Textio

Recruit and develop a high-performing team

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Recruit and develop a high-performing team

5.0•12 reviews•

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Textio is a leader in building tools that help high-growth companies recruit and coach high-performing teams. Our latest innovation is Lavalier, an interview intelligence tool that helps you make confident hiring decisions by turning interviews into comparable evidence about skills and ability to do the job. Founded in 2014, People leaders at companies like Bloomberg, Cisco, Johnson & Johnson, Samsung, and Spotify choose Textio to help them recruit and develop the top 1% of talent.

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What's great

I appreciate Textio's Lavalier as an interviewer because the hiring process feels so much more clear as I'm using it.

The candidate's info is right in front of me
I know exactly what I'm supposed to cover
I can focus on the candidate and worry less about taking perfect notes
Bookmarking moments for later is easy - and I can tie my feedback directly back to the candidate's words

This is super different from my past experiences of manual notes, scrambling for PDF resumes and prebriefs, and making sure I'm including quotes from the candidate real-time in my notes (which takes away from my ability to actually interview!)

What needs improvement

Right now it does a good job of covering the full candidate evaluation pipeline, but I'd like to see it cover more of what my ATS does.

For example:

Can it help me with the beginning of the funnel to narrow down applicants to people we actually want to interview?
Can it detect "fake" candidates and/or cheaters for me?

I'd love to see these features in the future

vs Alternatives

Metaview

Lavalier had real-time interview capabilities that guided me through the live experience, and great integration from that live experience through to writing great feedback after the interview was done. I didn't find a competitor that could do that.

Can Lavalier compare candidates on the same skills rubric?

Yes! That's the whole point of generating the role ahead of time directly in Lavalier - to be able to interview and then assess candidates based on that role.

How do teams adopt structured interviews without slowing hiring?

Lavalier helps a lot with this because it has a great role definition process that guides a hiring manager through one question at a time until the role and requirements are super clear, then auto-generates structure including questions for each stage.

It then uses that structure systemically throughout the platform to guide how interviews are performed, both real-time at the time of the interview but also afterward for leaving feedback and comparing candidates.

What happens if transcription quality is poor or noisy?

So far the transcription quality has been good, but if part of the transcription is poor at least the rest is captured and I can add notes to the poor part of the transcription to fill in the data! It sure beats trying to manually type out the whole thing.

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What's great

What stood out right away was how quickly I could spin up a role with the requirements already structured. In most hiring processes, a lot of time gets lost in meetings and email threads just trying to align on what the role actually needs. This made that part much faster.

I also liked the flexibility around scheduling interviews. Being able to coordinate interviews not just for myself but for others in the loop makes the process much easier to manage.

The AI summaries after the interviews were also solid. What I appreciated most is that each insight links directly back to the exact point in the transcript. That makes it easy to verify what was said or quickly review the surrounding context without digging through the entire conversation.

What needs improvement

The candidate compare view is useful for spotting patterns across candidates and interviews. That said, it feels like a missed opportunity that the interviewer’s hiring recommendation isn’t surfaced there. It would be much more powerful if you could quickly see each interviewer’s rating or recommendation alongside the AI-generated insights.

Can Lavalier compare candidates on the same skills rubric?

Yes, candidate compare was focused sed on the skills and responsibilities defined in the role.

How does Textio ensure structured, comparable interview feedback?

The same set of questions for every candidate in the same stage regardless of who was conducting the interview.

How well does Textio work in non-English roles or markets?

Lavalier has capability to switch languages. I didn't use this function, but it looks like it would work well.

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What's great

What I liked:

The onboarding video is the right length and does a great job showing how the product works. The chat interface is really intuitive — it understood what I was looking for and made it easy to set up a role without feeling like I was filling out a form. I tried it with a PM role and the initial competency options were solid. When I asked for more, the next set it generated were even closer to what I'd actually want, which tells me the AI is really paying attention to context and getting smarter as you interact with it. The whole experience of building out a role feels natural and conversational in a way that most HR tools absolutely do not. The interface is clean, the functionality makes sense, and I could see this being something my team picks up quickly without needing a training session.

What needs improvement

What I'd love to see next:

It would be helpful if the experience level options had a wider range as a starting point depending on the seniority of the role. And I'm curious whether there's a way to build in something around team and culture fit — in my experience, skills alone don't always predict success if someone's working style doesn't match how the organization operates. Would be powerful if there was a way to surface that.

Really fun to explore — looking forward to using this more!

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What's great

I appreciate Textio's Lavalier as an interviewer because the hiring process feels so much more clear as I'm using it.

The candidate's info is right in front of me
I know exactly what I'm supposed to cover
I can focus on the candidate and worry less about taking perfect notes
Bookmarking moments for later is easy - and I can tie my feedback directly back to the candidate's words

What needs improvement

Right now it does a good job of covering the full candidate evaluation pipeline, but I'd like to see it cover more of what my ATS does.

For example:

Can it help me with the beginning of the funnel to narrow down applicants to people we actually want to interview?
Can it detect "fake" candidates and/or cheaters for me?

I'd love to see these features in the future

vs Alternatives

Metaview

Can Lavalier compare candidates on the same skills rubric?

Yes! That's the whole point of generating the role ahead of time directly in Lavalier - to be able to interview and then assess candidates based on that role.

How do teams adopt structured interviews without slowing hiring?

What happens if transcription quality is poor or noisy?

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Reliability

Value for money

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What's great

I also liked the flexibility around scheduling interviews. Being able to coordinate interviews not just for myself but for others in the loop makes the process much easier to manage.

What needs improvement

Can Lavalier compare candidates on the same skills rubric?

Yes, candidate compare was focused sed on the skills and responsibilities defined in the role.

How does Textio ensure structured, comparable interview feedback?

The same set of questions for every candidate in the same stage regardless of who was conducting the interview.

How well does Textio work in non-English roles or markets?

Lavalier has capability to switch languages. I didn't use this function, but it looks like it would work well.

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Really fun to explore — looking forward to using this more!

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