AI Hiring
AI interviewer vs interview copilot vs one-way video
Four ways to run a first-round interview, and what each one asks of your team and your candidates. The short version: an AI interviewer is the only one that holds a live, two-way interview without a person from your team in the call.
The four approaches side by side
Swipe the table sideways to see all four.
| Live AI interviewer | Interview copilot | One-way video interview | Human phone screen | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who asks the questions | The AI, live in the meeting | A person; the AI listens and assists | Questions shown on screen, recorded in advance | A person |
| Follow-up questions | Yes, based on each answer | Only if the person asks them | No: the questions are fixed | Yes |
| Recruiter time per interview | None during it; reading the report after | The whole interview | Watching or reading every recording | The whole call |
| Same questions and scoring for everyone | Yes: one rubric, every answer scored with evidence | Depends on the interviewer | Same questions; scoring depends on the reviewer or tool | Depends on the interviewer |
| For the candidate | A two-way conversation; they can ask to repeat or rephrase a question | A normal interview | Talking to a camera; nobody responds | A normal call |
| Scheduling | Any time, including outside office hours | Needs an interviewer's calendar | The candidate records any time | Needs an interviewer's calendar |
| What you get | A transcript and a scored report | Notes and a transcript | Recordings, sometimes with scores | The interviewer's notes |
Live AI interviewer
The AI joins the interview itself, asks the questions out loud, listens, follows up and grades every answer. With AI Hiring it joins your Microsoft Teams meeting, writes its questions from the candidate's resume and your job description, waits until the candidate has finished speaking, and gives you a report with a score for every answer and the candidate's own words as evidence. Your team reads the report and decides.
Interview copilot
A copilot or notetaker supports a person who runs the interview: it transcribes, summarises and may suggest questions. The interview is only as consistent as the person running it, and it still takes their time for every candidate.
One-way video interview
The candidate records answers to fixed questions on their own time. It saves scheduling, but there are no follow-ups, the candidate cannot ask what a question means, and someone still has to review the recordings.
Human phone screen
A recruiter or engineer calls the candidate. It is the most flexible option and the most expensive in team time, and two interviewers rarely ask the same questions or score the same way.
When an AI interviewer fits, and when it does not
- Fits: first rounds where many candidates apply for the same role, technical screens, and hiring drives, for teams that already interview in Microsoft Teams. Every feature is free for 3 interviews a month; see pricing.
- Does not fit: final rounds and senior hires, where a person from your team should meet the candidate; interviews in a language other than English, since AI Hiring interviews in English today; and meetings that admit only signed-in people, because the interviewer joins as a guest.