What it means
A video interview is a hiring workflow where candidates and interviewers communicate through live video, recorded responses, or asynchronous video prompts. It can support remote recruiting, early screening, panel interviews, scheduling flexibility, and structured feedback. Some products add AI summaries or analysis, but video format and AI evaluation are separate product capabilities.
Why buyers should care
Video interviews affect candidate experience, accessibility, privacy, reviewer consistency, and hiring-team coordination. A convenient interview format can still create risk if consent, recording retention, accommodations, or evaluation criteria are unclear. Buyers should treat video interviews as an interview process design question, not only a communication feature.
Evaluation checks
Review candidate instructions, device requirements, live and asynchronous options, accessibility support, recording consent, retention settings, interviewer permissions, scorecards, ATS integration, and audit history. If AI summarizes or analyzes recordings, confirm that outputs are reviewable, corrected when inaccurate, and not treated as final evidence without human judgment.
This glossary entry is buyer-oriented guidance, not legal, compliance, or financial advice.