Save 15+ hours per week
Your engineers stay focused on building. I handle first-round technical vetting.
← Mubarak Muse
Side service
Technical interviews as a service
First-round technical screening for startups and hiring teams — offered individually by me, outside my day-to-day work.
About me
I'm Mubarak. I spent 8+ years as a software engineer at Amazon and Collective Health, then worked as an Interview Engineer at Karat, where I conducted 900+ technical interviews.
What I do
I run 60-minute live technical interviews to filter out unqualified candidates before they reach your team. You interview the ones who pass onsite.
$50 per interview — less than the hourly cost of pulling senior engineers off product work.
Benefits
Higher quality onsite interviews
Human-led screens assess real coding ability—not just resume keywords.
Detailed reports
Hire / No Hire recommendation with written feedback and video recording.
How it works
1. You send candidates
Forward resumes. I handle scheduling and the live assessment.
2. I run a 60-minute technical interview
Live coding focused on data structures, algorithms, and practical problem solving.
3. You interview qualified candidates
You receive a Hire / No Hire report, feedback, and a recording.
Testimonials
“Thank you for the engaging interview... I truly enjoyed answering your insightful questions and working through both the DSA and the Pandas questions.”
— Samarth, candidate
“Thank you Mubarak for the interview, I really appreciate it. I enjoyed the session and had a good time.”
— Dedan I., candidate
Case study
I helped Piedmont Global build out their software team — 38 candidates across 4 roles, saving their engineers hours of first-round screens.
Interested in first-round technical screening?
Book a 15-min intro call →