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Thank you! And yeah we've had that request a lot, later this year we'd like to open a candidate-facing platform to hone their skills on Litebulb interviews. Conceptually, getting better at Litebulb interviews should just make you a better dev, not better at interviewing.

Potential feature: get high enough scores on a specific interview, get recommended to companies currently hiring that use this stack and get inserted mid-way through the funnel?

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Yes please! I have never even gotten a shot at interviews like these, its such a black box to me, and I love tests.

I would honestly pay for this without even the hope of a job, just to be able to know where I am at, feel confident if I ever get past the first screen.

Honestly I feel you, I recall interviewing before and the number one thing I kept asking for was feedback, but rarely ever got any. Currently, when a candidate does a Litebulb interview and submits it, we email the same report PDF to the candidate that the employer gets. As in, feedback is built into the flow of the product.

The next step would be to open up that candidate-facing side, and hearing that you'd pay for just that alone is great feedback!

Being able to pass tests in advance which then pre-qualifies you for actual, human interviews for companies who choose that particular challenge (in the future, even if they weren't hiring at the time you took the test) would be a great feature.

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