each task stops being possible rather than by how important it sounds.

Runs in your browser — nothing is uploaded

Preparation

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Saved on this device — come back to it

Built around the 48 hours that matter

Generic advice tells you to research the company. This is the sequence that actually fits into the two days before an interview, in the order the tasks depend on each other — and it includes the part almost everyone skips, which is writing down the questions afterwards.

Your file never leaves this device. The whole operation runs in your browser — nothing is uploaded, queued on a server, or deleted later, because nothing was ever sent.

Two days before

The day before

On the day

Afterwards

Why use it

Built to be genuinely useful

Ordered by the clock

Every item sits in the two days before the interview, sequenced by what becomes impossible first.

Covers the part after

The last group is the debrief almost nobody does, which is what carries you into the next round.

Nothing is uploaded

Everything runs in your browser, so your progress never reaches a server.

Free, no sign-up

No account, no usage cap, and no part of the list held back behind a paywall.

How it works

Three steps

1
Start with “Two days before” — those items depend on other people replying, so they need the lead time.
2
Tick items as you finish them; the count at the top is saved on this device, so you can leave and come back.
3
Open “Afterwards” the same evening and finish it while you still remember what you were asked.

Why the last 48 hours decide it

Most interview advice carries no clock. Research the company, know your strengths, practise your answers — all true a month out, and all useless at ten at night with the call at half past nine the next morning. The two days before hold maybe four usable hours, and the order you spend them in decides how much survives into the room.

So this list is sequenced by dependency rather than importance. Finding out who is on the panel and what they work on takes a day, because it usually means messaging someone who has to reply. Rehearsing to a clock takes an evening. Testing the video link takes ten minutes and cannot honestly be done any earlier than the morning itself.

The list is fixed and identical for everyone. Nothing is generated and nothing is tailored to a job description; the ticks live in this browser's local storage, which is why the count follows you back on the same device and starts empty on another one.

Research that survives the room

The common failure is not too little research but the wrong kind. Twenty tabs of press coverage you cannot recall under pressure are worth less than four facts you can use in a sentence. A workable floor: how the company makes money, who the customer is, what changed in the last six months, and what the panel actually builds.

Reading the last two announcements is on the list for one reason — it produces the question nobody else in the queue will ask. For an Indian startup, the funding round and the LinkedIn headcount trend say more than the About page. A Series B closed two years ago with hiring flat since is a very different conversation from one closed last quarter.

Re-reading your own resume matters as much. Interviewers reach for the oldest and vaguest line on the page, and candidates who have not opened their own document in eight months stall on a project they left in 2021. If it is written there, you are answerable for it, including the numbers.

The half hour after is worth an hour before

Almost nobody completes the last group, and it has the highest return of anything on the page. Within about thirty minutes of walking out you can still reconstruct nearly every question you were asked. By the next morning you will have half, and the answers you fumbled — precisely the ones worth fixing — are the first to go.

That record compounds because Indian hiring processes routinely run three or four rounds across several weeks, and the technical screen and the manager round pull from the same short list of concerns. A candidate who wrote down the second round walks into the third already knowing which answer needs rebuilding rather than guessing at it.

The thank-you note has a narrower purpose than people assume. It will not win an offer, but it gives you a legitimate reason to correct one thing: a single clear sentence carrying the figure or the example you could not summon on the call, sent inside a day while the panel is still comparing candidates.

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