In my recent conversations with talent leaders and team builders, a clear trend has emerged: high-performing teams are reacting to the current market conditions by re-focusing on quality and ensuring every hire counts. As teams develop action plans to adapt their hiring processes to this new reality, one of their considerations is often whether it’s worth bringing in an Interview Intelligence platform to complement internal programs and processes. For anyone weighing how to affect step-change impact on their quality of hire, I wanted to share how Metaview can help.

Whether you already have structure and training in place for your interviewers, or you're just starting to get more deliberate about this crucial part of your process (if so, check out our playbook on how to do it), Metaview can be a powerful tool to bring increased visibility, consistency, and quality to your process, and the all important hires you make as a result of it. Each organization’s challenges and goals are unique, but here are a few common scenarios where teams turn to Metaview:

  • You’ve grown a lot in the past, and now new people are hiring new people. It’s hard to find time to make sure they are calibrated, rigorous, and fair.
  • You have a growing sense that important hiring decisions are being made based on scrappy notes, memory, or — worst of all — bias.
  • You’ve realized that traditional interviewer training isn’t proven to be effective, and is often inconsistently applied.
  • You have no visibility into the quality of your process, or whether interviewers are drifting over time, and therefore no ability to make educated improvements to the process.
  • You’re struggling to maintain your core culture as new hires are made in different geographies and to keep interviewers calibrated across office locations and departments.

Focusing on quality doesn’t just prevent expensive mis-hires—it’s of existential importance to your culture and continued growth. Anduril’s Head of Software Recruiting, Scott Nelson, gives a powerful take on the role quality plays in preserving culture and trust as an organization grows:

“You have to remember that part of the reason people join your organization is because they want to be around people they respect, that they can learn from — it’s iron sharpens iron.

If your hiring managers aren’t calibrated, they’re more likely to bring in people that don’t fit that profile. Mis-hires are expensive, sure — but there’s also a cost on your culture and your team. Because when you consistently hire poor quality employees, you’re saying ‘this is what we value, and this is the type of person that’s representative of our organization’.

And when your employees start to feel like that’s changing, or the bar’s being held differently for different hires, then that culture you worked hard to build will tear right down the middle. Your best performers will lose trust in you, and they’ll leave. You have to know how to scale that trust — it’s a crucial part of hiring.”

How Metaview improves quality of hire

Metaview is built to help you calibrate all of your interviewers to a common bar of excellence, while automating the painful administrative burden that often accompanies traditional processes. We do this through a number of powerful features: the ability to capture and replay what really happened in interviews, Shadow Paths interviewer training, and insights for ongoing improvement.

1. Review the game tape

The ability to playback interview recordings is a game changer when it comes to keeping quality high. When there’s conflicting opinions on a candidate or disagreement about how they rank on a certain skill, you can review what actually happened, even if you weren’t present yourself. Visibility into what’s really going on in interviews can also be a powerful tool to ensure interviewers are delivering a strong candidate experience and gathering the right signal. Tally’s VP of Engineering, Jan Chong, shares how Metaview playbacks help her team keep quality in check:

“Before, when we had concerns about interview quality, we would need to shadow the next few interviews, which is disruptive. With Metaview, I love that I can go into interview recordings and take a look.”
Metaview records and transcribes interviews so you can capture, replay, and review what really happened. 

2. Interviewer shadowing based on your highest-quality interviews

Interviewer shadowing is one the most effective ways to gain confidence in the consistency and quality of your interviews. With a traditional showing program, there’s lots of manual scheduling and spreadsheet tracking that needs to happen to keep the process moving along. In this model, it can be difficult to track where trainees stand in the process, and there’s little visibility into what happens once they’ve graduated. But the biggest problem of all is that you’re rolling the dice when it comes to the quality of the live interviews trainees shadow. Former Head of Recruiting at Pure Storage, Angela Miller, summarizes the challenges of scaling a robust interviewer training program, which ultimately prompted them to bring in Metaview to right the course:

“Our training process had a number of stages that we had to manage manually, including our basic ‘Interviewer Training 101’, shadowing, and mock interviews with a trained mentor. When we were small, this process worked just fine. But as we grew, the system became stressed. Our recruiting team was spending a lot of time manually scheduling in training, and tracking training outcomes was still highly manual and administrative-heavy.

We got to a point where we stressed the system so much that it broke. We didn’t have enough interviewer bandwidth, but it was taking six months for a trainee to get through training on one training track. We were coordinating interviews with candidates as a first priority, which meant that training was our second priority — and it started to fall through the cracks.”


Metaview takes shadowing to the next level by automating the process and ensuring trainees only learn from the very best. In a Shadow Path with Metaview, you choose best-in-class examples for each interview loop and use those recordings to create a training module for new interviewers. Trainees are then automatically enrolled in these Shadow Paths and watch the recordings on their own time, removing the unnecessary complexities of manual scheduling. Recruiting teams have full visibility into where a trainee stands in the process.

With Metaview's Shadow Paths, you can automate interviewer training by creating virtual training loops made up of real examples from your best interviewers.

3. Deepen learning with feedback loops

The learning doesn’t stop once the recordings have been viewed. Trainees are also asked to write mock scorecards on the interviews they watched. That feedback is then compared against actual feedback that seasoned interviewers provided to make sure trainees are learning to calibrate properly. The final step in our Shadow Paths is a reverse shadow where the trainee runs a real interview of their own, shadowed by a veteran interviewer who provides comments and feedback.

Another way we close the feedback loops in interviewer training is by enabling comments on interview recordings. New interviewers can ask more experienced colleagues specific questions on an interview they are shadowing, or seasoned interviewers can leave their own tips and insights—all to enable deeper, interactive learning based on individual needs.

4. Provide ongoing self-reflection and coaching

Establishing and maintaining a culture of high-quality interviewing has to be a continuous effort. That’s why Metaview provides interviewers ongoing opportunities for self-reflection and coaching. After every interview, interviewers can see how key metrics like number of questions asked, candidate talk time, and interview duration compare with the norms for interviews of the same type at your company. So if they’re trending outside of the typical ranges, interviewers can reflect on whether there’s an opportunity to do things differently next time. Metaview also provides automated coaching so that interviewers receive regular feedback on their actual interviews, with actionable tips for elements to improve. Catawiki’s Head of Talent Acquisition, James Lesner, shares the impact Metaview has had on their interviewing:

“Not only has Metaview enabled us to measure the interviewing consistency we wanted to achieve, it has also really helped us to scale our onboarding of new interviewers and get them up to speed very quickly so that they’re competent and can represent Catawiki in the right way.”
Metaview surfaces objective consistency and quality metrics to help interviewers self reflect.

Especially in the current market, investing in quality of hire is all but a necessity. Without Interview Intelligence, it’s near impossible to have the level of visibility and insight you need to identify areas of improvement and have a real impact on quality. If you’re ready to run more consistent, high-quality interviews, we’d love to help. And for an unbiased look at how our solution stacks up against alternatives, check out this comprehensive rundown from Select Software Reviews.

Want to run higher-quality, more consistent interviews? Metaview can help.