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Read Your Own Interview Transcripts

If you do screening calls, read your own transcripts with AI.

After a few calls I gave the transcripts to an agent and asked it to be brutally honest: do I talk too much, are my questions leading, where did I fail to follow up, and how could I manage the time better?

The answer was not flattering. I talked between 36% and 52% of every call, explained our setup before I heard how the candidate works, and kept repeating their answers back in a better form, which always got "yes, exactly" and told me nothing. None of this felt wrong while I was in the call, and I only saw it when I read it afterwards.