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You watch them code, live, in their browser. Afterwards you can replay the whole thing. If they paste an answer in, switch tabs to a chatbot, or if a finished function suddenly appears out of nowhere, it shows up on the timeline where you can go look at it.
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Take-homes are the obvious casualty. You send one out, it comes back clean, and you have no idea whether you learned anything about the person. Live calls are not much better if all you saw was a finished answer appear.
Good code used to be the signal. Now you cannot tell a strong engineer from someone with a chatbot open on the other screen.
On a team of eight, one bad hire is felt by everybody. Usually for months, because nobody wants to be the person who says it out loud.
Make someone install an IDE plugin and create an account before an interview and some of them just will not show up. The good ones have other offers.
Someone reading off a second screen can look great for 45 minutes. The giveaway is never the final code, it is the path there. People write a bit, get it wrong, rename things, fix a typo they made two minutes ago. Copied answers tend to show up all at once, already finished.
You do not have to take notes fast enough to remember what happened. It is all saved, and you can go back to any minute of it.
Scrub back through the session like a video, except it is the actual code being typed. Handy when two interviewers remember the same moment differently.
Pasting into the editor does not work, and each attempt is logged. Tab-aways and code arriving in unnaturally large chunks land on the timeline too. Click any flag to jump to it.
They click your link and they are in. No account, no install, nothing to download. It works on a locked-down work laptop, which matters more than you would think.
Every interview turns into something you can replay, with the flags marked on the timeline so you know where to look.
A paste attempt at 12:34, a tab away at 23:10. Click either one and you are watching that moment. You get to decide whether it meant anything, which is the point.
Everyone is scored against the same scorecard and lined up side by side, integrity flags in plain view. By the end of the list you know who moves forward.
Set up in a minute, run the interview your way, and review with your team. No training required.
Pick a question or a ready-made template, set the language and the time limit, then send one link to your candidate.
Watch them code in real time with private notes only you can see. Or let them take it on their own, fully recorded for later.
Scrub the replay, read the integrity timeline, compare candidates next to each other, and make the call together.
Run the interview, keep the recording, and build up a hiring history you can search and compare later.
Paste attempts, focus loss and ghost-typing laid over the replay, so you can watch the moment it happened.
Replay any interview from the first line to the last. It records itself, with nothing for you to set up.
Candidates open the room in the browser. No install, no account, no time lost before they start.
Your company name and colours on the candidate room, so candidates know exactly who they're meeting.
Every candidate in one place, scored against the same scorecard and lined up side by side.
Recordings live exactly as long as your policy allows, then they are deleted for good. Candidate data can be removed on request.
The engineers you interview this year pick the tools at their own company next year. A fair, quick interview leaves a good impression with exactly the people you want to impress.
A live session set up for you, Alex. Nothing to install.
Recording people is a responsibility. Meritan is honest with candidates and gives you the controls your legal team will ask for.
Candidates see exactly what is recorded and agree to it before they write a line.
Remove a candidate's data on request, on the retention schedule you set.
Decide how long recordings live. After that, they are gone for good.
Only your hiring team can open a session. Nothing is public and we do not share it.
Audit log, data export, retention controls and single sign-on (OIDC) are live on Business now. SAML, ATS integrations and data residency are still being built, so ask us where they are before you count on them.
Most tools in this space run into the thousands a year. Ours is $49 a month per interviewer, and you pay for interviewers, never for candidates. Not sure it fits? Email us and ask.
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Your candidate installs nothing, and you come out of it with a recording you can point at in the debrief. Five interviews a month are free, so you can test this on a real candidate without asking anyone for budget.