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Interview engineers without booking a call.

79 ready-made AI interviews that ask, follow up and score. Voice or typed, in 11 languages, and yours to send today.

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Example
  1. Interviewer: Tell me about a time you changed someone's mind at work. How did you go about it?

  2. Candidate: Our team wanted to rebuild the billing page from scratch, and I thought it was the wrong call, so we put together a plan to…

  3. Follow-up

    Interviewer: You said "we". What did you say yourself, and what finally changed their mind?

  4. Scored on

    • Ownership30%
    • Structure25%
    • Impact25%
    • Self-awareness20%

    Score, reasons and recording. Your team decides.

An example of how Behavioural interview (STAR) sounds. The real questions open when you use it.

30 interviews · page 1 of 3

  • Behavioural interview (STAR)

    Any role · Behavioural

    Finds out how someone has really handled setbacks, conflict and pressure, one true story at a time.

    Listens for

    • Ownership
    • Structure
    • Impact
    • Self-awareness
    Voice or typed

    8 of 17 questions · 35 min · All levels

  • First-round screen

    Any role · Screening

    Finds out why someone wants the role, what experience carries over, how they work and when they can start.

    Listens for

    • Motivation
    • Relevant experience
    • Ways of working
    • Clarity
    Voice or typed

    6 of 17 questions · 25 min · All levels

  • Leadership and ownership

    Any role · Behavioural

    Finds out whether a senior hire sets direction, takes hard calls and leads without needing a title.

    Listens for

    • Direction setting
    • Influence
    • Judgement
    • Accountability
    Voice or typed

    6 of 17 questions · 30 min · Senior to Staff

  • System design: backend

    Engineering · System design

    One notification service at burst scale, designed stage by stage to test estimates, scaling and failure.

    Listens for

    • Requirements and estimation
    • API and data design
    • Scale and throughput
    • Reliability
    • Trade-off judgement
    Voice or typed

    7 stages · 50 min · Senior to Staff

  • Sales discovery role-play

    Sales · Role-specific

    A live discovery call with a sceptical buyer that shows whether a seller listens, digs and earns a next step.

    Listens for

    • Opening and rapport
    • Discovery questioning
    • Quantifying value
    • Objection handling
    • Next step
    Voice

    7 stages · 25 min · All levels

  • People manager

    Any role · Behavioural

    Finds out how a manager hires, grows people, handles underperformance and keeps a team focused.

    Listens for

    • Developing people
    • Difficult conversations
    • Prioritisation
    • Follow-through
    Voice or typed

    6 of 19 questions · 30 min · Mid to Staff

  • Frontend engineering deep-dive

    Engineering · Technical

    Tests real frontend judgement: performance on weak devices, state, accessibility, rendering and debugging.

    Listens for

    • Performance
    • Architecture and state
    • Accessibility
    • Debugging
    • Trade-offs and communication
    Voice or typed

    5 of 16 questions · 25 min · Mid to Staff

  • How you like to work

    Any role · Culture and values

    Finds out the environment someone does their best work in and how they treat the people around them.

    Listens for

    • Self-knowledge
    • Collaboration
    • Candour
    • Handling ambiguity
    Voice or typed

    5 of 18 questions · 20 min · All levels

  • Product sense

    Product and design · Product

    Four product cases that show how a candidate finds the user problem, picks what to build and measures it.

    Listens for

    • User understanding
    • Problem framing and prioritisation
    • Solution quality
    • Metrics and judgement
    • Communication
    Voice or typed

    4 of 17 questions · 30 min · Mid to Staff

  • Product design critique

    Product and design · Role-specific

    Shows how a designer explains their work, critiques a flow, works with engineers and measures results.

    Listens for

    • Design reasoning
    • Critique
    • Collaboration
    • Outcomes and measurement
    • Communication
    Voice or typed

    5 of 19 questions · 25 min · Mid to Staff

  • DevOps and site reliability

    Engineering · Technical

    Tests how an engineer keeps systems reliable, ships changes safely and runs incidents.

    Listens for

    • Reliability engineering
    • Incident response
    • Automation and delivery
    • Cost and judgement
    Voice or typed

    7 of 18 questions · 35 min · Mid to Staff

  • Engineering manager

    Engineering · Behavioural

    Finds out how an engineering manager leads engineers, delivers work and makes hard technical calls.

    Listens for

    • People leadership
    • Delivery and prioritisation
    • Judgement and decisions
    • Communication and influence
    Voice or typed

    7 of 18 questions · 35 min · Senior to Staff

From link to shortlist, while you do something else.

  1. Step 1

    Use an interview

    One click copies it to your account. Swap a question, change the language or the format, or send it as it is.

  2. Step 2

    Send one link

    Candidates take it when it suits them, on any device. The interviewer asks, listens and follows up.

  3. Step 3

    Read the shortlist

    Every answer scored with the reasoning beside it, plus the recording. You decide who goes forward.

Questions, answered.

What employers ask before sending their first AI interview.

  • What happens when I use an interview?

    Winkle copies it into your account as your own interview, with every question, follow-up rule and scoring guide. Change anything you like, then send one link to as many candidates as you want.

  • Who asks the questions?

    An AI interviewer, out loud or in writing. It asks each question in order and, when an answer is vague, asks one follow-up about what the candidate actually said.

  • How are answers scored?

    Every answer is scored against the same guide, with the reasoning written beside the score. You get the recording or the written answers too, so any score can be checked.

  • Does the AI decide who gets hired?

    No. Scores are a recommendation. A person on your team reviews every candidate and makes every decision.

  • Can candidates answer in their own language?

    The interviewer can run the interview in any of 11 languages. Pick the language when you set it up.

  • Why can't I see the questions before I sign up?

    Because candidates could too. Every question opens the moment you use an interview, and you can read, change or replace any of them before it is sent. A candidate who has read the questions in advance is reciting, not answering.

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Name the role or paste the job description. Winkle drafts the questions, the follow-ups and the scoring guide, and you approve every one before it goes out.