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AI interviewer for first-round screening

An AI interviewer for the applicants you invite. Not one extra phone screen.

GlowHR interviews your applicants, not just their resumes. It asks role-specific questions, follows up on vague answers, and scores every conversation, so your team starts from a ranked shortlist instead of a week of phone screens.

We onboard every team personally, one role at a time.

Example evidence report

Backend Engineer · Round 1

Ready for review

Sample candidate

Amina K.

Strong system-design reasoning. Identified the failure mode, explained the tradeoff, and supported the answer with a concrete debugging approach.

Rubric score

87

/ 100

Rubric breakdown

System design88
Problem solving91
Communication84

Evidence captured

TranscriptInterview recordingAI follow-upsRubric-based scoring

Threshold: 80 / 100

Meets threshold · Human review

  • Interviews people, not PDFs
  • Scales with applicants, not recruiter hours
  • People make every hiring decision
Two ways to hire

Bring your applicants. Or skip to pre-screened ones.

Run GlowHR on your own pipeline, or browse candidates who have already completed a GlowHR interview for common roles.

Screen your own applicants

Share one screening link. Applicants you invite get a structured AI interview; you get scores, transcripts, recordings, and a ranked shortlist in one place.

Hire from pre-screened talent

Browse candidates who have already interviewed with GlowHR for common roles, with scores, transcripts, and recordings ready before you reach out.

The screening bottleneck

Hiring doesn't have an applicant problem. It has a first-round problem.

Applying takes a candidate two minutes. Screening them properly takes your team thirty. Multiply that by every applicant, and the first round quietly eats the calendar.

  1. 01

    Applicants scale. Recruiter hours don't.

    One-click apply multiplied your pipeline. Your team's week stayed the same length.

  2. 02

    Every phone screen is a meeting.

    Thirty minutes, times every viable applicant, times every open role.

  3. 03

    A resume can't answer a follow-up.

    It shows where someone has worked, not how they think, explain, or handle a harder question.

First-round evidence

Backend Engineer · Round 1

Structured review

Role-specific questions

  • QHow would you debug a latency spike in production?
  • QWalk through your design for a queue-backed service.

Shared evaluation rubric

System designDebuggingCommunication

Same competencies scored for every candidate in the role.

Interview transcript

Q · Debugging
“I'd start with request traces, then compare queue depth against error rates.”

Follow-up · Tradeoffs
“Caching helps reads, but invalidation becomes the bottleneck under load.”

Evidence for each score

System design88

Chose queue-first scaling with clear tradeoff reasoning.

Debugging91

Structured hypothesis before proposing instrumentation.

Comparable evidence

3 interviewers · 1 rubric · same bar

How it works

Job description in. Ranked shortlist out.

Paste a job description and GlowHR builds the AI first-round interview. Share one screening link. Candidates interview on their own time; you review scored, ranked results and decide who to meet.

  1. Paste the job description.

    GlowHR drafts a role-specific interview and scoring rubric. You set the criteria before anyone applies.

  2. Share one link.

    Post it with the job or send it to applicants. Each candidate has a real conversation with the AI interviewer.

  3. Every answer gets scored.

    Each interview is scored against the same rubric, with notes, a full transcript, and a recording when enabled.

  4. You pick who advances.

    Review the ranked shortlist, check the evidence, and invite the best people to a human interview. GlowHR never makes that call.

GlowHR interview

Backend Engineer · Round 1

22:14

remaining

GlowHR

Walk me through how you would debug a latency spike in production.

Candidate

“I'd check queue depth first, then trace the slowest dependency before scaling out.”

GlowHR

What would you check if queue depth looked normal?

The AI interviewer

It doesn't just ask questions. It asks the next one.

One-way video interviews record answers. GlowHR responds to them: when an answer is vague, it follows up the way a good recruiter would, then scores the whole conversation against the role.

  • Questions written for this role, not a generic bank
  • A natural, two-way conversation
  • Follow-ups when an answer stays surface-level
  • Scored against your rubric, not a gut feeling
What you receive

Not a verdict. The evidence.

Every interview becomes a record you can inspect: what was asked, what was said, and why it scored the way it did. Compare candidates side by side and walk into the next round prepared.

  • 01 - Scores

    Rubric scores: one per competency, not one mystery number.

  • 02 - Supporting evidence

    The exact answers and notes that justify every score.

  • 03 - Transcript

    Every question, every answer, word for word.

  • 04 - Recording when enabled

    Watch the moment instead of reading about it. Available when recording is enabled.

  • 05 - Ranked shortlist

    Compare candidates side by side and choose who meets the team.

Review packet

Backend Engineer · Round 1

Ready for review

Candidate

Amina K.

Overall score

87 / 100

Competency scores

System design88
Problem solving91
Communication84

Evidence

TranscriptRecordingAI follow-upsRubric evidence

Review summary

Strengths: Clear debugging approach and strong technical reasoning.

Risks: Limited discussion of observability and failure recovery.

Follow-up: Probe production incident ownership.

Evidence organized · Human decision

Built for the roles you hire

One AI interviewer. Fluent in every role you hire.

Engineering, sales, or support: the questions and the rubric change with the job. Your screening process doesn't have to.

01

Technical

Probes problem solving, technical depth, and system design, and follows up when an answer stays surface-level.

Role rubric

Problem solvingDefined
Technical depthDefined
System designDefined
Role-specific judgmentDefined

Same process · role-specific rubric

02

Sales & customer-facing

Tests discovery, objection handling, and how clearly a candidate communicates under pushback.

Role rubric

CommunicationDefined
DiscoveryDefined
Objection handlingDefined
Customer judgmentDefined

Same process · role-specific rubric

03

Operations & support

Checks prioritization and practical judgment as candidates work through a messy, real-world problem.

Role rubric

PrioritizationDefined
CommunicationDefined
Problem solvingDefined
Practical judgmentDefined

Same process · role-specific rubric

Trust & evidence

Nothing hidden from candidates. Nothing hidden from you.

Candidates know the format, and whether they're recorded, before they begin. Your team sees exactly how every score was reached and controls who can see candidate data.

  • Told upfront

    Format and recording are disclosed before the interview starts. No surprises.

  • Same bar for everyone

    Every candidate for a role is scored against the same core criteria.

  • Scores you can challenge

    Open any score and see the rubric and the answers behind it.

  • Controlled access

    Set retention and deletion, and decide who on your team can see candidate information.

Trust inspection

Candidate session · Inspectable evidence

Reviewable

Candidate disclosure

Recording and review path explained before the session.

Tell candidates what is recorded and how it will be reviewed before the interview starts.

Consistent criteria

Core prompt · Time box · Role criteria

Give candidates the same core prompt, time box, and role criteria.

Audit trail

Transcripts · Notes · Scores · Session records

Keep transcripts, notes, scores, and session records available when enabled.

Scoring logic

Rubric visible per competency score

Show the rubric behind each score so reviewers can challenge it.

Screening workload

Per open role · First-round screens

Live estimate

Screening time at stake

60 hours

per open role

GlowHR can return structure; your team still decides who advances.

The screening math

More applicants shouldn't mean more phone screens.

Manual first rounds scale linearly: every applicant adds another call. Move the sliders to see how many hours of first-round calls sit on the calendar for one role.

FAQ

Before you hand the first round to AI.

How screening works, what you get back, and who decides. The Privacy Policy covers how candidate data is handled.

Ready when your next role opens

Let AI take the first round. You take the final one.

GlowHR interviews applicants you invite, so your recruiters and hiring managers only meet the people worth meeting.