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We interview every fit applicant, pressure-test their CV claims, and tell you who to talk to — with evidence behind every name.

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Jobs/Backend / Full-stack Engineer
SM

Sara Mitchell

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Austin, TX· 5y exp
sara.mitchell@example.com +1 (512) 555 0142
CURRENT ROLE
Backend Engineer · Northwind
OVERVIEW

Drove a Postgres index redesign on an 8M-event/day pipeline — p99 from 800ms to 120ms. Walked through the bottleneck, the partial index she added, and the rollback plan in detail.

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How it works

How BestHire works.

Step 01

Paste your JD and publish in three clicks.

BestHire scores it for clarity and recommends fixes before any candidate sees it.

Senior frontend engineer · Web Platform team · 5+ years React/TypeScript · Berlin or remote · €95–125k
Step 02

Candidates upload a CV and answer screening questions.

Suitable candidates are taken to a 5-minute AI interview — questions generated in real-time from their own CV.

Apply · Acme Co.
Senior frontend engineer · Web Platform team · 5+ years React/TypeScript · Berlin or remote · €95–125k
PDF
sara_m_resume.pdf
184 KB · Uploaded
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Authorized to work remotely?Yes
Years of React experience?7+ years
Notice period?4 weeks
Step 03

Every claim on the CV is probed in the interview — outcomes, tools, ownership, dates.

BestHire evaluates each response and ranks candidates only on the claims they can back up.

Senior frontend engineer · Web Platform team · 5+ years React/TypeScript · Berlin or remote · €95–125k
Live interview · Sara M.
REC · 02:41 / 05:00
Probing CV claim
"Cut p99 latency 800ms → 120ms"
Question 3 of 5
Walk me through what you actually changed and how you measured the improvement.
Outcome · Tools · Ownership confirmedVerified
Step 04

A ranked shortlist of who's worth your time.

Pulled from 200 applicants without reading a single CV. Click any name to see the evidence behind their score.

Senior frontend engineer · Web Platform team · 5+ years React/TypeScript · Berlin or remote · €95–125k
Shortlist · Senior frontend engineer
12 shortlisted · 188 unranked
Tier 1Tier 2All
1SM
Sara M.
Senior frontend engineer
Tier 1Strong
2DK
Daniel K.
Senior frontend engineer
Tier 1Strong
3PR
Priya R.
Senior frontend engineer
Tier 2Partial
Hiring outside your expertise

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Without BestHire

Interview prep · Sara M. · Mon 14:32

  1. 1.Tell me about your Kubernetes experience? (too generic)
  2. 2.Why did you migrate? (she'll just say "scale")
  3. 3.Something about pods???

i don't actually know what to ask

You're a marketer. The CVs all read the same. Your questions don't separate the strong from the average.

With BestHire

We asked Sara · 2 of 6 questions shown

  1. Q1Walk me through how you scoped the migration and what your rollback plan was if pods failed.
  2. Q2Which workloads did you migrate first, and what was the reason for that order?

You ask · in your own call

  1. 1.Push on the Staff engineer's role — what was Sara's actual ownership?
  2. 2.Ask for the specific monitoring thresholds in the rollback plan.
  3. 3.Ask why payments was migrated last.

The AI handled depth in its interview. You walk in already three questions ahead.

You bring the judgment. We bring the domain depth.
Features

Everything you need to hire with evidence.

Most hiring tools rank candidates by surface signals. BestHire ranks them by what they can defend.

Strong JDs make strong shortlists.

Vague JDs produce vague shortlists. BestHire scores your JD, flags weak spots, and suggests fixes before applicants apply.

JD quality2 issues to fix
Vague experience requirement
Missing seniority signal
Add measurable outcomes

5-min interviews, generated per candidate.

Every applicant takes a 5-minute interview. Questions are generated in real-time from the JD and that candidate's specific CV claims.

BAI Interviewer
Sara M.REC
"You mention Kafka — what was your throughput in production?"Q3 / 5

Verified claims, not keywords.

Every CV claim is treated as a hypothesis. The interview tests it. Only what candidates can defend counts toward their score.

High-throughput Kafka in productionVerified
JD"5+ yrs running Kafka at scale (10k+ events/sec)"
CV"Owned Kafka pipeline at Acme — 28k events/sec sustained."
Confirmed in interview Q2 · 02:41

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Data we analyzeGDPR
Interview transcriptUsed
Facial expressionNever
Voice tone & accentNever
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Overall

6.4/ 10

Solid foundation, needs sharper must-haves.

Clarity8.0
Must-haves vs nice-to-haves4.5
Specificity6.0
Bias & inclusivity8.0
Compensation transparency3.0
Outcome orientation7.0
Pricing

Pricing.

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Why BestHire

Other tools rank what candidates wrote. We rank what they can back up.

A well-written resume scores well in a keyword filter. Whether the candidate can do the work is a different question.

Other tools BestHire
What gets scored Keywords on the page Claims the candidate can defend
Interview signal Inferred from voice tone or facial expression Transcript content only — never face or voice
Evidence Black-box ranking, no trail Exact CV line and interview quote per claim
Bias safeguards Score face, voice, and tone — opaque signals Transcript-only. No biometric scoring, ever.
Defensibility Can't explain why a candidate was cut A trail you can defend in writing
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