What is an AI video interview?
An AI video interview is a spoken conversation between a candidate and an AI interviewer, held at a time the candidate chooses within 48 hours of the invite, and scored afterwards against the role. It is not a recorded-answer video test: the agent asks role-specific questions prepared from the job description and the candidate's resume, hears the answer, and follows up on it. Haira scores four dimensions — technical depth, job fit, communication and confidence — and every score ships with the full transcript. On the Growth and Enterprise plans the interview can also be recorded.
The questions come from the job description and the resume
Questions are written for each candidate from the job you created and their resume, within the topics, technologies and depth you specified. The interviewer follows up on what the candidate actually says, rather than reading a fixed list.
Four scored areas
Technical depth, job fit, communication and confidence are each scored, the same way for every candidate in a role. Location and work mode from the phone screen are shown as a note rather than scored, because they are circumstances, not ability.
The report also checks what the resume claims against what the candidate said, so you can see which claims they backed up and which the interview never reached.
What the candidate experiences
They get a link that is valid for 48 hours, join in a browser on a phone or a laptop at a time that suits them, and a pre-join check confirms microphone, camera and speaker before the session starts. There is no meeting time to coordinate and nothing to install.
A session is planned for 15 minutes by default and can run up to 20 when questions are left; the agent then ends it itself after letting a closing statement finish.
What happens straight after
The assessment is generated after the interview ends, usually within a few minutes: the scored breakdown, the transcript, identified strengths and gaps, and a recommendation. The transcript is kept with the score, which is what makes the recommendation reviewable rather than final. On the Growth and Enterprise plans the interview can also be recorded, and the recording is kept for 90 days on Growth and 365 on Enterprise.
Where this stops
There is no visual proctoring. Haira does no gaze tracking, no face detection and no background monitoring, so an AI video interview is not a supervised exam and should not be treated as one. The interview does enforce two rules — the camera stays on and the page stays in fullscreen — and ends the session when either is broken repeatedly. It also cannot assess anything that needs watching someone work — code written live, a whiteboard, a practical demonstration. It replaces the first screening call, not a technical round.
How does Haira conduct the AI video interview?
The AI video interview takes place in the candidate's browser, on a phone or a laptop, with the camera and microphone on. Haira's AI interviewer asks role-specific questions prepared from your job description and the candidate's resume. It listens to each answer in real time and asks follow-up questions. Afterwards the interview is scored on four dimensions: technical skills, job fit, communication, and confidence.
Last checked against Haira's own implementation on 2026-09-30.