Startup one-way video interviews

Hire faster than companies 10x your size

Startups can't compete on employer brand or recruiter headcount. But you can compete on speed. Truffle handles first-round screening so you can move from application to offer before bigger companies finish scheduling their first call.

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Move faster than companies with 10x your resources

Enterprise companies take weeks to align stakeholders and schedule interviews. You can review candidates the same day they apply. When you're competing for the same talent, speed is the advantage that doesn't require budget—just better process.

Stop spending nights on phone screens

You're building product, closing deals, and somehow also hiring. Truffle lets candidates interview on their time while you focus on what only you can do. Review 30-second Candidate Shorts when you have 10 minutes—not 30-minute calls that blow up your calendar.

AI screening without enterprise pricing

Big companies pay tens of thousands for video interview platforms. Truffle gives you the same AI analysis, candidate insights, and efficiency gains for $99/month. No annual contracts or implementation projects.

Instant candidate insights

From job post to shortlist in hours, not days

Post the role, invite applicants to interview, and review AI-generated highlights instead of scheduling phone screens around your actual job. Truffle helps you prioritize the best candidates so you can spend your limited time on final interviews with people who are actually worth meeting.

Create the interview, start receiving candidates, get back to building

Paste your job description, add a few questions, and generate a shareable link. Five minutes from "we need to hire someone" to live interview. Send it to LinkedIn applicants, post it on your careers page, or blast it to your network. No implementation, no training, no waiting.

Candidate experience that works

Async interviews applicants actually complete

Good candidates are interviewing at 5 places. They'll ghost your phone screen for a company that moves faster. Truffle interviews take under 10 minutes, work on any device, and don't require scheduling. 85% completion rate because you're not asking candidates to clear their calendar—just find 10 minutes.

85% completion by candidates when invited to complete a one way interview.

Any device. Anywhere. Work on all major browsers and devices, no long required.

Under 10 minutes short enough to complete on a lunch break or between shifts.

24-hour turnaround. Most retail candidates complete within a day of receiving the invite.

Common questions about Truffle for startup hiring

We don't have a recruiting team—can we actually use this?

Truffle was also designed for founders and hiring managers who are doing recruiting on top of their actual job. Setup takes 5 minutes. Reviewing candidates takes 30 seconds each with Candidate Shorts. You don't need recruiting expertise or dedicated headcount—just a job description and 10 minutes to get started.

Will good candidates actually do a video interview?

Yes—85% completion rate. Strong candidates are busy interviewing at multiple companies. They appreciate not having to schedule another call. The candidates who won't spend 10 minutes on an async interview are self-selecting out of your process, which is actually useful signal.

Can we use different questions for different intern programs?

Absolutely. Create separate interviews for each program—marketing interns get questions about creativity and communication, engineering interns get questions about problem-solving and technical curiosity, sales interns get questions about persuasion and resilience. Each lives in one dashboard so you can manage all your programs from one place.

What if we only hire a few people per year?

Truffle works whether you're hiring 2 people or 20. At $99/month, it pays for itself if it saves you even a few hours of screening time. Most startups use it for their highest-volume roles or most critical hires—wherever the screening bottleneck is costing you time or causing you to miss good candidates.

How is this different from just doing phone screens ourselves?

Three ways: time, consistency, and speed. Phone screens require coordinating calendars, blocking 30 minutes per candidate, and repeating the same questions over and over. With Truffle, candidates interview on their own time, you review in 30 seconds, and AI helps evaluate every candidate consistently.

We're competing with FAANG for talent. Does this help?

This is exactly how you compete. You can't match their brand or compensation, but you can move 5x faster. When a candidate applies to you and Google on the same day, Google takes two weeks to schedule a phone screen. You can review their Truffle interview tonight and have them onsite by Friday. Speed is the startup advantage.

How do we share candidates with hiring managers across the company?

Share individual candidate profiles—including match %, AI summary, and Candidate Short video—via a simple link. Hiring managers can review without creating an account. This is especially useful when multiple teams are evaluating candidates from the same intern pool or when you need quick sign-off before extending offers.

Can our whole team review candidates?

Yes. Share individual candidate profiles—including match score, AI summary, and Candidate Short video—via a simple link. Your co-founder, hiring manager, or team lead can review without creating an account. This is especially useful when you need quick alignment before extending an offer.

Hire faster than companies 10x your size

Instant candidate insights

From job post to shortlist in hours, not days

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