Purpose
A guided, business-first questionnaire captures how your organization hires. Your answers become the agreed configuration baseline, no technical knowledge required.The three setup areas
Foundation
Company structure and role expectations.
Operations
How evaluations run and are scored.
Governance
Access, privacy, compliance, and oversight.
Who should be in the room
Talent / Hiring Lead
Owns the hiring process and role definitions.
Hiring Managers
Define what strong performance looks like per role.
HR Operations
Own the pipeline and candidate communication.
Compliance / Legal / Privacy
Confirm frameworks, retention, and consent.
IT / Security
Own access, integrations, and data residency.
Executive Sponsor
Approves and signs off the baseline.
How answering works
1
Answer in business language
You describe how you hire; Exterview translates it into the platform. No
schemas, no code.
2
Use defaults where you're not ready
If a decision isn’t ready, Exterview applies sensible defaults you can
revisit later.
3
Review and sign off
Nothing is final until sign-off. Once signed, setup becomes the agreed
configuration baseline.
Material changes after sign-off should be reviewed and approved before use.
Changes that affect scoring re-baseline to a new version so results stay
reproducible.
FAQs
Do we need every answer ready before we start?
Do we need every answer ready before we start?
No. Where a decision isn’t ready, Exterview applies sensible defaults that you can revisit before sign-off.
Who signs off?
Who signs off?
Typically the executive sponsor, with input from talent, HR, compliance, and
IT. Sign-off makes the setup the agreed baseline.
What if we change our mind after sign-off?
What if we change our mind after sign-off?
Material changes go through review and approval. Scoring-affecting changes
re-baseline to a new version.
Is any of this technical?
Is any of this technical?
No. The questionnaire is answered in business language; Exterview handles the translation.
Related
Foundation Setup
Start defining your structure.
Go-Live Readiness
What to confirm before deploying.

