A 20-minute mock of the first-round interview an AI interviewer runs: timed answers, plain follow-ups, no small talk, and questions built from your job description. Afterwards, a report on what the screener would have matched, missed and flagged.
Star Interview is not affiliated with any employer's interview vendor. Practice before the real one, never help during it. The real round is often on video; this practice is by voice.
Example practice question
Are you legally authorized to work in the United States?
20 minutes · seven questions · timed answers, on the clock
The 20-minute screen is the length most AI interviews run, 10 to 25 minutes. The 30-minute screen is the longer one some vendors run, with two questions on how you would do the work. The five-minute drill is one timed question and two follow-ups.
20 minutes
The first-round interview employers run with an AI interviewer: screening questions, your background, three questions built from the posting's requirements, a scenario and pay, each answer on the clock.
A report on what an AI screener would have matched, missed and flagged, with the time you used on every answer.
Practice the AI screen30 minutes
The longer screen some vendors run (micro1, Mercor, HackerRank): the 20-minute screen plus two questions on how you would do the work, each answer on the clock.
The same report, with reads on five requirements and your time on every answer.
Practice the 30-minute screen5 minutes
One requirement from your posting, ninety seconds on the clock, two follow-ups.
Your requirement read, your time use, one fix and the answer rewritten.
Drill one timed answerThe interviewer says it is an AI, that the interview is recorded and scored, how many questions there are and that most have a time limit. Then it asks if you are ready.
The two work-authorization questions, where you are and what pattern works, and when you could start. Plain answers, no story.
Sixty seconds: what you do now, how you got here, and why this role. Then two short follow-ups.
Each names a requirement from your job description, or one you picked, and asks for your experience with it. Ninety seconds on the clock, two follow-ups, and a cut at the limit if you run over.
Something the role would hand you. Two minutes: what you would do first and why, then two follow-ups.
Your salary expectations, with the posted range named if your posting shows one.
No questions for you to ask. The hiring team reviews the responses; the result never comes on the call.
AI interviewers build their questions from the posting and your resume, so yours will name the role’s own requirements. These are the shapes they take, in this order, with up to two follow-ups when an answer stays general. The 30-minute screen adds two questions on how you would do the work.
Whether each requirement the posting names was met, met in part or not shown, with the words that decided it.
One concrete time you did it, not a summary of years.
What you did, said as 'I'. A screener cannot credit 'we'.
The direct answer before the context. The AI matches; it does not infer.
Dates, titles and claims that agree with what you uploaded.
Authorization, location, start date and pay, as facts.
Pace, length and fillers. Never your accent, your face or your confidence.
Example feedback
Requirement 1 of 3, SQL: meets. Named a weekly pipeline she owned and a 30 percent runtime cut.
Requirement 2 of 3, stakeholder management: partly. Described the team's work; her own part came only after the follow-up.
Background answer cut at the limit; the point came in the last twenty seconds.
Readiness for the AI screening interview: nearly there.
An interview an employer runs with an AI interviewer instead of a person, usually for the first round. It asks the questions, listens, follows up, times your answers and scores the transcript, and a recruiter reads the result. In Greenhouse’s April 2026 survey, 63% of US job seekers said they had already had one.
The conversational kind, by voice: an AI interviewer that asks, follows up and moves on at the limit. Not the recorded one-way video, where a question appears with a countdown and nobody is there. Practice for that is coming; until then, the behavioral interview’s questions prepare you for it. Not the text chat of five to eight yes-or-no questions, which needs no rehearsal. See the behavioral interview.
No. It is an AI interviewer, like the one you will face, and it says so at the start. Star Interview is not affiliated with any employer’s interview vendor.
HireVue, Alex, Ribbon, Mercor, micro1’s Zara, Sapia and Paradox, among others. When you set up your practice, pick the one you were sent, and the green room notes what its interviews typically do.
Yes. The setup has an optional field for up to three. Leave it blank and they come from your job description, then the company brief, then the role itself.
Not here: this practice is by voice. The real one almost always needs your camera, often with a full-screen share, and it can flag a face out of frame or a second screen. Check both before you start.
No. The vendors prohibit it, detect it and flag it. Practice before the interview, and never use help during it.
Some employers offer one, and several vendors publish an opt-out. Illinois and New York City require employers to give notice, and other places are following. Asking is reasonable.
The interviewer thanks you and moves on at your next pause, as the real ones do, with no follow-up on that answer. Your report shows how much of each limit you used and where you were cut.
No. It scores what you said, how directly and how fully, and your pace and fillers. Never your accent, your face or your confidence. The main vendors dropped facial analysis too.
A recruiter pitches the company, talks through pay and answers your questions. An AI screener does none of that, and it times everything. Practice the phone screen when a person is calling you. Practice the recruiter phone screen.
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