Scoring and auto-advance
How Tandem scores screening and AI interview answers, how question importance counts, and when auto-advance moves a candidate on.
How answers are scored
Each answer in Screen and AI Interview gets a score out of 5, with Tandem's reasoning beside it. You set how much each question counts by giving it an importance of High, Medium or Low in Edit stage. The stage score, out of 100, weighs the answers by that importance.
Read every score and reason on the candidate's Reports tab.
Related: Review transcripts and reports
How auto-advance works
Turn on Auto-advance for a stage and set its bar. Candidates who score at or above the bar move to the next stage. Everyone else waits in Needs review, with a reason.
To turn it on, you confirm that you're choosing AI-assisted screening. Suggested starting bars are 75 for Screen and 70 for AI Interview. Schedule never auto-advances.
What scores don't do
Tandem never rejects a candidate, whatever their score. Scores inform your decision; they don't make it. Only you move a candidate to Hired or Rejected.
Talent match
Talent match is a separate score out of 100 on the candidate's profile: how well they fit the role, with the evidence for each criterion.