A secure alternative to Zoom, Google Meet and Teams for interviews

Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams are excellent meeting tools, and most teams already pay for one of them. That is why they became the default for remote interviews. But an interview is not a meeting. In a meeting, everyone is on the same side. In an interview, you need to know that the answers you hear are the candidate’s own, and you may need to show that later.

This page explains what general meeting apps can and can’t do for interviews, and when a dedicated interview platform such as Eagle Vision is the better fit.

What meeting apps were built for, and what interviews need

Meeting apps are designed to make collaboration easy. Participants can share any window, keep other apps open, paste links into chat and step away whenever they like. That freedom is a feature in a team meeting.

An interview needs almost the opposite:

• A controlled screen, so the candidate works inside the interview and not alongside other tools.
• Visibility when they step out, so you know if they switched tabs or pasted something in.
• A shared place to write and run code, for technical roles.
• A recording you can trust, with the code and any flags kept together.
• A consistent setup for every candidate, so results are comparable and fair.

What Zoom, Meet and Teams can’t see

When a candidate shares their screen in a meeting app, you see only what they choose to share. You don’t see other monitors, other windows, a phone beside the laptop, or apps designed to stay out of the screen share.

That last point matters more each year. Real-time AI interview copilots listen to the call and show suggested answers in a window built to be invisible to screen sharing. Final Round AI, for example, says its copilot windows are “hidden from screen sharing and recording in Zoom, Google Meet, Teams and more”. Wikipedia describes Cluely’s overlay in similar terms.

So, can Zoom detect cheating? Not on its own. Based on their public documentation as of October 2026, none of the three apps has a built-in feature that locks a participant into fullscreen or flags tab switches and pastes. Some teams add a separate detection tool on top of the call. Others move interviews to a platform built for them.

To be fair about recording: all three apps can record, depending on the plan and the organisation’s settings. Recording a call is useful, but it captures the call, not what happened outside the shared window.

For the warning signs to watch for on any platform, see our guide on how to tell if a candidate is using AI.

Meeting apps and Eagle Vision side by side

	Zoom	Google Meet	Microsoft Teams	Eagle Vision
Video call	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Recording	Computer recording on free and paid accounts; cloud recording on Pro, Business and Enterprise	On eligible paid Workspace editions and Google One plans with 2 TB or more; not on free personal accounts	Yes, where the organisation’s recording policy allows it	Every interview recorded, with the video call, the code pad, the flags and the score
Fullscreen lockdown for the candidate	Not built in	Not built in	Not built in	Yes, on every interview
Live flags for leaving fullscreen, tab switches, cursor to another screen, and copy, cut and paste	Not built in	Not built in	Not built in	Yes, shown to the interviewer as they happen
Integrity score out of 100	Not built in	Not built in	Not built in	Yes, updated live during the interview
Shared code pad with real output	Not built in	Not built in	Not built in	Yes
Timed assessments sent by link	Not built in	Not built in	Not built in	Yes: coding questions and multiple-choice sections, with camera, a recording of the attempt and an integrity score

Meeting-app details are taken from Zoom, Google and Microsoft documentation, checked in October 2026. Third-party apps and add-ons can extend all three, so check what your organisation already has.

How a locked-down interview runs

1. Schedule and invite. Pick the role, the interviewer and the time slot. The candidate gets a link. There is nothing to install and no candidate login: they open the link in a desktop browser (Chrome, Edge or Firefox recommended), and a quick device check confirms that the camera, microphone, fullscreen support and video connection work. That is a real difference from detection tools that need an agent installed on the candidate’s computer.
2. Interview in lockdown. You talk face to face on camera while the candidate’s screen stays locked to the interview in fullscreen. You write and run code together on the shared code pad, and you see a live flag the moment they leave fullscreen, switch tabs, move the cursor to another screen, or copy, cut or paste text. Copying inside the shared code pad or chat isn’t flagged. An integrity score starts at 100 and drops by a fixed amount with each flag, so you can see at a glance how the session is going.
3. Review the proof. Afterwards, open the recording and the report. Every flag is timestamped, so you can click one and jump to that moment in the recording.

Each team member has one of three roles: Interviewer, Admin or Owner. An audit log records the actions that matter, including scheduling, updating, cancelling, starting and ending interviews, feedback, role changes, enabling or disabling accounts, ownership changes, purchases, assessments created or cancelled, job roles and settings changes. That helps when several people interview for the same role.

One honest limit: Eagle Vision flags behaviour, not specific apps. A copilot on a second device, or one that never makes the candidate leave the interview screen, may not raise a flag. Good interview questions still matter. Our guide on how to detect Cluely in interviews covers the questions that copilots handle badly.

See the full feature list on the live interviews page.

Pricing: pay per minute in INR

There is no per-seat subscription. Eagle Vision uses prepaid minute packs priced in rupees, and the credits never expire.

Pack	Minutes	Price (+ 18% GST)	Per minute
Starter	360	₹1,794	about ₹4.98
Team	1,200	₹4,380	₹3.65
Enterprise	2,700	₹8,505	₹3.15

Live interviews are charged on the minutes actually used. Minutes are reserved when you schedule, any unused minutes come back when the interview ends, and you get a full refund if nobody joins. So a 60-minute interview costs at most about ₹189 to ₹299 + GST, depending on the pack. Assessments use the same balance at half their scheduled time. Packs stack, and every pack includes unlimited employee logins.

New organisations get 90 free minutes when they sign up, with no card needed. That is enough for one 90-minute interview or three 60-minute assessments. See pricing for details.

When a meeting app is still the right choice

Not every conversation needs lockdown. A first chat with a recruiter, a culture conversation with the founder or a sell call with a senior candidate can stay on Zoom, Meet or Teams. Use a locked-down interview where the answers carry weight: technical rounds, skills checks and any round where a hire depends on what the candidate can do alone.