Using an AI Assistant in a Microsoft Teams Interview

A Microsoft Teams invitation can leave you unsure which assistant setup to use. Here is how to choose based on where the call opens, whose speech each option captures, and where suggestions appear.

• Native desktop app: SubcueAI’s flagship app runs on macOS and Windows alongside desktop meeting clients, including Microsoft Teams. It captures system audio plus your microphone and displays assistance in a floating local overlay.
• Browser extension: For a Microsoft Teams call held in a Chrome or Edge tab, SubcueAI’s Side Panel provides live interview assistance. It captures the meeting tab’s audio, including the interviewer’s questions, but never your microphone. It does not transcribe your responses.
• Firefox extension: This build supports mock practice only. It does not provide live interview assistance.

The call’s location matters: tab audio capture cannot hear a separate Microsoft Teams desktop call. Neither SubcueAI surface sends a bot into the meeting or injects a content script into the meeting page.

Follow the setup tutorial for a walkthrough before testing your chosen surface.

Check the interview’s rules for AI assistance and transcription first. If permission is unclear, ask the recruiter before using live assistance. Then run a practice call with a partner using the same meeting client, browser, headset, and microphone you expect to use.

• Confirm where the call opened: Check whether Microsoft Teams is running in its desktop app or a browser tab. If a browser invitation opens the desktop client, the extension’s tab capture will not cover that call.
• Test desktop audio in both directions: Have your partner ask a question, then answer aloud. Confirm that SubcueAI receives both the call’s system audio and your microphone. If one side is missing, check the audio devices and capture permissions.
• Test the extension’s meeting tab: Confirm that your partner’s question reaches the assistant from the captured tab. Expect your own spoken answer to be absent because the extension never captures your microphone.
• Recheck after changes: Repeat the audio check if you switch headsets, microphones, tabs, or meeting clients.

Also test any screen sharing the interview requires. Ask your practice partner what they can actually see; the appearance of your own screen does not establish what the shared view contains.

Treat suggested answers as drafts to check against the question and your own experience. The useful checks depend on the interview format.

• Behavioral: Organize a real example into situation, task, action, and result. Remove suggested responsibilities, achievements, or outcomes that are not yours.
• Coding: Clarify inputs, constraints, and edge cases, then explain and test your solution. Audio capture alone does not establish that the assistant has read a shared editor or a problem displayed on screen.
• System design: State your workload assumptions before discussing storage, consistency, and failure handling. Check that each suggested trade-off addresses a requirement the interviewer actually gave.

For example, a backend engineer practicing a system-design interview in a Microsoft Teams browser tab explains why she chose a queue. The SubcueAI extension hears the practice interviewer’s follow-up question but does not capture her spoken explanation. She should not assume its next suggestion accounts for the reasoning she just gave.

For preparation outside the live call, explore mock interview practice.

No bot joins the call, so SubcueAI does not create an additional meeting participant. That does not make either surface universally undetectable or establish whether assistance is permitted.

• Screen sharing: Sharing an entire display can expose a visible overlay or Side Panel. Sharing a browser window can include its Side Panel too. Check the recipient’s view using the exact sharing setup you plan to use.
• Recording: A screen recording can preserve assistant UI within its capture area. A meeting recording can preserve that UI if it appears in the shared content. Do not assume all recording methods capture the same view.
• Proctored interviews: Proctoring can involve monitoring beyond what another meeting participant sees. The absence of a meeting bot provides no assurance against that monitoring.
• Company-managed devices: Device controls can restrict or monitor installed applications and browser extensions independently of Microsoft Teams.

Screen sharing, recording, proctoring, and company-managed devices are outside any claim of invisibility. Review Detectability & Privacy for more detail on these limits.