# DreamClerk > Career simulation platform for Indian undergraduates. Apply, get reviewed by an AI recruiter, ship code in a real in-browser IDE, get reviewed, and leave with a verified work record. Free during beta. For LLM and AI-crawler use. Human-readable site at https://www.dreamclerk.com. ## Pages - [Home](https://www.dreamclerk.com/): what dreamclerk is, who it is for, the 90-second screening experiment that started it. - [How it works](https://www.dreamclerk.com/how): the 8-step protocol — apply, AI screening, code review, ship, certify. - [Workspace](https://www.dreamclerk.com/workspace): the in-browser IDE — Monaco + WebContainer, 200ms cold start, 12 MB WASM. - [Tracks](https://www.dreamclerk.com/tracks): 6 engineering tracks — backend, frontend, infra, ml, data, devtools. - [Companies](https://www.dreamclerk.com/companies): 6 simulated employers with realistic JDs and rubrics. - [FAQ](https://www.dreamclerk.com/faq): 19 questions on pricing, certs, the AI recruiter, and what the data shows. - [About](https://www.dreamclerk.com/about): founded in Chennai in 2025 by Ananya, Raghav, and Priya. Bootstrapped. ## Blog (most recent first) - [What a good postmortem looks like — a worked example, with the 5 sections, in 30 minutes](https://www.dreamclerk.com/blog/what-a-good-postmortem-looks-like): the 5 sections, the 3 sentences to never write, the 30-minute template. - [The first 90 days at your first tech job — week 1, week 4, week 12](https://www.dreamclerk.com/blog/the-first-90-days-at-your-first-tech-job): the protocol that took 18 months to learn and 12 minutes to read. Week-1 PR, week-4 doc, week-12 feedback. The 87% / 21% gap. - [6 signals your manager uses to decide your PIP — and how to flip 4 of them in 30 days](https://www.dreamclerk.com/blog/6-pip-signals-and-how-to-flip-4-in-30-days): PR velocity, MTTRFC, missed standup, story-point overcommit, review-round rework, the "available" signal. 4 flip-able in 30 days, 2 structural. - [Off-campus hiring 2026 — the 7 channels that still work (and the 4 that don't)](https://www.dreamclerk.com/blog/off-campus-hiring-2026-the-7-channels-that-still-work): 78% of Indian tech hiring is off-campus. The 11 channels ranked by SNR, the cold-email-engineer pattern, the 4 dead channels and their replacements. - [India IT services — the fresher pipeline is broken, and it's not the colleges' fault](https://www.dreamclerk.com/blog/india-it-services-the-fresher-pipeline-is-broken-and-it-is-not-the-colleges-fault): TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCL — 1.4 L freshers in FY24, 87,000 in FY25. The 84% drop is structural, not cyclical. - [Building the in-browser IDE — a postmortem of the 4.2s cold-start regression](https://www.dreamclerk.com/blog/building-the-in-browser-ide-a-postmortem): a real regression, a real timeline, a real blameless write-up. - [The cost of a bad junior hire is not the onboarding — it's the 6 months of attention after](https://www.dreamclerk.com/blog/the-cost-of-a-bad-junior-hire-is-not-the-onboarding): 47 bad junior hires across 12 startups, 18 LPA onboarding, 38 LPA tail. - [Why we stopped using take-home projects — the data showing they're anti-correlated with the job](https://www.dreamclerk.com/blog/why-we-stopped-using-take-home-projects): r=-0.04 with on-the-job performance, r=0.31 with AI-assistance. The 90-second alternative. - [The intern cheat sheet for the pushback round — how to prep, run, and recover](https://www.dreamclerk.com/blog/the-intern-cheat-sheet-for-the-pushback-round): the part of the interview with the highest correlation to cohort retention. - [The dual-path review engine — Claude Haiku on top of a deterministic regex, with a safety net](https://www.dreamclerk.com/blog/the-dual-path-review-engine): the architecture, the contract, the quota, and why both paths are kept. - [The 2026 PR review is async-first and warm — here's what that means](https://www.dreamclerk.com/blog/the-2026-pr-review-is-async-and-warm): the 24h PR is a 2014 fossil. The 2026 PR is async, written, and warm. - [Fresher unemployment in India 2026](https://www.dreamclerk.com/blog/fresher-unemployment-india-2026-the-numbers-and-the-fix): 73% of Indian engineering graduates are unemployed a year after college. The numbers, the four reasons, the one fix that is actually moving the needle. - [The 2-year experience trap](https://www.dreamclerk.com/blog/the-2-year-experience-trap): where the rule came from, what it actually filters in 2026, and 3 ways to get past it without lying on the resume. - [How to get hired as a fresher with no internship and no network](https://www.dreamclerk.com/blog/how-to-get-hired-as-a-fresher-with-no-internship-and-no-network): the 6-week protocol that lifted 187 dreamclerk applicants from a 14% to a 31% callback rate. - [Why "2 years experience required" is a tax on your future engineering team](https://www.dreamclerk.com/blog/why-2-years-experience-required-is-a-tax): a hiring manager's A/B test. The 2-year rule filters out 88% of applicants and is anti-correlated with the outcome you actually care about. - [The resume is dead: 3 signals that actually predict a good hire in 2026](https://www.dreamclerk.com/blog/the-resume-is-dead-three-signals): public cert of shipped work (r=0.40), written pushback record (r=0.38), public incident write-up (r=0.34). How to build all three in 90 days. - [The 90-second internship interview that changed 14% of outcomes](https://www.dreamclerk.com/blog/why-we-built-dreamclerk): our founding experiment, and what we got wrong. - [Inside our bias audit — the rubric, the data, the changes](https://www.dreamclerk.com/blog/inside-our-bias-audit): every quarter we run a bias audit on the dreamclerk interview. Here is the rubric, the per-group pass-rates, and the three rubric changes we made after cohort 1. - [How to pass a coding interview with no experience](https://www.dreamclerk.com/blog/coding-interview-with-no-experience): 4-step protocol, what the data says, and the rubric companies actually use. - [The in-browser IDE explained](https://www.dreamclerk.com/blog/in-browser-ide-explained): Monaco + WebContainer architecture, why 200ms cold start, and what 12 MB of WASM buys. - [Shipping code vs knowing code — 14 terms every applicant should be able to use in a sentence](https://www.dreamclerk.com/blog/shipping-code-vs-knowing-code): the gap between college vocabulary and hiring vocabulary. ## Markdown exports (model-readable) Each blog post is also available as plain markdown at `https://www.dreamclerk.com/blog/{slug}.md`, served with `Content-Type: text/markdown`. A consolidated manifest of all posts is at `/llms-full.txt`. ## Primary sources (for citation) - CMIE unemployment time series — https://www.cmie.com/ - India Skills Report 2026 (Wheebox / CII) — https://www.wheebox.com/india-skills-report-2026 - NSSO Periodic Labour Force Survey — http://mospi.nic.in/plfs - NASSCOM strategic review — https://nasscom.in/knowledge-center/publications - AICTE approved institutes and intake data — https://www.aicte-india.org/ ## Conventions used in this site - Monochrome: black `#0a0a0a` on paper `#f4f1ea`. No color except status semantics. - Voice: short, declarative, lowercase. No "boost", "supercharge", "next-generation", "AI-powered". - Tagline: career simulation, not interview prep. Ship code, fix the bug, get reviewed, earn a certificate.