Whenever something isn't clear, or you haven't understood it right, it is always recommended to clarify with the interviewer clearly.
Hyring Meet is a live interview with a person, and not an automated interview. A recruiter or hiring manager leads it and asks the questions themselves, so nothing is pre-recorded and no software standing between your answer and the next question. If a question is ambiguous, you can ask what they mean by it. If you missed the second half, you can ask them to repeat it.
This is what separates Hyring Meet from our AI Video Interviewer, where the AI runs the interview itself with no human on the call. Hyring Meet is built for the rounds a human should lead, and the interviewer is free to rephrase a question, give you an example, or come back to something later. They are also being offered follow-up questions based on your resume as the conversation goes, so the interview is expected to be variable rather than a set monotonous list!
Asking for clarification is not marked against you. What gets scored are your technical answers, question by question, and how you communicate - fluency, grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation. None of the integrity signals we check has anything to do with a candidate asking questions. Your interviewer also fills in their own scorecard with their rating and comments, so a sensible question for clarification is read as someone making sure they answer the right question and not something negative.
Practically, ten seconds spent getting the question straight beats two minutes spent answering a different one. And since the whole conversation is transcribed with speakers separated, a question you asked reads back later as a question you asked.
