AI now runs the first round at thousands of companies: video interviews, phone screens, coding tests, and English assessments. These guides explain how each format works, what the AI actually evaluates, and how to prepare. Written by the team that builds AI interview software at Hyring.
An AI video interview is a recorded interview where you answer questions on camera and artificial intelligence evaluates your responses. Preparation comes down to three things: your answers, your setup, and your delivery.
Read the guideA one-way video interview is a recorded interview where you answer preset questions on camera by a deadline, with no interviewer present. The format rewards candidates who understand its rules: retakes, time limits, and the strange feeling of talking to nobody.
Read the guideA video interview setup is the device, camera, lighting, audio, internet, and room arrangement you use to record an interview. Getting it right takes ten focused minutes and zero purchased equipment.
Read the guideVideo interview body language comes down to five things the camera captures: your eye line, your framing, your posture, your hands, and your face. AI scoring cares mostly about your words. Human reviewers watching clips notice presence.
Read the guideThe STAR method structures interview answers into Situation, Task, Action, and Result. In AI interviews, where software scores your transcript, that structure is worth even more than it is in a live room.
Read the guideCommon AI interview questions are the preset behavioral, situational, and motivation questions that AI-powered interviews draw from. The pool is predictable because every candidate for a role gets the same questions.
Read the guideAI interview mistakes fall into four groups: process errors before you record, weak content in your answers, delivery habits on camera, and judgment calls that get you flagged. Most are cheap to fix once you can name them.
Read the guideAn AI phone interview is a screening call where an AI voice asks you questions, transcribes your answers, and scores them for the hiring team. With no camera and no human on the line, your pace, clarity, and answer structure carry the entire impression.
Read the guideAn AI coding interview is a live technical screen where an AI interviewer poses programming problems, watches you solve them in a browser IDE, and asks follow-up questions about your solution. Preparation means practicing the format, not just the problems.
Read the guideAn English proficiency test in hiring is an automated assessment that scores your speaking against the CEFR scale from A1 to C2. Two weeks of the right practice moves your result more than any test-day trick.
Read the guideAI interview proctoring is the monitoring layer that verifies who's taking an online interview or assessment and watches for signs of outside help. If you're playing fair, its job is to protect you, not to catch you.
Read the guideAI scores interviews by transcribing your answers and evaluating the transcript against the role's criteria, then packaging the results into a recruiter-facing report. Content carries the score. Delivery is a minor input.
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