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Automatic, AI-generated interview notes by Metaview

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This is a great application of AI summarization. You can focus more on the candidate when you're not writing things down in the interview. Also, as a candidate, noticing your interviewer typing/writing is also pretty offputting.

The next-level thing would be having a way to tailor the generated summary to your particular notes style/format.

> as a candidate, noticing your interviewer typing/writing is also pretty offputting.

Really? For me it shows they are doing their work properly instead of just depending on their memory.

I've found it quite off-putting. I tend to pause when someone is typing furiously, so they have time to catch up. But then this can disrupt the flow of conversation and is a bit awkward

I'm more thinking about interviewers that seem to be continuously typing while I'm talking without following up on things I've said. Perhaps with a summary feature like this they could be more present, and make the interview feel more like a conversation than a verbal form.

Ah I see your point. I just pause when they start typing and let them finish. I consider it a polite indication that I let them finish storing what I said in longer-term memory and that at the same time I would prefer they focus on what I say.

As long as they type quietly I'm all good. It's the loud typers that get me >:(

As an interviewee you can use the interviewer's typing as a good signal. When I'm conducting an LP interview and you go off on a tangent that I'm not interested in, I'll stop typing and look up long before I'm likely to interrupt you.

Now I'm not _expecting_ anyone to pick up on that. My point is it's a useful skill to engage (even via zoom) with the other person and develop a feel for how they're processing the info you're giving them. Otherwise the interviewee could just talk to a transcription AI in the first place and the hiring team reads the summary (shudders).

Though now I've said that, someone is probably going to build this nightmare version.

Expecting an interviewee to pick up on that and manage the conversation is completely unrealistic, and it’s unfair to put that on them—if you’re not interested in the direction they took the question, have the guts to say so and redirect them.

An next iteration where I could get the AI output in exactly the format I write my scorecards in would be fantastic. It'd save me so much time, especially on days with multiple back-to-back interviews

My best practice is to say “Hey, I’m going to be typing notes during this interview so that I don’t misrepresent you in the debrief. I’m not doing email on the side or anything!”

To be relevant to this post: I love the promise of this product. Thanks for the extensive info on security and privacy; that’s crucial.

What I really hoped from an interview process, other than automated resume screening, and ever more stages and screening calls - is of course a little more AI involvement.

What really puzzles me though - is why we are wasting time on interviews - where we could instead be working on getting AI into performance reviews and setting compensation!

Slick animation halfway down the page.

Does this work with arbitrary questions and does it summarise the questions? I find I tend to waffle on sometimes when asking questions (which could indicate a bad habit)

Co-founder here. Questions are automatically detected and tidied up. So, we un-waffle. Another consequence of this is that if there's a question like "tell me more about that", we often detect what "that" is referring to and 'expand' the question to something like "tell me more about your last role".

It would be so good for system design interviews. There’s usually so much information flowing that I find it impossible to take notes without long pauses.

Such an interesting feature. I find I often miss things a candidate says because I'm trying to take notes. Being able to focus on the candidate would be a real game changer

Curious to hear people's thoughts. Why is a feature like this better than using a more general meeting note-taker?

Tangential - sites with these kinds of scroll-linked/triggered animations are often annoying or obnoxious, but I think this one gets it right.

Co-founder here. We spend a fair bit of time thinking about this actually. I think the key is to always have something moving proportionally to scroll, otherwise you lose your sense of speed+position and get lost.

is there supposed to be audio on the explainer video?

There is not :)

Oh! i thought maybe it had the audio removed for copyright etc, lol. May be worth putting some voiceover - i checked my volume, audio device, then clicked through to youtube to check it. Then i checked another youtube video only to realise it was the video, not my setup :)

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