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Berri MasterMind is the best AI interview platform for first-round technical interviews. See why with the proof supporting the claim.
Berri MasterMind is the best AI interview platform for recruitment teams to automate their first-round (L1) technical interviews. It conducts structured interviews that include live coding rounds to evaluate the candidate’s technical skills, while keeping the scoring criteria consistent across candidates.
Most vendors offering AI interview platforms claim they are the best. In reality, most of these platforms either break down at scale, have AI scoring that is unexplainable, or hurt the candidate experience.
But Berri MasterMind’s evaluations are reliable and explainable at scale, and candidate experience is part of the design itself.
This blog covers what an AI interview platform does and why first-round technical interviews need one. It then dives into how Berri MasterMind works, why it is the best platform for automating your L1 interviews (with proof), and the things to consider before choosing one.
What Does an AI Interview Platform Do in a First-Round Technical Interview?
An AI interview platform automatically conducts the full first-round interview without a panel. It asks questions, evaluates the candidate’s answers, asks follow-up questions in real time, and shares a scorecard that helps hiring managers make informed hiring decisions.
When companies search for the best AI interview platform, they see different products on the first page of Google, but not all of them assess candidates in the same way.
For instance, some platforms give the candidate coding problems to solve and score the code against test cases. But that doesn’t tell you the candidate is really good at coding. The candidate might have used AI to write the code. Gartner found that 29% of candidates who use AI in their applications use it to write answers to assessment questions.
Some other platforms are async video interview tools. They display a set of questions for which candidates have to record their answers. In this scenario, a vague answer is not followed up, and a recruiter or panel still has to watch the recordings end to end to make hiring decisions.
But when we say Berri MasterMind is the best AI interview platform, this is why: it solves all these drawbacks. It conducts two-way interviews that adapt to the candidate’s responses, and, instead of only checking the output, it assesses how well the code is written. And the interviews are monitored from start to end to flag fraud attempts in real time.
Why Do First-Round Technical Interviews Need an AI Interview Platform?
Automating first-round technical interviews with an AI interview platform is needed because conducting L1 interviewing at scale slows down hiring, scoring varies from one interviewer to another, and some candidates now use AI or fake identities to get through interviews. Employers in India and around the world are increasingly using AI in hiring and reporting positive results.
1. Interviews slow down hiring
SHRM’s 2025 benchmark report says screening and interviewing take 8 to 9 days each, on average. If companies do interviews at this pace, then they might lose candidates to companies who do interviews faster using an AI interview platform. SHRM also reports that more than two in three organizations struggled to fill open positions in 2026.
2. Structured interviews predict job performance better than other selection methods
A 2022 meta-analysis in the Journal of Applied Psychology by Sackett and colleagues ranked structured interviews first, with a mean validity of .42 (validity is how closely a method’s scores match later job performance, on a scale of 0 to 1). An AI interviewer doing a structured interview uses the same rubric for every candidate. But human-led interviews often rely on gut feelings.
3. Some candidates admit to interview fraud
Candidate fraud is again increasing in remote interviews. Gartner found that 6% of candidates admitted to interview fraud, either posing as someone else or having someone else pose as them. Berri MasterMind interviews are proctored to flag fraud attempts as they happen.
4. Indian employers report faster hiring with AI
In ManpowerGroup’s 2026 survey of 3,055 employers in India, 57% said their time-to-hire is faster than in 2025, and the reason is linked largely to the adoption of AI in recruitment.
Delays, inconsistent scoring and candidate fraud all show up in the first round. An AI interview platform like Berri MasterMind solves all these challenges.
How Does Berri MasterMind Run a First-Round Technical Interview?
Berri MasterMind runs the first-round technical interview automatically without a panelist. It starts with setup checks, moves into an adaptive conversation and a live coding round, and produces a scorecard after the interview. Candidates can take an interview at any hour, 24/7.
1. Setup checks
Before the interview starts, the candidate tests their camera and microphone and completes an initial verification. We recommend an internet speed of at least 8 Mbps. If something goes wrong during the interview, built-in chat support is available.
2. Adaptive, in-depth, and consistent evaluation
The interview starts with MasterMind analyzing the job description and the candidate’s resume for projects, skills, experience, and overall context to ask tailored questions. It follows up on candidate answers in real time and probes in depth to simultaneously assess technical, communication and behavioral traits.
Interviews are supported in 140+ languages, including English, Spanish, French and Hindi, so candidates can attend interviews in the language they are comfortable with.
