The Interviews tab is where HQ works your interviews for you. When a meeting gets scheduled with a video link, HQ prepares an interview kit, joins the call as a notetaker, and turns the conversation into an evidence-backed scorecard — quotes and all. You review the evidence, lock in your scores, and Chosen keeps the running report per job.

Scheduling itself lives on the Schedule tab. Interviews is about what happens inside and after the meeting — and when a position is selected in the sidebar, everything on the tab scopes to that job.

Turning on HQ

The first time you open Interviews, you'll see a Turn on Interview HQ card. One click on Turn on HQ sets everything up — it usually takes a few seconds, and the card shows honest progress the whole way. If setup hits a problem, the card says what went wrong and offers Try again. Viewers see the card too, with a note to ask an admin.

Once connected, the card disappears and the header pill reads Connected.

What HQ does, in order

Prep. As soon as a meeting with a link is on the books, HQ drafts a kit: a candidate brief, suggested questions, and a scoring rubric built from the job and the candidate's résumé. Find it via the Kit ready chip.
Join. A few minutes before the start time, HQ joins the meeting link as a participant and takes notes. A live pulse appears on the Interviews tab while it's in the room — Open HQ live gives the interviewer real-time captions, suggested follow-ups, and rubric coverage.
Scorecard. Shortly after the call ends, the scorecard lands under Awaiting review: evidence quotes from the transcript grouped by criterion. You pick a score for each criterion first — only then does HQ reveal its own independent take. That order is deliberate; it keeps your read honest.
Report. Submitted scorecards roll up into the job's report: every candidate against every criterion, round-over-round trends, and the would-hire tally.

Choosing which interviews HQ joins

Three levels of control, from broadest to narrowest:

Org-wide default — the settings card on the Interviews tab has an HQ joins new interviews automatically switch. It applies to meetings scheduled with a video link; off means HQ only joins interviews where someone turns it on explicitly.
When scheduling — the scheduling wizard has an HQ joins and takes notes switch, right under the meeting-link picker. It starts on your org default; flip it to override for just that batch of interviews. The review step confirms the choice before you send.
Per meeting — open any scheduled meeting from the Schedule calendar and flip the HQ toggle in the meeting details. Turning it off cancels the notetaker for that meeting only.

Seeing HQ on the calendar

The Schedule tab shows a small sparkle next to a candidate's name when HQ is set to join that interview. An amber sparkle means HQ needs attention for that meeting — open it to see what's wrong and retry.

Back on the Interviews tab, the Next up with HQ strip lists the next few interviews HQ is joining (or struggling with — those get a Fix button). The full calendar and the per-meeting controls live on Schedule; the strip links straight to it.

Reading the scorecard

Each criterion shows the evidence HQ pulled from the tape — supporting quotes, counter-evidence, and unresolved threads with timestamps. Score the criterion on the 1–5 anchors, and HQ's own score appears next to yours with an agree/adjacent/diverge marker. When every criterion is locked, submit with your hire recommendation. Submitted scorecards are permanent — they're the record the job report is built from, so there's no editing one into a better mood later.

When something looks stuck

Setup spinner runs long — after a minute the card offers a Retry; setup is safe to retry as often as needed.
Kit says "brewing" for more than a few minutes — it will finish or flag a failure on the chip; failures offer a retry via Fix.
No scorecard after the call — evidence drafting starts when the bot leaves the meeting and usually lands within a few minutes. The card shows the honest state the whole way.
Bot never joined — check the meeting had a valid link and the HQ toggle was on. The meeting details show the bot's last status.

Candidates and interviewers can always be told a notetaker is present — good practice, and in many places a legal requirement for recorded calls.