Interview Kickstart
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$10.5M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$10M
Venture round · Feb 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
14
+4 posted in 30 days
The money's age
Long since its last round
31 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
21/100
hiring for its size, a new city
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Feb 26, 2024
Raised a round Venture round $10M · TechCrunch
Mar 31, 2019
Raised a round Venture round $522k · SEC Form D
2014
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.91%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
5
best: 3 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Feb 2024 | $10M | — | TechCrunch |
| Venture round | Mar 2019 | $522k | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Interview Kickstart LLC | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Soham MehtaExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Ryan VallesExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
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How Interview Kickstart hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Median time to fill
27 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Interview Kickstart scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 5 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 27 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
News
Interview Kickstart Launches Frontend Engineering Interview Prep Course for 2026 - Targeting High-Demand UI and System Design Roles
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Interview Kickstart Launches Data Engineering Interview Prep Program to Help Engineers Prepare for FAANG and Top Tech Company Interviews
SANTA CLARA, CA, March 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Interview Kickstart, a leading platform for technical interview preparation and advanced upskilling for technology professionals, has announced the launch of itsData Engineering Interview Prep program, a
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Interview Kickstart's Backend Engineering Interview Prep Course Aligns with Big Tech's Massive AI Infrastructure and Agentic AI Push
SANTA CLARA, CA, Feb. 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SANTA CLARA, CA - February 11, 2026 - - Interview Kickstart has announced the launch of a new Backend Engineering Interview Prep Course, designed for software engineers preparing for backend-focused roles
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2026 Update: Applied Agentic AI for Software Engineers Program by Interview Kickstart for FAANG Jobs and Big Tech Interviews
SANTA CLARA, CA, Feb. 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Interview Kickstart has announced the launch of its Applied Agentic AI for Software Engineers program, designed for experienced software engineers preparing for technical interviews that now increasingly
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New Full Stack Developer Interview Course - Interview Kickstart Program With Mock Interviews Helps Software Engineers Nail Top FAANG Jobs
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Full Stack Developer Interview Prep Course With Agentic AI - Interview Kickstart's AI Accelerated Program 2026 Update For US Tech Jobs
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Engineers Upskill With Interview Kickstart
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Interview Kickstart over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
65
Postings analysed
17
Stack modernity
90/100AI adopter
Languages
Python35%
JavaScript35%
SQL12%
TypeScript12%
Frameworks & libraries
Django29%
LangChain24%
LangGraph24%
Next.js24%
Databases
Pinecone12%
Weaviate12%
MySQL6%
Cloud & platforms
OpenAI18%
AWS12%
Anthropic12%
Azure12%
AI & ML
LLM24%
Gemini12%
Claude6%
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Full Interview Kickstart tech stack
65 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
People
Soham Mehta
Executive Officer
Ryan Valles
Executive Officer
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
81/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
14
4 opened / 5 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
27 days
faster than 45% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
33% ▲
Solutions
17% ▲
Customer Success
11% ▼
AI/ML
6% ▲
QA
6% ▼
HR
6% ▼
Actively hiring for Solutions (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Tool Use to stack
Oct 2026
Added Reranking to stack
Oct 2026
Added RAG to stack
Oct 2026
Added LLM Guardrails to stack
Oct 2026
Added LLM Evaluation to stack
Oct 2026
Added LlamaIndex to stack
Oct 2026
Added Hybrid Search to stack
Oct 2026
Added Function Calling to stack
Oct 2026
Added Embeddings to stack
Oct 2026
Added AutoGen to stack
Oct 2026
Added Terraform to stack
Oct 2026
Added SOC 2 to stack
Oct 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
4
Hiring now
1
Countries
2
Busiest office
Bengaluru
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Palo Alto
United States
HQ
Bengaluru
India
1 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Solutions
Wilmington
United States
Regional office
Contact us
Santa Clara
United States
Regional office
4701 Patrick Henry Dr Bldg 25, Santa Clara, CA 95054, United States
4701 Patrick Henry Dr Bldg 25, Santa Clara, CA 95054, United States
Jobs
≈ $17k – $38k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • India
Python
JavaScript
Django
AI/ML
Machine Learning
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
Terraform
CloudFormation
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
IAM
Cybersecurity
SOC 2
GDPR
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≈ $14k – $36k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 1+ year exp • Bengaluru
Dropbox
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≈ $8.5k – $23k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • India
Python
FastAPI
Django
Django REST Framework
Databases
Weaviate
Pinecone
AI/ML
LangGraph
LangChain
Prompt Engineering
AI Agents
Gemini
LLM
OpenAI
Anthropic
Semantic Search
Edge AI
Machine Learning
Apply
≈ $20k – $47k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • India
Weaviate
Pinecone
AI/ML
LangGraph
LangChain
Fine-tuning
Prompt Engineering
AI Agents
Gemini
LLM
OpenAI
Anthropic
Semantic Search
Edge AI
Machine Learning
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Apply
≈ $9k – $22k per year (Estimated) • Remote (India) • Full-Time • 1+ year exp
Python
JavaScript
Django
Django REST Framework
Databases
MySQL
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
JQuery
DevOps
Git
GitHub
GitLab
Apply
Remote (India) • Internship
Python
JavaScript
SQL
Django
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
JQuery
DevOps
Git
Apply
≈ $8.5k – $23k per year (Estimated) • Remote (India) • Full-Time • 3+ years exp
Python
JavaScript
Django
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
CI/CD
Self-Healing
Management
Dropbox
QA
Playwright
Apply