Agentic AI is having its moment. Across industries, teams are experimenting with AI that doesn’t just respond—it takes initiative, adapts in real time, and carries out complex tasks start-to-finish. In hiring, this shift is especially powerful. As applicant volumes surge, recruiters are searching for ways to evaluate more candidates without sacrificing quality or speed.

Enter CodeSignal’s Interviewer Agents, the latest evolution of our award-winning AI Interviewer. These AI-powered hiring partners don’t just ask a set list of questions. They run an entire interview from start to finish—digging deeper when a candidate shares a promising detail, pivoting based on responses, and delivering a structured scorecard directly into your ATS. That means recruiters can focus on high-impact conversations instead of juggling calendars and repetitive screening calls.

What “agentic AI” really means

Think of agentic AI as a trusted colleague who doesn’t need you to spell out every step. You give them a goal, and they own the execution. They know the relevant context, plan out next steps, and adapt as the situation changes.

For hiring, this AI capability is a game-changer. A CodeSignal Interviewer Agent can connect with a candidate, ask role-specific follow-up questions, probe for examples that reveal deeper skills, and translate the whole conversation into an objective, evidence-based evaluation. It’s proactive, context-aware, and efficient—three things most hiring teams need right now to free up their capacity.

Meet our agents

Every Interviewer Agent is trained to excel in a specific role and seniority level. Here are a few of the agents we’re offering at launch:

• Need to hire sales reps who can help you make this quarter’s quota? Matt Thompson is your high-volume sales interviewer, laser-focused on communication, persuasion, and resilience. 
• Looking for a senior-level product manager? Simone Clarke specializes in strategic thinking, stakeholder management, and leadership potential.
• Hiring for your next finance guru? Nina Santos digs deeper into candidates’ skills and experience in accounting, budgeting, and forecasting.

You pick the agent that matches your role, and they handle everything else—from questions tailored to your role and organization, to nuanced follow-ups—scoring responses against pre-defined rubrics so every candidate is evaluated fairly and consistently.

Why teams are turning to Interviewer Agents

• Scale without limits: Run as many interviews as you need without adding headcount or burning out your team.
• Consistency and fairness: Every candidate is assessed against the same standards, reducing bias and improving prediction accuracy.
• Human in the loop: The agent makes recommendations, but your hiring team decides—keeping human oversight where it belongs.
• Deeper insights: Adaptive questioning keeps candidates engaged and surfaces skills that static interviews miss (think: one-way video “interviews”).
• Faster results: Scorecards land in your ATS seconds after an interview wraps.
• Anytime, anywhere: Candidates can interview when it works for them, cutting days off time-to-hire.

Early adopters of our Interviewer Agents are already seeing impressive results—cutting time-to-fill by up to 40% and freeing hundreds of recruiter hours each quarter. That’s time that can be reinvested into more impactful TA work, like engaging with late-stage candidates and strategic workforce planning.

Solve the interview bottleneck

Interviews have always been one of the biggest bottlenecks in hiring—especially for technical and other high-demand roles. With Interviewer Agents, companies can confidently screen more candidates, faster, without sacrificing quality. High-potential candidates that might have slipped through the cracks now get their shot, and every applicant gets a professional, consistent interview experience.

The future of hiring is here

Agentic AI isn’t about replacing people—it’s about empowering them to do more work that matters. By taking over the repetitive, resource-heavy parts of early-stage interviews, CodeSignal’s Interviewer Agents give recruiters the bandwidth to focus on what they do best: building relationships and making smart hiring decisions.

If you’re ready to see how agentic interviewing can transform your hiring process, book a demo with a CodeSignal expert today. 

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