The LastRound AI Blog
Interview prep, tech careers, and AI tools — from the team building the AI interview copilot.
Company Guides
Zoho hires nothing like the rest of Indian tech
On 6 September 2026 I opened Zoho Schools of Learning’s official page and found this line: applicants must be 17 to 20 years old,…
Company Guides
What Flipkart actually tests, round by round
I opened Flipkart’s official How We Hire page on 6 September 2026 and counted the stages it lists for the Flipkart interview process: application,…
Career Advice
Is an MBA worth it if you’re already a software engineer? A real cost breakdown
On 6 September 2026 I pulled ISB’s own fees and scholarships page for the flagship PGP, the one-year full-time MBA at its Hyderabad and…
Career Advice
Getting your notice period down from 90 days
Our Search Console numbers, pulled 6 September 2026 across a 45-day window, show “1 month notice period calculator” pulling 158 impressions at an average…
Career Advice
Three job titles, three different jobs: sorting out PM, PjM and PgM
On 6 September 2026 I opened the BLS occupational page for project management specialists and it defines the job in one sentence: “Project management…
Career Advice
Tech layoffs in 2026, and the first 30 days after one
Tech layoffs 2026 already read worse than 2025 by any tracker’s count, and our own Search Console data, pulled on 6 September 2026, shows…
Certifications
Google Cloud certification: a straight answer for 2026
On 6 September 2026 I opened three pages on cloud.google.com to check current prices, because every price I found in older blog posts about…
Company Guides
The gap between Amazon’s engineering levels isn’t years, it’s blast radius
Search Console shows people typing “amazon sde 2 interview experience” and “amazon interview questions sde2” into Google and mostly not clicking anything. Across a…
Technical Prep
None of these three will tell you the price until you talk to someone
On 6 September 2026 I opened the public pages for Scaler, Coding Ninjas, and Interview Kickstart looking for one thing: a number. A monthly…
Technical Prep
Three DSA platforms, three different jobs to do
On 6 September 2026 I tried to open LeetCode’s own subscribe page to check its Premium price and got a flat 403. GeeksforGeeks let…