Announcing: Live Interview!

A New Way to Conduct Phone Screens

Lytmus
Lytmus
3 min readSep 27, 2017

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After months of hard work, we are excited to announce our newest product: Lytmus Live Interview

A Lay of the Land

Based on our research, we uncovered a few key areas where existing phone screen solutions limit your ability assess candidates.

A single-page web app is very restrictive to the types of roles you can assess. It is also very restraining in the kind of questions you can ask.

How would you assess your candidate’s:

  • Familiarity with back-end server conditions without access to an actual server?
  • Ability to debug a full-stack application without having access to the codebase, and services that support it?
  • Comfort level in provisioning a server without being able to install the necessary components?
  • The list goes on!

You deserve a better phone screen tool, so we made one for you!

More Collaborative. Louder Signal.

Lytmus Live Interview preserves the transactional nature of a phone interview but backs it with the full power of a computer. By utilizing the Lytmus Platform, your phone screens can now use real-world scenarios in a realistic development environment.

Easy to Use
Lytmus Live Interviews are very easy to set-up. You send the candidate a link, and you are ready to interview! The mouse and keyboard handoffs are also simple to negotiate. We also handle screen resolutions behind the scenes so you can focus on the conversation.

Configurable VM
You conduct each interview session on a configurable virtual machine. And you can set-up the environment identical to what a candidate would see on the job.

Specialized Job Roles
Live Interview allows you to collaborate on practical tasks for a wide variety of roles. These roles can now finally include candidates for QA, Ops, Backend, Data Science and more.

It’s Free!
Best of all, if you are a Lytmus customer, Live Interview is free! It also makes a great companion tool to our Take-Home product. Share code between the two to carry on the conversation.

Onward!

The phone screen stage is an excellent opportunity to gain a clearer understanding of who might ultimately join your team. You can’t afford the false negatives and false positives that result from using an overly restrictive platform!

The Live Interview tool adds much-needed accuracy to the phone screen interview process. You are now empowered to interview candidates in a more natural and realistic way.

For more details, check out Live Interview’s product page.

Customers can try Live Interview or get started with a Free Trial today.

Get in Touch

Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions or feedback. We love hearing from you.

Happy Hiring!
- The Lytmus Team

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