Aside for hiring interviews
Aside records interviews on your computer without a bot, keeps what you’re assessing in view during the call, and writes up each one so you can compare candidates on what they said.
Where interview notes go wrong
Interviewers lose information in two places: during the call, when typing notes pulls attention away from the candidate, and afterwards, when the write-up happens days later from memory.
Typing or listening
If you type everything, you miss the follow-up question. If you don’t, the scorecard gets filled in from impressions.
Covering the brief
You agreed to assess three things. Forty minutes later, one was never asked about, and the debrief has a gap nobody can fill.
Comparing candidates
By the fifth candidate, the first one’s answers have blurred, and your notes are long or short depending on how busy the day was.
How the call starts
A recording bot in the participant list is the first thing the candidate sees. Aside records your computer’s audio, so nothing joins. Tell the candidate you’re recording at the start, as many recording laws require.
How Aside helps with interview notes
Set what you’re assessing before the interview, see what’s still uncovered during it, and get a write-up with the full transcript behind it.
A plan for the interview
Make each thing you’re assessing a goal. Add background from the CV, and ready answers for what candidates ask: the salary band, the team, remote work, the next steps in the process.
The Hiring interview playbook
Start from the Hiring interview starter playbook: the flow, what to listen for and the questions to probe with. Fill in the [Capitalised brackets] with your role and company; the coach fills the [lowercase brackets] from the call.
During the interview
Goals are dots that fill in as you cover them, so you can see what’s left with time to ask it. Press ⌃⌥N or CtrlAltN to note a strong example in a few words. The note lands in the transcript at the moment you started typing, next to the candidate’s full answer.
After the interview
You get a summary, the goals you covered and next steps. Speaker names keep you and the candidate apart in the transcript, so when the debrief asks what exactly they said about leading a team, you can find it with ⌘K or Ctrl+K. A connected AI app such as Claude can read all the interviews for a role and compare them.
An example
A senior engineer interview on Teams
Your plan has three goals: system design depth, how they handle disagreement, and their notice period. Thirty minutes in, two dots have filled. The pill suggests asking about a time they disagreed with a technical decision. When the candidate asks about the salary band, your prepared answer appears. Afterwards, the write-up shows all three goals covered, with your notes where you typed them.
An illustration of how Aside works, not a customer story.
What Aside doesn’t do for hiring teams
Aside helps one interviewer run and record their own interviews. It isn’t an interview platform for a hiring team.
No ATS integration
Nothing goes to Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby or any other applicant tracker. Copy the summary into your scorecard.
No team scorecards
There are no shared interview kits, scorecards or panel views. Each interviewer has their own account. Shared plans and a team library are planned for a Team plan, which isn’t available yet.
No candidate scores
Aside summarises what was said against your goals. It doesn’t rate or rank candidates; the judgement is yours.
No video
Aside keeps audio and the transcript, not video.
Related
Hiring interview playbook
The flow, what to listen for and the questions to probe with.
Read the playbookAside for founders
Pitches, customer interviews and first calls with candidates.
Read moreBot notetakers vs recording on your computer
What changes for the person on the other side when no bot joins.
Read the guidePrivacy
What stays on your computer and what syncs to your account.
Read the policyQuestions
Can I record job interviews with Aside?
Yes, in any call app or in the room. Recording laws differ by place and many require everyone’s consent. Tell people at the start, for example with a line in the call’s chat. Check your company’s policy on recording interviews too.
Does Aside integrate with Greenhouse, Lever or Ashby?
No. Aside has no applicant tracker integration. Copy the summary into your scorecard, or ask a connected AI app to draft it from the interview.
Will the candidate see a bot in the call?
No. Aside records your microphone and your computer’s audio, so nothing joins the call.
Where is the interview audio stored?
On your computer. It is transcribed there too, unless you’ve added a language the on-device model doesn’t know (then all your calls are sent to a speech-to-text provider) or your computer is too slow to keep up. When you’re signed in, the text of the meeting syncs to your Aside account.