3. Live coding round
For technical roles such as software engineer, candidates undergo a real-time coding challenge in a built-in coding environment that supports assessments in 50+ programming languages. MasterMind checks the logic and thought process behind the code, including how efficiently it is written, not only the output.
4. Scoring and scorecard
The evaluations are bias-free and candidate recommendations are purely based on performance. The scorecard lists marks for technical, behavioral and communication skills, and the report includes integrity checks. Each score also comes with its reasoning, so your hiring manager can see how it was reached.
MasterMind does not infer emotion, personality or mood from a candidate’s face or voice. Your team can override any result and make the final hiring decision.
How Does Berri MasterMind Prevent Fraud Attempts?
Berri MasterMind interviews are proctored in real time by our candidate fraud detection software, Berri Proctor. It runs silently in the background, without distracting the candidates.
Berri Proctor verifies the candidate’s identity through face and voice biometric authentication. It uses 3D liveness detection to confirm a real person is on camera. It also checks for eye gaze, second screens, tab switching, off-camera help, mobile phones, smart glasses, and AI usage.
If fraud attempts happen, it flags that moment and alerts the recruitment team with a timestamped screenshot as evidence for review.
Proof That Berri MasterMind Is the Best AI Interview Platform
We call Berri MasterMind the best AI interview platform, and these numbers are our proof.
1. Scale
MasterMind has conducted 20,000+ L1 video interviews in a single day, without compromising on evaluation accuracy or candidate experience. This makes it the natural solution for companies that hire at scale, such as enterprise teams, campus interviews, or GCCs.
2. Skills coverage
MasterMind has conducted 200,000+ interviews across 2,000+ skills. A broad skill library means one platform can interview for most of the roles your team opens, so you don’t need a separate tool or interviewer pool for each technology.
3. Scoring accuracy
MasterMind’s L1 interview scoring and human panel L2 interview scoring have a correlation of over 92% (independently validated). So your L2 panelists only spend their valuable time on assessing top talent who are a good fit for the job.
4. Candidate experience
MasterMind interviews sound like talking to a real interviewer. It is so natural that candidates have a seamless interview experience. That’s why candidates rate their satisfaction with Berribot interviews 4.7/5.
Besides these numbers, customers using MasterMind have seen 2x higher interview show-up rates and the proctoring agent’s accuracy is 99.99%, effectively preventing fraud attempts. And today, 8 of the world’s 12 largest IT services companies use Berribot for their hiring needs.
How to Choose an AI Interview Platform for Technical Hiring
Consider the following checks for automating your L1 interviews with an AI-powered interview platform. Ask vendors to show all of this on one of your job roles.
1. Interview format
Check whether the interviews are structured and the AI interviewer evaluates in depth by asking follow-up questions. Some tools only play fixed questions and record the answers.
2. Coding assessment
Check whether candidates code live in a built-in editor, in the programming languages your team works with. Also check whether the platform evaluates the logic and efficiency of the code, not only whether the output is correct.
3. Scoring
Check whether every candidate for a role is scored on the same criteria, whether AI scores are explainable, and whether your team can override a result.
4. Fraud prevention
Confirm whether the platform has multiple fraud detection layers that run throughout the interview. The platform should not flag normal human behavior and should detect nuanced cheating and flag it with evidence such as a timestamped screenshot.
5. Scoring accuracy
Ask how closely the AI’s scores match those of experienced human interviewers, and how the vendor measured it. Our result is in the numbers above, and every vendor should be able to share theirs.
6. Security and compliance
Check whether the platform holds certifications such as SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001, and follows data protection laws such as GDPR and CCPA/CPRA. Candidate data should be encrypted in transit and at rest, and face and voice data should be used only with the candidate’s consent (check Berribot’s Trust Center).
7. Candidate experience
Check that the platform supports the languages your candidates speak, runs setup checks before the interview, and offers help if something fails mid-interview.
A platform that meets all these checks will save your recruitment team’s time in the first round without lowering the quality of your shortlist. Berri MasterMind does that.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. Which AI interview platform is best for interviews?
Berri MasterMind is the best AI interview platform for interviews. It talks with candidates the way an interviewer would, asks follow-up questions based on what they say, and gives a coding challenge for technical roles. Every candidate is evaluated on the same criteria.
2. Is an AI interview safe?
Yes, when the platform is fair, explainable and leaves the final decision to a person. In Berri MasterMind, every candidate for a role is evaluated on the same criteria, and scored with the reasoning behind it. MasterMind also does not try to read emotion, personality or mood from a candidate’s face or voice to score them.
See Berri MasterMind on One of Your Roles
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