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Forget the role for a second. If this doesn't work out in eighteen months, what will have gone wrong?
Tom Berger
Behavioral round
Tom Berger
Founder and CEO, seed-stage startup
Runs rooms pitched at confident fluency and advanced fluency
Either way. You pick before you start, from Brooklyn, NY
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A session of any length
First five minutes free
Ways in to Tom Berger
Try it free
5 minutes, no card, and the full write-up at the end. 16 of the catalogue are open on it.
Free · 5 min
Sprint
150 minutes to use in thirty days, which is about 12 conversations. For a date already in your calendar.
$66 · 150 min
Monthly
300 minutes a month, renewing. For a job search, a move, or a language you are keeping up.
$105 · 300 min / mo
For a team
One invoice for everybody, and nobody sees anybody else's conversations. For a company putting a team through the same interviews.
$25 · per seat
In Tom’s words
Tom is hiring his ninth employee and interviewing between two investor calls.
He talks fast, thinks faster, and asks 'why' three times in a row because the third answer is the real one. He has no interest in your job titles. He wants to know what you would do on Monday if nobody told you anything. He will ask what is wrong with his product and he will know if you are being polite. Flattery costs you the job. So does a long answer to a short question. He is not rude; he is out of time, and he is deciding whether you are the kind of person who makes that better or worse.
1min
They speak first, about a second after you press start. There is no press-to-talk and no waiting for your turn.
4min
Four minutes of the real thing, at the real pace, with the interruptions where a real one would put them.
1min
Your pace, your pauses and your filler words are counted within a second, and the score follows. Nobody asks for a card to hear it.
What a score from Tom is worth
How the score is worked out here
Three things, and you can read what each one actually means. None of them turn this into an exam: talk to this person as often as you like, and the score is there only if you want it.
Run on Tom
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Published criteria
The criteria and their weights are visible before you speak.
- Here
- Under ten people, no HR, the founder decides in twelve minutes and is usually right about speed.
- Held by
- Published in advance; changes go through review
- Method
- Before you speak you can see what is being measured and how much each thing is worth, as percentages that add up to a hundred. That is checked automatically: a set whose percentages do not add up never reaches the site.
Nothing Tom is scored on has been checked against human examiners yet, so this profile carries no calibrated mark. We do not skip that check: until it is passed, the scoring does not switch on, and the mark appears the day it does.
Situations and levels
What Tom runs, and what a fortnight of it costs
A minute costs the same whoever you talk to: the expensive part is the model, not the person. Move the sliders to match the two weeks you actually have.
Situations
Difficulty
What it costs to rehearse this properly
Three runs across a week is what changes an answer. Move the sliders to your own plan. Nothing renews, and nothing is charged until you buy minutes.
- Minutes of talking in total
- 72
- What that costs here
- $32
- The same minutes with a tutor
- $300
- You do not spend
- −$268
At $50 an hour, rounded up to the 60-minute booking nobody will sell you less than.
What Tom says
The lines you will actually have to answer
Word for word, from Tom's own opening and follow-up questions, in the language they speak. Read them and ask yourself whether you could answer the second one. That is the whole decision this page is asking for.
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What Tom is like, across 1 scenario
Ratings
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- One conversation, one rating
- A rating is tied to one conversation, and a conversation can only be used once. It cannot be attached to a conversation that never happened.
- Written by the person who spoke
- Not by somebody who bought a package. The stronger claim, and the only one this product is in a position to make.
- Read before it is published
- The same rule everything else a visitor reads goes through. Nothing appears here automatically.
Compared with an hour of a tutor
9 rehearsals with Tom for the price of one lesson
A human tutor is worth $50 an hour. What they cannot do is sell you 12 minutes, be free the morning of the interview, or cut you off mid-sentence because that is what the room will do.
One lesson, 60 min
$50
One rehearsal, 12 min
$5.28
89% less, and you can do it 9 times before the hour is paid for.
| A human tutor | Reallang | |
|---|---|---|
| Shortest thing you can buy | 60 minutes | 12 minutes, or five |
| What that costs | $50 | $5.28 |
| When you can have it | When they are free | Now, or at 6am on the day |
| Feedback in writing | About 24 hours later | 60 seconds later |
| Will they interrupt you | No. They are being kind | Yes, on purpose, at ninety seconds |
| Evidence under the feedback | What they remember | Your own sentence, checked |
| Can they hear what you meant | Yes, and that is the point of them | No. It is a rehearsal, not a teacher |
The last row is not a concession, it is the division of labour. A tutor teaches you the language. This rehearses the minutes where you have to use it, and there is no reason to buy an hour of a person’s time to do that.
Start a session
Pick the meeting, and Tom starts talking
There is no calendar, because there is nothing to wait for. Choose which conversation it is, allow the microphone, and a second later you are talking.
Which conversation are you having?
Tom Berger runs one meeting. They are different conversations, not easy and hard versions of one, and each has its own criteria.
What counts as going well
Keep up. Answer in the first sentence. Have an opinion about his product.
Tom Berger
American English · cold
- Waiting
- 0.8 seconds
- The score
- 60 seconds after
- This session
- $5.28
- After that
- $5.28
- The first 5 minutes cost nothing and no card is asked for.
- We ask for your microphone before the conversation starts, never after.
- Audio is not stored. The written record of the conversation is, because the score quotes from it.
Also free the first time
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