Yes. The free tier is permanent: 7 questions per day in GOBLINMODE plus full access to GOBLIN100, articles, guides, and the Excel shortcut trainer. Accelerated is $40 per month for 80 questions per day with Bank & Round and Topics modes unlocked.

How OFFERGOBLIN Works: The Card Engine, Practice Modes, and Daily Loop

Q: How does the OFFERGOBLIN practice loop work?

Open the app, read the question, answer it out loud, reveal the structured answer, mark Know or Don't Know, advance to the next card. The platform is built around retrieval practice, not recognition — every action moves the candidate toward producing answers cleanly under interview pressure.

Q: How many practice modes are there?

Four. GOBLINMODE is the adaptive default. GOBLIN100 is a fixed 100-question beginner ramp. Bank & Round filters by firm and interview round (Accelerated only). Topics filters by curriculum tag (Accelerated only).

Q: How are answers structured on OFFERGOBLIN?

Every answer is rendered in six sections: Direct Response, Intuition, Watch, Objective, Mechanics, and Script. The format teaches candidates how to communicate like a banker, not just what the answer is.

OFFERGOBLIN is a cards-based investment banking interview prep platform. The product loop, the four practice modes, and how candidates actually use it to land offers.

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Direct answer

OFFERGOBLIN is a cards-based investment banking interview prep platform with over 3,500 verified Wall Street interview questions across 39 banks. Candidates practice through four modes — GOBLINMODE, GOBLIN100, Bank & Round, and Topics — with answers rendered in a six-section structured format. The free tier gives 7 questions a day; Accelerated is $40 a month for 80 questions a day with bank and round filters and topic filters unlocked.

The product loop

Open the app. Read the question. Answer it out loud. Reveal the structured answer. Mark Know, Don't Know, or Skip. Move to the next card.

That is the loop. The platform is built around it. Everything else — the article library, the Excel shortcut trainer, the recruiting guides — exists to support that core practice cycle.

The loop is built around retrieval, not recognition. Reading a textbook teaches a candidate to recognize a DCF when they see one. The OFFERGOBLIN loop teaches a candidate to produce the DCF answer cleanly when an interviewer asks for it.

What is in the question bank

Over 3,500 verified Wall Street interview questions. 39 banks tagged. 67 topic tags. 7,400 question-tag links. Each question carries metadata: the bank it was sourced from, the round (first round, super day), the domain (Behavioral, Technical), the coverage group (TMT, Healthcare, FIG, M&A, Restructuring), the year asked, and difficulty.

Questions span undergraduate-difficulty fundamentals through advanced lateral and buyside content. A non-target sophomore practicing the basics and a working analyst prepping for PE on-cycle pull from the same archive — the engine just hands them different cards.

The four practice modes

GOBLINMODE

The adaptive default. The engine chooses the next card based on the candidate's current curriculum phase and self-grades. New questions, weak questions, skipped questions, and mastered questions do not all receive the same priority. The cards a candidate needs most keep coming back. Available on both Free and Accelerated tiers.

Learn more in the dedicated GOBLINMODE explainer.

GOBLIN100

A fixed 100-question beginner ramp for candidates who do not yet know what to study first. An ordered path through baseline material before the candidate moves into broader daily reps. Useful for non-finance backgrounds, sophomores starting from scratch, or rusty candidates returning to prep. Available on Free and Accelerated.

Full walkthrough on GOBLIN100.

Bank & Round

Filter the card pool by firm and interview round. If a Goldman first round, an Evercore Superday, or a Centerview final is on the calendar, this mode narrows the reps to that specific format. Accelerated tier only.

Details on Bank & Round mode.

Topics

Filter by curriculum tag. If working capital keeps breaking the candidate, drill working capital. If LBO returns are loose, drill LBOs. Accelerated tier only.

The six-section answer format

Every answer in OFFERGOBLIN is rendered with six explicit sections:

Direct Response — the concise answer the interviewer wants to hear.
Intuition — why the answer makes sense, conceptually.
Watch — common mistakes and traps to avoid.
Objective — what the interviewer is actually testing for.
Mechanics — step-by-step reasoning and math.
Script — how to articulate this verbally in an interview.

This format is deliberate. It teaches candidates how to communicate like a banker, not just what the answer is. The full breakdown is on Structured Answers.

Pricing

Free: 7 questions a day. GOBLINMODE and GOBLIN100. Permanent free tier. New users complete a $0 Stripe Checkout to verify the account before practicing.

Accelerated: 80 questions a day. All four practice modes. $40 a month. Cancel anytime. No annual plan, no free trial.

Side-by-side breakdown on Free vs Accelerated. Plan details on the pricing page.

What else is on the platform

The Learn library — evergreen technical, behavioral, and recruiting articles.
The Recruiting guides — situation playbooks for MBA, undergrad, non-target, and international candidates.
The Excel shortcut trainer — keyboard shortcut drills for modeling tests and the desk.
The Question Bank — curated category pages and the practice surface.

How candidates actually use it

The most common pattern: open the app daily, run through the day's allotment in GOBLINMODE, and pull up Bank & Round in the week before a known interview. Most candidates supplement with articles on whichever weak spot the cards expose — if working capital keeps failing, read the working capital article, then drill that tag in Topics mode.

The goal is not to browse the largest archive. The goal is to convert the archive into the next correct rep, every day, until the offer is in hand.

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