SwissJobs.app or Pramp and Exponent?

Feature comparison

Pramp and Aced (formerly Exponent) details read from pramp.com and tryexponent.com on 16 September 2026, prices from the rendered plan page; ours from the code and the no-account flow. "Not stated" means not readable on the vendor’s site, not "does not exist".

Prices side by side

Aced bills in US dollars. Converted at the 16 September 2026 rate (1 USD = 0.819 CHF), rounded.

What happened to Pramp

Search for Pramp and you reach a page that says "As of July 2024, all new Pramp sessions are hosted on Exponent Practice". The idea survived the move. You say when and what you want to practise, and you are paired with someone preparing for similar interviews. You interview each other for 30 to 45 minutes and swap feedback afterwards, with questions and model answers supplied by the platform.

Exponent has since renamed itself Aced, "formerly Exponent". Peer sessions start every two hours between 8 am and midnight local time, and to join at short notice you come back to the page ten minutes before. Around that sit courses in product management, software engineering, system design, data science, machine learning and, newly, investment banking, plus a question database, referrals into tech companies and paid coaching from more than a hundred coaches.

What Aced costs on 16 September 2026

The pricing page loads its figures in the browser and opens on the yearly toggle. Basic is free, with five peer mocks a month, sample lessons and sample questions, no card needed. Pro is USD 79 a month, or USD 12 a month billed yearly, which is USD 144 up front, and brings every course, unlimited peer mocks and the full question database.

The AI sits in the third plan. Expert is USD 99 a month, or USD 20 a month billed yearly, USD 240 up front, and adds AI mock interviews, AI feedback and a chat coach. The practice page says rubric grading is "only available for Aced members". There is no free trial; instead there is a full refund within five days of purchase, and the membership renews automatically. Coaching is sold on top, priced per coach, and no figure is shown until you choose one.

Where Pramp and Aced are the better choice

When a human opposite you matters more than a score. A peer session feels closer to a real interview than any AI voice: the other person interrupts, digs into a weak point, goes quiet at the wrong moment. And because you then take the interviewer's chair yourself, you learn how an answer sounds from the other side of the table. We cannot offer that, and five such sessions a month for free is a fair deal.

If you are preparing for a software engineer, product manager or data scientist role at a large tech company, including the offices in Zurich, Aced has courses, a coding environment and company-specific guides that we do not. English is the working language of those interviews anyway.

Where we fit an application in Switzerland

Most Swiss interviews are not coding rounds. They turn on the Arbeitszeugnis (the Swiss employer reference), the workload percentage you want, your permit, whether your French is really B2 on the CEFR scale, and why this company in this canton. Aced mentions none of these conventions, and its questions come from a database sorted by role and company rather than from your advert.

With us you start from a job in our own index or paste in your own advert, pick the company size and up to five people on the panel, and an AI voice asks eight questions in the language of the interview: German, French, Italian or English. Each answer comes back with a percentage and the reasoning, with no booking and no waiting for a partner. For anyone relocating, one thing worth knowing is that many Swiss interviewers value understatement over self-promotion, which a US-trained answer often overdoes.

An interview in ten days: what each option costs

Take a concrete case: an interview at an insurer in Bern in ten days, and three practice rounds. On Aced's free plan that is three of your five peer sessions, provided someone suitable is available at your times, and none of them comes with AI grading. If you want that, you pay USD 99 for a month of Expert, about CHF 81, or USD 240 for a year.

With us the free account does not cover a full round: five scored answers on sign-up day, then five a month. For three rounds of eight questions you take one month at CHF 15, which covers up to 40 scored answers, and cancel. In the same month you can write the CV and motivation letter for your next application at no extra cost.

Using both

The two do not exclude each other. A sensible order is to practise alone with our AI voice until your answers match the requirements in the advert, then book a free Aced session with a person to see whether they hold up under follow-up questions. For an interview in German or French, though, a peer session is only as good as the partner you are matched with, since the platform is built around English and tech roles.

Who should pick which

Use the free ChatGPT voice mode if you just want to speak out loud once. Use Aced, formerly Exponent and Pramp, if you are preparing for coding, system design or product management rounds at tech companies, or want to practise with real people. Use SwissJobs.app if you are preparing for a specific advert in Switzerland, in one of its languages, and want CV, letter and interview practice from one subscription in francs. And if what holds you back is nerves in front of people rather than the content of your answers, a coach will help more than any tool.