AI interview notes with a short summary for the hiring manager
note1 records the interview and takes AI interview notes while you listen. After the call you get a summary of the candidate's answers and a transcript you can search. Add Prep Notes first with the resume, your questions and the role's must-haves.
Interview transcript
Product manager interview - Google Meet
Can you walk me through a recent project where you owned the rollout from planning to delivery?
I led the launch of our onboarding redesign, coordinated the handoff across design and engineering, and owned the release checklist through QA.
What tradeoffs did you have to make when deadlines and quality expectations started to conflict?
Listen to the candidate while note1 takes the notes
Recruiters and hiring managers can look at the candidate, ask follow-up questions and keep the talk moving. note1 records every answer.
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Full recording
The whole interview is saved when the call ends, so you can play any part again.
Written transcript
Every answer in writing, ready to search.
Who's talking
Your questions and the candidate's answers are labeled, so they're easy to tell apart.
Search later
Find an example the candidate gave when the hiring team asks about it.
Bring candidate prep into the interview summary
Some of what matters never gets said in the call. Add the resume, the scorecard and your planned questions before the interview, and note1 uses them when it writes the summary.
Prep before the call
Write down resume notes, must-haves and questions before the candidate joins.
Guide the summary
note1 reads your Prep Notes, so the summary can cover the criteria your team set.
Compare with your prep
Your prep and the candidate's answers sit on the same meeting page.
Prep Notes
Candidate screen - shared workspace
Interview summary
Candidate review page
Overview
Candidate shared a strong example of leading a rollout across design and engineering, with specific ownership over planning, QA handoff, and release timing.
Highlights
- Gave a clear example of owning a release from plan to launch.
- Useful detail on tradeoffs between speed and quality.
- Follow-up needed on prioritization framework and stakeholder communication.
Your AI interview summary, ready before the debrief
After the call, note1 writes a summary page with the main takeaways. Choose the Job Interview summary style and it's sorted into sections like experience, role fit, strengths, concerns, the candidate's questions and next steps.
Quick recap
Read the interview in summary form before the debrief.
Takeaways with timestamps
Each key point and example has a time you can click to hear it.
Search first
Type a word and jump to the answer, without scrubbing through the whole recording.
Find candidate answers by question, phrase, or speaker
Search the transcript to reread an answer or check how something was worded, weeks after the call.
Exact words
Check what the candidate said before you repeat it in the hiring review.
Speaker labels
Lines are labeled by person, even in a panel interview.
Hear the answer
Play the recording from where an answer started.
Transcript search
Look up rollout, tradeoff or leadership examples by keyword.
Back-and-forth view
Read the interview as a conversation, one turn at a time.
Recap and transcript
Switch between the short recap and the full transcript on the same page.
Debrief-ready
Go into the hiring review with the candidate's answers already sorted.
Interview follow-ups
Next steps from this interview
Recruiter - Schedule final panel interview and share availability.
Hiring Manager - Review candidate rollout example before debrief.
Team - Prepare follow-up questions on launch tradeoffs and QA ownership.
Share the interview with the rest of the hiring team
With Team visibility, everyone in your note1 workspace can open the interview. With Private, only participants and the people you add, like the hiring manager and the panel, can see it. The follow-up questions for the next round stay with the interview.
Action items from interviews
Follow-up questions and next steps stay on the list after the call.
Ready for the debrief
Bring the summary and the recording to the hiring review.
For people who weren't there
A hiring manager who missed the interview can read the summary and play the recording.
Record your next candidate screen with note1
Record once, and recruiters and hiring managers work from the same summary, recording and follow-ups.
Meeting notes for the video platforms your team already uses
Focused pages for each meeting platform, without making every page compete for every platform keyword.
Frequently Asked Questions
SupportCan note1 take AI interview notes on Google Meet, Teams and Zoom?
Yes. Invite note1 to the interview on any of the three, and you can read along as the transcript appears. Afterwards, search it for any answer the candidate gave.
Can I add candidate prep before the interview?
Yes. Put resume links, planned questions, must-haves and partial-match notes in Prep Notes. The interview summary draws on them.
Can note1 turn interview notes into a short summary for the hiring manager?
Yes. Choose the Job Interview summary style. The summary starts with a few lines on the candidate, then sections such as role fit, strengths, concerns and next steps. The hiring manager can read it even if they weren't in the call.
How can hiring managers share interview recordings with the team?
Set the meeting's visibility to Team, and anyone in your note1 workspace can play the recording and read the summary. To limit it to a few people, choose Private and add them as viewers. You can also post the recap to a Slack channel.
Can the whole recruiting team use the same interview notes template?
Anyone on your team can pick the built-in Interview or Job Interview summary style for a meeting. For a recurring interview slot, save the style for this and future meetings. note1 doesn't let you write your own custom template.
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