Terminology carries zero weightPractise the interview.
Practise the interview.
Find out what you actually missed.
You are scored on understanding, not vocabulary. Explain the right mechanism in plain words and you get full credit — even with no technical terminology at all. Use the correct term with the wrong mental model and you don't.
What that means in practice
For a question about why deep pagination gets slow, all of these earn full credit for the core idea:
Nobody ever has to say the word “keyset”.
- “it has to walk past all those rows first”
- “it counts through everything it’s skipping”
- “like a bookmark instead of counting pages”
How a session works
Four steps, and you can read every one of them before you commit to anything.
Step 1
Paste a job description, or upload a resume
It is used to choose which topics you are asked about — and nothing else. It never reaches the thing that scores you.
Step 2
Read the plan before you start
Which competencies, at which level, and how many questions. No surprises, and nothing inferred from your documents that you cannot see.
Step 3
Answer in your own words
Speak it or type it — scored identically. Stuck? Three graduated hints point at the concept, never the term.
Step 4
See exactly what you missed
What you covered, what you missed, and one sentence per gap explaining the idea you didn’t reach.
What is never scored: accent, fluency, grammar, speaking speed, confidence, or anything inferred from your face or voice. Your resume decides what you are asked; only your answers decide your rating.