What Is Interviews.chat?

Interviews.chat is an AI interview assistant built for the person being interviewed. It listens to a live interview, transcribes it in real time, and generates suggested answers while the conversation is still going. Its published feature set covers both technical and behavioral questions, and it can shape suggestions in different formats, including a STAR-style structure for behavioral answers.

The product sits in the same category as SubcueAI: a real-time assistant for the candidate, not a screening tool for employers. That distinction is worth checking before you buy anything in this space, because several products with similar names sell an "interview copilot" that assists the interviewer instead. BarRaiser is one of them. If you are working through the category, the comparisons topic hub collects the rest of it.

You are probably less interested in the feature list than in one question: where does this thing actually live while you are on a call? This section answers that, and explains why the delivery model drives most of the practical differences between assistants. In short, Interviews.chat offers several delivery options, and each one carries a different visibility profile.

Its documentation describes a web version that needs no installation, an optional Chrome extension, and a desktop app. It works alongside virtual meeting platforms including Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams, rather than joining the call as a bot participant. For phone interviews, it suggests running the web version on a second device. On data handling, it states that audio and video are processed in real time and not stored.

The visibility consequence is direct. Anything running inside a browser tab or window is part of that browser, so if you share that window, or share your entire screen, it goes out with the share. A separate desktop app changes the picture but does not erase it: screen sharing, recording, and proctored environments still capture whatever is on the display you are sharing.

SubcueAI is a native desktop application for macOS and Windows. There is no meeting bot, and the live assistant is not a browser plugin injected into the meeting page; it runs outside the browser as a floating local overlay. A separate Chrome extension exists for mock interview practice only, never for a live interview.

Consider a backend engineer interviewing for a senior role at a payments company. She is on Google Meet in Chrome and shares that Chrome window to walk through a diagram. An assistant living in the browser is inside the surface being shared. A local overlay outside the browser is not, though the moment she shares her whole screen instead of one window, the distinction disappears.

Aaron Cao, founder of SubcueAI, built the product around dual audio capture for this reason: capturing the interviewer's audio and the candidate's microphone locally means the assistant never has to join the meeting to hear the conversation. The how it works hub covers the capture and transcription path in detail.

Both tools solve the same problem, and the honest differences are narrow. Interviews.chat gives you a zero-install path: open a browser tab and go, which is useful on a machine where you cannot install software. SubcueAI asks you to install a desktop app, and gives you an overlay that is not part of the browser you are sharing.

• You cannot install software on the machine you interview from: a web-based tool is the only option that works.
• You expect to share a browser window during the interview: an assistant running outside the browser is the more careful choice.
• The interview is proctored or fully recorded: neither tool is appropriate, and no assistant is.

Pricing in this category moves often, and both products meter usage in credits rather than flat seats, so read each vendor's current page instead of a third-party summary. SubcueAI's plans and credit costs are on the pricing page.