Introduction to AI Interview Companion
Default Off (Configuration implementation required)
Who: Recruiters, Hiring Managers, Schedulers
Requirements:
Enabling the AI Interview Companion may require an additional cost. Contact your Account Executive or AI Growth Partner for assistance.
When scheduling, users must select a supported conferencing platform (Microsoft Teams, Zoom, or Google Meet) and attach a feedback form.
Interviewers must join authenticated within the same Zoom organization, and guest users (candidates) cannot see the companion's private messages.
To enable the nudge feature, navigate to Admin Console > Home > Product Setup > AI agents > AI Interview Companion Setup and turn on the Interview Companion, Response agent, and Nudge agent.
To use the nudge feature, the AI Interview Companion must be enabled
Note:
Real-time AI Interview Companion nudges currently supports only Zoom conferencing and the English language.
AI Interview Companion was previously released in the February 2026 monthly, and is now generally available.
What's new: The AI Interview Companion automates note-taking and provides real-time guidance to ensure comprehensive candidate evaluations. It joins scheduled video interviews to analyze the conversation, surface essential candidate insights directly in the meeting chat, and automatically pre-fills interviewer feedback forms. To support complex global hiring workflows, the system fully supports multiple languages, multiple interviewers, and multi-slot scheduling. Further, built-in compliance controls allow candidates to easily opt out of bot recording before the meeting.
How it works: When enabled, an AI bot joins the conference call to transcribe the conversation and automatically drafts individualized feedback forms for each interviewer to review and submit. During Zoom interviews, the agent also sends private, periodic chat nudges highlighting unanswered questions and allows interviewers to use quick commands to retrieve instant candidate insights without losing focus. To know more, read Understand and work with the AI Interview Companion.
