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Interview as a service
Hand your early technical interviews to an outside provider and get scorecards back. Here is how the human and AI models compare, what they cost, and who each one suits.
Interview as a service (IaaS) means an outside provider runs your technical interviews against your rubric and returns a scorecard for each candidate. Traditional IaaS uses freelance or full-time interview engineers. AI interview as a service, like Cointervue, uses conversational AI to run the same L1/L2 interview on demand, at a per-interview price, with no interviewer scheduling.
How interview as a service works
You share the job description and the bar for the role. The provider builds an interview plan, invites candidates, runs the interview, and sends back a structured report. Your recruiters and engineers only meet candidates who cleared that bar.
Most teams use IaaS for the first one or two technical rounds. These are the rounds with the most candidates and the least need for a hiring manager in the room.
- Define the role: skills, seniority, coding languages, and whether DSA or system design is in scope.
- Invite candidates: a link from your ATS or recruiter, or a bulk upload.
- Interview: a human interviewer on a video call, or a conversational AI interviewer available 24/7.
- Review: a scorecard with rubric scores, code, transcript notes, and a hire/no-hire recommendation.
Human IaaS vs AI interview as a service
Human providers keep a bench of interviewers and match one to each candidate. AI providers run the interview in software. The table shows where each model is stronger.
| Human interview as a service | AI interview as a service (Cointervue) | |
|---|---|---|
| Who runs the interview | A matched freelance or staff interviewer | Conversational AI with adaptive follow-ups |
| Availability | Booked slots, subject to interviewer calendars | On demand, 24/7, any time zone |
| Turnaround | Report after the interviewer writes it up | Scorecard within 60 seconds of the interview ending |
| Consistency | Depends on the individual interviewer | Same JD rubric for every candidate |
| Capacity | Limited by bench size | Many interviews in parallel |
| Typical price | Quoted per interview; usually far higher than software | ₹199 per interview pay as you go (from $5 in US/EU) |
| Best for | Senior and niche roles, final rounds | High-volume L1/L2 screens |
Who uses interview as a service
Staffing firms use it to hit client SLAs when a mandate brings in more candidates than their interviewer panel can see in a week. One Cointervue pilot delivery lead at a Gurgaon IT staffing firm sent a shortlist of 6 in 4 business days instead of the usual 9–11.
Tech companies use it to take L1 screens off senior engineers. A 45-minute screen also costs prep, write-up, and context-switching time; the cost of technical interviews guide walks through that math.
Why Cointervue offers AI interview as a service
Cointervue is built by Codash, which has run human Interview-as-a-Service since 2021. The AI product applies that rubric and interviewing experience to conversational interviews that include live coding, DSA, system design, and behavioral and culture-fit questions in one session. Humans still make the final hiring decision.
That session is an agentic interview. The AI interviewer asks the next question from the candidate’s answer and writes a scorecard within 60 seconds.
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