What it is
The general interview is one of Intervieux's seven AI interview types, and it's the one built to work without any outside input.
Where the job-description and resume-based types pull their questions from a document you supply, the general session runs on a fixed base of the questions candidates hear across almost any employer and almost any role: why this field, how you handled a conflict with a coworker, what you're looking for in your next job, how you prioritize when everything feels urgent.
A dedicated conversational voice agent runs the session in real time, listening to what's actually said and following up on it rather than reading down a script regardless of the answer.
How it works
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Pick a style and personality
Choose from three interview styles, formal, semi-formal, or friendly, and one of twelve interviewer personalities, from encouraging to challenging, before the session starts.
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Start the conversation
The voice agent opens the interview and asks the first question out loud, one of the standard opening questions common to most interviews. No job posting or resume upload is required to begin.
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Answer and get follow-ups
The AI listens to each answer and asks natural follow-up questions based on what was actually said, the way a person conducting the interview would.
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The session ends
The interview wraps up on its own once the standard set of background, motivation, and behavioral questions and follow-ups is covered.
- 5
Review the score
A report generates automatically with scores across all five dimensions, written reasoning for each, and any penalties that applied, giving a baseline reading to compare against once practice narrows to a specific job description or resume.
No document required
This is the one interview type on Intervieux where showing up with nothing works fine. A job-description interview needs a posting pasted in; a resume-based interview needs a resume on file. General has neither dependency, which makes it the fastest one to launch and the one that makes sense before either document exists.
Where it sits relative to the other six types
General interviews cover the ground that's common to almost every hiring conversation rather than the ground specific to one job or one candidate's history. That makes repeated general sessions useful for building comfort with the format itself, speaking answers out loud, structuring a response, handling a follow-up, before narrowing practice to a specific target with the job-description or resume-based types.
Same scoring, same follow-through
A general interview gets the same treatment as any other Intervieux interview once it's done: a five-dimension score with written reasoning behind each number, and the option to ask the report follow-up questions about the specific feedback it gave.
Where the penalty system actually shows up here
The classic closing moment of a general interview, an interviewer asking whether the candidate has any questions of their own, is one of the exact things Intervieux's grading checks for. Ending a session without asking anything back costs points under the same penalty system that also deducts for an abruptly ended interview or an unusually high filler-word ratio.
Calibration floors and caps sit underneath every number too, so a confident tone alone can't push a score higher than the actual answers support, and one weak stretch can't sink a score that held up everywhere else.
Who it's for
Who it's for
General interviews suit anyone early in a job search who hasn't settled on a specific posting yet, or anyone who wants a baseline read on their interview footing before narrowing in on a target role.
It's also a reasonable place to try a new interviewer personality or style for the first time, since there's no job-specific pressure riding on the questions, and a reasonable place to practice the habit of asking the interviewer something back before the call ends.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need a resume or job posting to start a general AI interview?
No. The general interview type is built to run without either. It asks a standard round of background, motivation, and behavioral questions that don't depend on a specific job or a candidate's work history.
How is a general interview different from a comprehensive one?
General covers the standard round of questions common to most interviews. Comprehensive is built to pull material across a broader spread, background, technical depth, behavioral history, and cultural fit, in one longer session.
Can I choose the interviewer's personality for a general interview?
Yes. General sessions let you pick from three interview styles and twelve interviewer personalities before starting, the same choice available for the other candidate-configured practice types.
Is a general AI interview scored the same way as the other types?
Yes. Every completed general interview gets a five-dimension score, Overall, Communication, Technical, Behavioral, and Cultural Fit, with written reasoning for each and calibration guardrails against inflated scores.
Related pages
Start a general AI interview
Practice the standard round of interview questions with no job description or resume required, then get a five-dimension score with written reasoning on how you did.