Using an AI Assistant in a Microsoft Teams Interview

Microsoft Teams interviews work like other video calls: the interviewer speaks, you respond, and sometimes a coding or system-design question is shared on screen. An AI interview assistant sits beside Teams, not inside it.

SubcueAI is a native desktop app for macOS and Windows. It does not join the Teams meeting as a participant, and it does not install a Teams add-in or browser extension. Instead, it listens to system audio and your microphone locally, transcribes the conversation in real time, and shows suggested answers in a small overlay window on your own screen.

If you are new to the tool, the tutorial walks through first-time setup step by step.

For a Teams interview to be useful to an AI assistant, it has to hear both sides of the conversation. SubcueAI uses dual audio capture:

• Interviewer audio is captured from your system output (the audio Teams is playing to your speakers or headphones).
• Your audio is captured from your microphone.

Both streams are transcribed so the assistant understands the full back-and-forth, not just one speaker. You can read more about the mechanics on the How It Works topic page.

Microsoft Teams is commonly used for full interview loops, so you may see a mix of formats in one day:

• Behavioral — STAR-style prompts about past experience. The assistant can suggest structured talking points based on what the interviewer just asked.
• Coding — Often done in a shared editor or coding platform alongside Teams. The assistant can help reason about the problem, but you still write code yourself.
• System design — High-level architecture discussions where the assistant can surface trade-offs and components to consider.

For format-specific guidance, see the Interview Types topic.

No AI assistant is invisible in every situation. Before relying on one in a Teams interview, understand where it does not help:

• Screen sharing — If you share your full screen in Teams, anything visible (including the overlay) can be seen.
• Recorded or proctored interviews — Local screen recording on your machine, or a proctoring tool that captures your display, will capture whatever is on screen.
• Company-managed devices — If your employer controls the laptop, installing third-party software may be blocked or monitored.

For a fuller discussion, see Detectability & Privacy and the security page.