Same questions for every student
The cell sets the track once. Volunteers stop inventing their own screen in the corridor.
Campus hiring
One first round for the whole batch
Placement week is a few hundred students and one rubric. InterviewRoom sends each eligible student the same spoken screen, up to 25 minutes, and the cell reads a transcript and a score. Audio is not stored. The panel still decides.
A placement cell does not have a staffing agency’s problem. It has one week, a few hundred students, and companies that want the same first screen done before their panel lands on campus. Faculty end up running unstructured calls. Students get a different conversation depending on who had time.
InterviewRoom gives every student on that drive the same spoken screen. You send a link. They talk for up to 25 minutes. You get a transcript and a score. Audio is not stored. The company panel, or the faculty shortlist, still decides who walks into the room. The product is also how a student practises before the drive, in a 10-minute session, including against company-style loops.
One rubric for the batch, not one rubric per volunteer
Write the screen the way the company actually hires. For a software role that might be a short coding problem plus an explanation. For a sales or support role it is a conversation: can they explain a policy, handle a pushback, and stay specific. The cell sets that once. Students get the link with the drive instructions. Before they start, they are told the score and the full transcript will be seen.
Faculty then read. The transcript is the point. A score sorts the pile enough to decide who to read first. It is a bad idea to send a company a spreadsheet of numbers and nothing else. Send the conversation, or sit with it in the room. Two students with a similar score can have failed for completely different reasons, and the company will ask.
Practice is the other use, and it should happen before drive week. A student can run a 10-minute practice session, aim it at a track and a seniority, attach a resume and a job description, or practise a company-style loop. The loops on the product are Meta, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, MongoDB, Walmart, Flipkart, and Razorpay. Those are practice targets. They are not a claim that those companies hire through us.
What the cell should not outsource to this
Eligibility, attendance at the pre-placement talk, and the offer letter stay with the cell and the company. InterviewRoom will not mark a student ineligible because of a backlog rule, and it should not. WorkClave is the attendance product if the problem is who showed up to the talk. Do not mix the two into one login and hope.
Do not use the hiring interview as a surprise. Students talk. If the disclosure is only inside the product and the WhatsApp broadcast from the cell says nothing, you will spend the day answering “was I recorded?” Audio is not stored. Put that in the message that carries the link.
A company that wants its own first round, for roles it hires all year, is the recruitment page. The cell’s problem is the batch and the week. The agency’s problem is the requisition that never closes. The product is the same. The rollout is not.
A practical week
Ten days out, freeze the questions with the company. Five days out, open practice and tell students it does not count. Drive week, send the real link only to students who cleared the cell’s own eligibility check. Read transcripts before the panel sits, not during it. After the drive, keep the transcript as the record of the screen. You do not have audio to hand over later, so do not promise a recording in the company’s process document.
Where a campus drive already runs
These marks name products people in this work already use. They are not Mecverse customers and they are not endorsements.
WhatsApp
How the cell actually sends the link and the instructions
Google
Calendar for the panel, Drive for the resumes
LinkedIn
Where students and companies already look at each other
Gmail
Where the company sends the shortlist back
What changes
Built around the work, not the buzzwords
Placement cells and companies that hire a batch in a single week
A transcript the company can read
The score is a way to order the reading. The words are what the panel should see.
Practice before the drive
Ten-minute practice sessions, including company-style loops, so the counted interview is not the student’s first time speaking to software.
The solution
The pieces that make the workflow work
Disclosure up front
Before the interview starts, the student is told the score and the full transcript will be seen.
No audio file
The record is the transcript and the score. Do not promise a company a recording.
A coding problem when the role needs one
One short problem can sit in the room. This is not a full online judge.
Eligibility stays with the cell
Backlogs, attendance at the talk, and the offer are not this product.
How we put it to work
01
Freeze the rubric
Agree the questions with the company before the link goes out.
02
Practise, then count
Open a practice window that does not count. Send the real link only to eligible students.
03
Read before the panel
Transcripts get read before the company sits down, not during the interview.
Other solutions
Recruitment & staffing
Run the first interview before a recruiter gets on a call
Education & training
Close the register without rebuilding it in a spreadsheet
Software & IT teams
One queue for the Slack message, the Sentry error, and the GitHub issue
Customer support
Answer the questions you already answer every day
Offices & distributed teams
Attendance, the broken laptop, and the request that died in chat
Clinics and practices
Answer the reception questions. Refuse the clinical ones.
Voice and AI products
Stop rewriting the codec layer for every provider
Computer maintenance
A maintenance contract that says what is included
Questions
Before you get started
Is this a different product from agency hiring?
No. It is InterviewRoom. The campus rollout is a batch and a week. An agency rollout is a role that stays open.
Are Meta, Google, and the other names customers?
No. They are practice tracks a student can aim a session at.
Can the company have the recording?
There is not one. Audio is not stored. The transcript and the score are the record.
Let’s find the right first step
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