Automate candidate screening. Create a quiz and set evaluation prompts for each question. Equip AI will evaluate candidates' text, audio or video responses and rank them. Effective for recruiters. Convenient for candidates.
@manu_goel2 that is right! We are giving away 50 free credits until the end of next week. You should give it a try.
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Looks great! I feel like as a point of feedback I'm starting to see teams actually want ChatGPT, Cursor, Copilot, etc for hiring, especially for coding interviews.
I know there's a huge blowback against using these for copypaste solutions, but I've noticed that key talent has been using AI the most to actually enhance their workflow and reach that complex endstate for a feature faster than they would have normally done so by hand. If you could somehow rate effectiveness of use of AI tools like this during interviews, I think you could take that type of differentiator to some really big outfits.
Not to detract from how this looks! I also love that you essentially making recruiting from the entire funnel from intern -> professional easy to do on the platform, following and keep it up!
Thanks, @csurita! Our AI Interviews product itself was built via Claude Code. If not for CC, we'd have taken at least 5x longer to ship this. So, I completely agree that because AI usage is becoming commonplace, we should let candidates use AI in their interviews. For both tech and non-tech roles.
In fact, that product is in our pipeline. We are building a conversational interview interface which will contain a whiteboard, an IDE and even an LLM window. This is for candidates who are further down the hiring lifecycle. The questions that will be asked of them will be more complex of course. And, the evaluation will depend a lot more on "taste" and alignment between the hiring company and the candidate. "Monorepos v/s multirepos", for eg.
The problem isn't just candidates using deepfakes anymore. Now fake employers are using them to scam job seekers too - creating convincing "HR reps" for fraudulent interviews.
As a former overachiever with pre-exam jitters, I'm nervous but excited for our first Product Hunt launch! Okay, here it goes...
Why We Built AI Interviews
We kept hearing the same frustration from recruiters: screening hundreds of candidates is incredibly time-consuming, yet impossible to skip. Traditional methods either lack depth or are too resource-intensive. Recruiters were stuck choosing between efficiency and quality - UNTIL TODAY.
I’m Jayanth, the founder of Equip. We are a skill assessment platform for recruiters. With our online assessments, we help you identify the best-skilled candidates for a particular role. We are a tiny team (just 5 of us!) but have assessed 170,000+ candidates in the past 3 years.
While objective questions like MCQs make it easy to rank candidates, a lot of the nuance of natural language responses is lost if you just select an option in a question. When you interview a candidate, you don't just give them 4 choices, do you?
To improve the screening process, we built AI Interviews. If you are evaluating several people (for hiring, but also for a competition say), you can add the same question you'd have asked them on a call and prompt the AI to evaluate like you'd have. For eg, if your question is "What's your favorite pizza topping?", your prompt can be "Award negative points if they mention pineapples".
What's more, you can specify whether the candidate must answer via text, audio or video. Our AI will handle everything at its end. I'll be honest; at least as of now, we are a GPT-wrapper. So, our AI is as intelligent as ChatGPT, Claude, etc. That is, it is more intelligent than you and me :P
Many candidates, and even some recruiters, complain that using AI in the initial stages of hiring is inhuman. Tbh, if I was a candidate, and if an AI interview was the first round, I'd be frustrated too. But, think about it. We are perfectly fine with student exams being automatically evaluated by marking bubbles on an OMR paper. We understand it is a practical matter and because the technology exists thousands of students can attempt the exam and get results cheaply, reliably and instantly.
My hope is that our AI Interviews achieve the same kind of effect. Many candidates are rejected way too early because their CV doesn't look good. If a recruiter has to process thousands of CVs, we can't blame them for missing the needle in the haystack. With AI Interviews, the playing field is leveled. Every candidate gets a chance to showcase their skill, knowledge and experience.
The Equip team itself is a set of misfits, with many of our current roles not reflecting our educational or previous work experience. We are doing alright, you know? I mean, we built this together and we got someone like you to read about it!
Have you tried the demo test? Check it out and let us know what you think!
Congrats on the launch @jayanth_neelakanta @siddharthsampath @faizanjan_
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Thanks, @lakshya_singh :)
Congrats on your launch 🎉🎉
Awesome tool ❤
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@chape thanks!
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@nireka thank you so much! :D
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Looks useful, congrats on a launch 🔥
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@danpole thank you!
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@marcusfreeland haha thanks! Happy to hear you liked the video.
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@manu_goel2 that is right! We are giving away 50 free credits until the end of next week. You should give it a try.
Looks great! I feel like as a point of feedback I'm starting to see teams actually want ChatGPT, Cursor, Copilot, etc for hiring, especially for coding interviews.
I know there's a huge blowback against using these for copypaste solutions, but I've noticed that key talent has been using AI the most to actually enhance their workflow and reach that complex endstate for a feature faster than they would have normally done so by hand. If you could somehow rate effectiveness of use of AI tools like this during interviews, I think you could take that type of differentiator to some really big outfits.
Not to detract from how this looks! I also love that you essentially making recruiting from the entire funnel from intern -> professional easy to do on the platform, following and keep it up!
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Thanks, @csurita! Our AI Interviews product itself was built via Claude Code. If not for CC, we'd have taken at least 5x longer to ship this. So, I completely agree that because AI usage is becoming commonplace, we should let candidates use AI in their interviews. For both tech and non-tech roles.
In fact, that product is in our pipeline. We are building a conversational interview interface which will contain a whiteboard, an IDE and even an LLM window. This is for candidates who are further down the hiring lifecycle. The questions that will be asked of them will be more complex of course. And, the evaluation will depend a lot more on "taste" and alignment between the hiring company and the candidate. "Monorepos v/s multirepos", for eg.