The LastRound AI Blog
Interview prep, tech careers, and AI tools — from the team building the AI interview copilot.
Career Advice
How Long Do Job Postings Stay Up? We Checked 67,435 of Them
One job posting in our data went live on 16 March 2015. Its title is “Name Your Job.” On 9 October 2026, when we…
Career Advice
Why a Good Resume Still Scores Badly Against a Job Description
On 6 September 2026 I ran a real data engineer’s resume against a matching job description through LastRound AI’s resume checker to see how…
Career Advice
What a Job Posting Is Actually Trying to Tell You
Knowing how to read a job description properly saves you the hour you’d otherwise spend tailoring a resume for a role that was never…
Career Advice
The Math Behind the Date on Your Relieving Letter
Type a resignation date into LastRound AI’s notice period calculator and set the notice to 30 days, and on 6 September 2026 it returned…
Salary & Compensation
The Fine Print That Turns a Signing Bonus Into a Loan
A joining bonus clawback clause is the two or three sentences near the bottom of the offer letter that turn a signing bonus into…
Career Advice
The Document That Actually Governs Your Job, and When It Kicks In
An offer letter and an appointment letter get treated as the same piece of paper in most hallway conversations about a new job, and…
Career Advice
The Fine Print That Costs More Than a Bad Salary Number
Say a candidate gets a written offer on a Tuesday and signs it that same afternoon, before reading past the CTC number printed in…
Salary & Compensation
The Least-of-Three Rule Behind Every House Rent Allowance Claim
Rules verified against the Income Tax Department’s own new-vs-old-regime FAQ page on 7 September 2026, which states, in close to these exact words, that…
Salary & Compensation
Reading an Indian Payslip Without Guessing What Each Line Does
An Indian offer letter usually lists ten or so line items under CTC. The payslip that shows up in your inbox every month lists…
Salary & Compensation
What 10 LPA, 15 LPA and 20 LPA Actually Pay You Each Month
On 6 September 2026 I ran LastRound AI’s CTC to in hand salary calculator with an 18,00,000 rupee CTC, a Karnataka posting, and 2,00,000…