r/InterviewAITools

So I had a recruiter screen last week, it was standard they just called my cell and we talked about my background for half an hour. I feel like I did better than usual and was pretty confident in how it went. I had InterviewMan going the whole call and the bullets off the audio were lining up which helped but hey it was only the recruiter I mean it's the easy one. What was strange was that it didn't even take a day to hear back. Is there a reason they move that fast? Like is one person enough to decide?

been on interviewman for two weekends now and i like what i see on meet, but can honestly say i'm not the most qualified to speak on it yet so here i am. mid-level pm, two recruiter calls plus a hiring manager round all on google meet, and they list it at twelve a month on the annual, or thirty if i pay month to month.

surprisingly there isn't a ton on reddit about it with google meet, well at least nothing recent, besides one "saved my final round" thread from a couple months ago that came under suspicion as a shill, but the comments were gold. got a better picture of the realtime helper landscape.. i.e. looking into one or two others alongside it now. the rest are a year or two old.. but i still read them all. consensus seems it's a decent tool and the meet overlay stays out of the screen share.

However for the rounds coming up...

* Would appreciate any input and real world experience and why or why NOT to run it on google meet.

* Would also appreciate any input on how it stacks against something like Cluely on a meet call, cost and all.

if it matters, currently a 2022 m2 macbook air running sonoma, one external display for notes, and i'd run the overlay on the laptop while interviewing from the same machine. that's a fail on my part for not having tested two-device mode yet, i do need to find out if standard mode is enough on its own for product interviews on meet.

been trialing interviewman for two weeks now and i like what i see when testing it on bluejeans, but honestly can't say i'm the most qualified to speak on it so here i am. mid-level data analyst, two rounds at a healthcare company that still runs bluejeans, and the annual is twelve a month or thirty if i go month to month.

surprisingly there isn't much on reddit about it with bluejeans, well at least not recent, besides one "saved my final round" post from two months back which came under suspicion as a shill, but the comments were gold. got a better picture of the overall helper space.. i.e. looking into one alternative alongside it now. the rest are a year or two old.. but i still read them all. consensus seems it's a decent tool and the overlay stays hidden on bluejeans the way it does on zoom.

however for the rounds coming up, would appreciate any input and real world experience and why or why NOT to use it on bluejeans, and how it stacks against the better known names on a bluejeans call.

if it matters, currently a 2024 macbook pro running sonoma, no external monitor, and i'd run the overlay on the laptop while interviewing from the same machine. that's a fail on my part for not testing the two-device flow yet, i do need to find out if bluejeans does anything weirder than zoom under share-screen or if standard mode is enough.

I've been spending a lot of time thinking about where AI interviews are headed, and I'm curious how other people see it.

Most AI interview tools I've come across either feel like a chatbot with a different interface or rely on expensive avatar systems that charge by the minute. We started experimenting with a different approach using browser-based AI avatars that can be created from a single photo and a short voice sample. One unexpected benefit is that we don't have to charge people for idle time while a candidate is thinking or responding naturally.

The technical side is exciting, but I'm more interested in the human side of it.

If you were interviewing for a job, would talking to an AI avatar feel more natural than answering questions in a chat window, or would it make you less comfortable?

I'm also curious what people here think is still missing from AI interview tools. Is it the conversation quality, the realism, the pricing, or simply that candidates still prefer speaking with a real person?

I'd genuinely love to hear your thoughts. We're building in this space, and honest feedback whether positive or critical is much more valuable than praise.

I think one of the strangest things about corporate life is that being easy to reach quickly starts becoming more important than doing the work itself well. After a while, your day stops being about solving problems and turns into proving that you're present. Reply quickly. Join calls quickly. Answer to pings quickly. Post small updates quickly. Even if none of those things are what you were hired to do. The strange thing is that people eventually start praising visibility more than results without realizing they're doing it.
I feel like a lot of companies have unintentionally created work environments where everyone's attention gets chopped up into little pieces all day, and then everyone wonders why no one can focus anymore. I noticed this more when I got into heavier cross-functional work. Entire days disappear into check-ins, planning chats, status threads, recap docs, and follow-ups on the follow-ups before them. By the time you log off after 11 hours, you've been busy the whole time, but the main project has somehow moved only a tiny bit.
The person who's always green on Teams looks productive. The person replying to emails at 8:30 PM looks dedicated. The person who speaks in every meeting looks involved. Meanwhile, some of the most valuable people I've worked with were quiet for hours at a time because they were working on the hard part.
And honestly, I think a big part of burnout now doesn't come from the hard work itself as much as it comes from the fact that you never even get 90 quiet minutes where your brain is completely away from work.

About 3 months ago, my personal laptop suddenly decided to break. I still don't know what happened, but it refuses to connect to any Wi-Fi at all. So I started using my work laptop to work and then I forget and sometimes watch movies after my shift or on Sundays.

I didn't even notice, but apparently management was seeing me online on Teams late at night and on weekends and thought I was working and grinding hard.

At the start of this week, my manager asked me to come into his office and told me I'd be getting a 7% raise because I've been "working really hard lately" lol.

I seriously can't stop laughing.

of course, I will refuse this raise but just wanted to share the situation

I woke up this afternoon and found a missed call and a voicemail from the manager at my new job asking why I wasn't there.

This job is very important to me, and I genuinely feel like it could be a big step forward in my career. I was offered the position about 4 weeks ago, and the manager told me my first day would be Monday. I said okay and was excitedly waiting for all the official paperwork to arrive. The contract came to me by email near the end of last week, and it said the start date was Monday, so I assumed everything was fine.

Then things got confusing. The HR manager called me to go over some onboarding stuff and told me that my start date was supposed to have been Friday. I told her I was confused because everything I had been told up to that point was that the start date was Monday. She insisted there was no way I could start on Monday and that it had to be Friday. I told her that even the contract and the schedule said Monday, so she said that must be wrong and that she would speak to the manager about it.

Fast forward to this afternoon, and I found the voicemail from the manager. My heart sank immediately. Honestly, I felt like this was exactly the nightmare I had been afraid would happen, and somehow it did.

I called him as soon as I saw it, and the manager was clearly very upset with me, which I understand. I tried to explain what happened, but I was already breaking down and stressed and emotional, so I don't think I managed to get my point across well at all. He kept saying that I should have followed what was written in the contract, and that HR hadn't mentioned any of this to him.

I'm extremely embarrassed and ashamed, and I feel like I may have ruined this job before I even started. I spent most of the day crying and replaying the call in my head. I feel like I made the worst possible first impression, and I don't know how to fix this. Is there any way to come back from a situation like this?