Searching Interview Transcripts
Resumes lie about skills. Interview transcripts don't. Stori's interview search lets you query the full text of every completed AI interview across your company — so you can find candidates who actually talked about Kubernetes, leadership at scale, or whatever else matters for the role you're filling.
What This Search Does
Every candidate who completes a Stori interview produces a structured transcript: every question, every answer, with timestamps and speaker labels. The Interviews search page indexes those transcripts and lets you query them by keyword.
You'll find it at Interviews in the top nav (the magnifying glass icon next to a video icon).
This is one of the things Stori does that traditional ATSs can't. Loxo, Greenhouse, JuiceBox — they all index resumes. None of them index what candidates actually said in an interview.
Running a Search
Type one or more keywords into the search bar. Stori finds every transcript entry containing any of your terms and ranks candidates by total match count — the candidate who mentioned your terms more times appears higher.
Examples:
kubernetes— find anyone who mentioned Kubernetes.leadership team— anyone who used either word; the person who used both more often ranks higher.scaled microservices— find candidates who specifically discussed scaling microservices.
Filters
Two filters narrow the search beyond keyword matches:
- Job — restrict results to candidates who applied to a specific job.
- Minimum interview score — set a threshold (60+, 70+, 80+, 90+) to exclude candidates who scored below it. Useful when you want to query only the candidates already worth your time.
Reading Results
Each result is a candidate card showing:
- Name, current title, company, and avatar.
- An interview score badge (if available).
- A match count ("3 matches") indicating how many transcript entries contain your terms.
- An expand control that reveals up to 10 transcript excerpts per candidate.
Each excerpt shows the speaker (Candidate or Interviewer), the exact mm:ss timestamp, and the matched text with your search terms highlighted in yellow.
Click View Profile on any card to jump to the candidate's full detail page where you can review their interview, traits, and notes in context.
When to Use This
A few patterns that work well:
- Skill triangulation — a candidate's resume claims they "led a team." Search the transcript to see whether they actually described a leadership story when asked.
- Reopening past pools — you closed a Senior Engineer req six months ago. Now you need someone who knows GraphQL. Search transcripts of past Senior Eng applicants for "graphql" and see who you already have.
- Backchannel for hiring managers — a hiring manager asks if any candidate has SaaS pricing experience. Search "pricing" against your interview pool and forward the matches.
- Quality control — search for filler ("um," "like") to spot interviews where candidates struggled, or for specific frameworks ("STAR," "situation task action") to see who answered structured behavioral questions well.