Microsoft Teams Interviews

🎯 Should you use Microsoft Teams Interviews?

Buy if: Your company already runs on Microsoft 365 and needs zero-friction interview scheduling without asking IT for another vendor approval.

Skip if: You need purpose-built interview features like auto-reject flows, candidate texting, or anything beyond basic video calls with notes.

⚡ In practice

• ●Setup: 5 minutes if you have Teams, 45 minutes if you don't
• ●Scheduling: Works through Outlook, candidates click link, no login drama
• ●Recording interviews: One click, transcripts show up in OneDrive automatically

⚠️ Where it breaks

• ●No interview-specific workflow (you're manually copying scorecards into your ATS or a Word doc).
• ●Analytics means "watch the recording again" because there's no structured evaluation layer beyond what you build in Excel.

💸 Is it worth the money?

Free if your company pays for Microsoft 365 (most enterprises do). If you're buying Teams just for interviews, you're spending $12.50/user/month for a video tool when Spark Hire starts at $149/month with actual interview workflows.

🆚 If not this

• ●Spark Hire -> purpose-built interview platform with structured scorecards and candidate comparison tools
• ●Greenhouse -> if you want interview kits, scheduling automation, and scorecard enforcement baked into your ATS

🎯 Final verdict

Use it if you're already in the Microsoft ecosystem and hiring volume is low enough that manual scorecards don't hurt.