Are AI interviews legit?
AI interviews are a real and now common part of hiring, and they are also a convenient cover for scams. The difference is checkable. A genuine one is run by an identifiable company for an identifiable role, never asks you for money, and can tell you what happens to your recording.
We run one ourselves, so treat this page as an interested party being specific rather than a neutral referee.
How do I know if an AI interview is a scam?
Check who is asking and what they want from you. Legitimate hiring never requires payment from a candidate, never needs your bank details before an offer, and can name the employer and the role. Those three checks remove almost every fake process.
| Warning sign | What a real process looks like |
|---|---|
| You are asked to pay a fee for the interview, training or a visa. | You are never asked for money at any stage of hiring. |
| Bank details or identity documents requested before any offer. | Those come after an offer, through the employer's own systems. |
| The employer and the role are vague or keep changing. | A named company, a named role, a describable process. |
| Pressure to record immediately or lose the chance. | A reasonable window, and a way to ask questions first. |
| No answer about what happens to your recording. | A clear answer about who sees it and how to delete it. |
Can an AI interview judge me fairly?
It can judge some things consistently and other things not at all. What a structured interview does well is ask every candidate the same questions and score against the same guide, which removes the variation you get when a tired human runs the same call for the ninth time that day.
What it cannot do is read the room, hear what you nearly said, or account for context you did not mention. Consistency is a real advantage, and it is not the same thing as complete judgement. Any company telling you their system fully understands you is overselling.
What is it actually listening for?
Whether your answer addresses the question, whether you gave a concrete example, and whether your reasoning holds together. It is not scoring your accent, your speaking speed, or how elaborate your vocabulary is.
This is worth knowing because it changes how you should answer. Short and specific beats long and impressive. Candidates who try to sound formal usually do worse than candidates who simply say what they did.
What happens to my recording?
This is the question worth asking every time, of every platform, before you record anything. A company that cannot answer it clearly has told you something important about itself.
For our part: practice rounds are never recorded and cannot be shared, which is enforced on our servers rather than promised in a policy. The one take you choose to record is what goes to hiring teams, alongside your score and your strongest answers. Your weaker takes and any coaching notes stay private. You can delete your takes and your profile at any time, and that deletion is permanent.
Should I use AI to answer for me?
It is a bad trade. Tools that feed you answers during a live interview produce responses that sound generic under any follow-up question, and the interview is not the last stage. If you are hired on answers that were not yours, the gap shows up in the job, where it is far more expensive to discover.
Questions to ask before you record
- Which company and which role is this interview for?
- Who sees the recording, and for how long is it kept?
- Can I delete it later?
- Is there a practice round, and is that recorded too?
- What happens after I record, and when will I hear?
Our own answers to these are on how it works. If another platform will not answer them, that is your answer.