How Metaview is levelling the playing field in job interviews

We’ve all messed up job interviews, but what about the interviewers, can they mess up too? Andy Martin speaks to the founders of Metaview about using data to help people find their perfect job

Metaview has assembled a database of tens of thousands of interviews and can tell you exactly what is going wrong  (Getty/iStock)

How many times do you walk out of an interview thinking, I blew it? Rather like performing badly in an exam, everyone at one time or another (in my own case more than once) has given a disastrous interview. And you regret what might have been. But consider this: what about the people on the other side of the table, the ones who are doing the interviewing? What if they blow it too? Then you end up with a bad appointment and the company misses out on an opportunity to build its team. Now, fortunately, no one has to blow it any more – not if Metaview has anything to do with it, thanks to its co-founders, Siadhal Magos and Shahriar Tajbakhsh.

The whole point of Metaview (https://www.metaview.app/), founded in 2018, is to put an end to all those screw-ups. Tajbakhsh himself, now CTO, reckons he knows all about how to fail an interview. He left Iran for England aged 16 and ended up studying computer science at UCL. He liked the look of Palantir, who specialise in big data, and duly applied for a job. And was duly rejected. But he didn’t give up – he kept on applying, year after year, until finally, on the fifth time of trying, they finally surrendered and gave him the job. “I was just incompetent,” he says now. “But I managed to slip through. The hack is to work hard.”