What it is
Comprehensive sits alongside general, job-description-based, technical, resume-based, salary negotiation, and job-board intro screening as one of Intervieux's seven named interview types, each running its own dedicated conversational voice agent.
Where the general type sticks to standard opening questions and the technical type stays on domain reasoning, comprehensive is named and built to move across all of the ground those narrower types split apart: motivation and background, a behavioral situation or two, some technical reasoning, and questions that get at how a candidate would fit into a team and a culture.
How it works
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Choose style and personality
Set the tone with one of three interview styles and twelve interviewer personalities before the session starts. Since a comprehensive session covers more ground than a single-topic type, a milder personality helps sustain the full conversation, while a tougher one raises the difficulty across every area it touches.
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Start the session
The voice agent opens the conversation and moves through the full spread of question types over the course of the interview.
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Cover multiple areas in one sitting
Rather than staying on one topic, the conversation shifts across background, behavioral, technical, and cultural fit ground as it progresses.
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Answer and get follow-ups throughout
The AI follows up on each answer in real time, adjusting the next question to what was actually said.
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Get a full report across all five dimensions
The finished session scores Overall, Communication, Technical, Behavioral, and Cultural Fit, each with its own written reasoning.
One session, several areas
A candidate who only has time for a single practice run before a real interview gets more coverage out of a comprehensive session than any of the narrower types, since it's built to touch the ground that a general, technical, or resume-based interview would each handle separately.
Rehearsal for a full loop
Some real hiring processes run several separate interview rounds, one on background, one technical, one on team fit. A comprehensive session compresses a version of that spread into one sitting, which suits rehearsing for a day that will include more than one kind of question.
Still scored the same way
A comprehensive interview doesn't get a different scoring system for covering more ground. It's scored across the same five dimensions as every other type, with the same written reasoning and calibration guardrails against inflated scores.
Where the behavioral penalty matters most, and why the report says more
Because a comprehensive session is one of the interview types most likely to include a real behavioral question, the penalty for skipping STAR structure, situation, task, action, result, is worth watching here in particular.
An answer that jumps straight to an outcome without laying out the situation or the action taken loses points under the same penalty system that applies across Intervieux, and it shows up more often in a session built to include behavioral material than in one that stays purely technical.
Because the conversation moves across more ground overall, the report that follows also tends to say more about a candidate's full profile than a narrower session can, touching on communication style, technical grounding, how past situations get described, and how a candidate talks about fitting into a team, all in the same set of written reasoning.
Who it's for
Who it's for
Comprehensive interviews suit a candidate preparing for a real interview process that's likely to move across several kinds of questions, or anyone who wants one longer practice run instead of several shorter, narrower sessions. It's a reasonable choice right before a real interview day when time for practice is limited.
Frequently asked questions
What makes a comprehensive interview different from a general one?
General sticks to the standard round of opening questions common to most interviews. Comprehensive moves across a broader spread, background, behavioral, technical, and cultural fit ground, in one longer session.
Does a comprehensive interview take longer than the other types?
It's built to cover more ground than a narrower type like technical or resume-based, since it moves across several kinds of questions in one sitting rather than staying on one.
Is the scoring different for a comprehensive interview?
No. It's scored across the same five dimensions, Overall, Communication, Technical, Behavioral, and Cultural Fit, with the same written reasoning and calibration guardrails as every other interview type.
Should I do a comprehensive interview instead of the narrower types?
It depends on what's being prepared for. A comprehensive session suits rehearsing a full interview day, while a narrower type like technical or resume-based fits practicing one specific part of the process more closely.
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