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Stas Leonov
Stas Leonov

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I Used InterviewWatch to Stop Hiring Blind in Technical Interviews

I've been running remote interviews for about six months now and it's gotten ridiculous how often candidates clearly aren't actually doing the work themselves. Someone's got an AI tool whispering answers on a second monitor, or they're using a voice changer, or honestly sometimes it's just obvious they've got someone else at the keyboard. But you can't prove it from a video call, and that's where everything falls apart.

InterviewWatch actually solves this without being creepy about it. It's an alternative to Hirevue that doesn't record your screen or audio—it just detects what's actually happening on the candidate's machine. It catches AI assistants running in the background, remote desktop sessions, virtual cameras, monitor switching, all of it. The candidate runs the agent while you're interviewing them, and you get a live integrity score as you talk. After the call ends you get a tamper-evident report showing exactly what happened and when. I can actually ask about suspicious signals while we're still on the call instead of discovering problems after I've already moved someone forward.

The best part is it actually works with whatever hiring system you already have. Our ATS connected in about five minutes and candidates just agree to run it like any other tool. It feels fair to them because it's not secretly recording anything, and it's way more reliable than me trying to guess if someone's cheating based on how they're answering questions.

Check it out: interviewwatch.com

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