How we score
Every interview at JobRush — single, panel, or trial — is scored on the same 5-axis rubric, modeled on the behavioral criteria used by Google, Amazon, and Meta hiring committees. The same axes appear in your live coach chips and your final report card, so the score tells one consistent story.
Why these 5 axes
- Few enough that you can hold them all in your head while answering.
- Many enough that an answer can be weak on one axis (e.g. ownership) and strong on another (technical depth) — the whole point of axis-based scoring vs. one number.
- Real-interview aligned. Maps cleanly to how published interview rubrics from FAANG-tier companies grade candidates. No invented criteria.
Communication
Weight 20%Clear, confident, concise.
Crisp delivery, zero filler, natural pacing, confident tone, no rambling.
Understandable but uneven — some filler, occasional drift, mixed confidence.
Hard to follow, dominated by 'um/like', no clear sentences.
Technical Depth
Weight 30%Correctness + tradeoffs.
Names systems precisely, discusses tradeoffs, anticipates edge cases, shows hands-on signal.
Surface-level correctness, generic vocabulary, no tradeoff discussion.
Wrong, hand-wavy, or avoids the technical content of the question.
Structured Thinking
Weight 20%STAR shape, no rambling.
Crisp arc — context, action, result, learning. Easy to follow without backtracking.
Recognizable shape but loose — jumps around, recovers.
Pure rambling. No discernible structure.
Ownership & Impact
Weight 20%I, not we — with metrics.
Clearly owned the work, named scope, gave concrete metrics ('cut p99 from 240ms to 45ms').
Some ownership signal but mostly 'we'; vague outcomes.
Entirely 'we'/passive. No outcomes. Could be describing a team they observed.
Role Fit
Weight 10%Right altitude for the level.
Examples and altitude match the level (senior shows scope/influence, junior shows craft).
Adjacent but mismatched — strong examples from a different altitude.
Off-topic or wrong altitude entirely.
How the verdict works
- Live coach: each answer scored 0–10 on every axis by a fast turn-by-turn evaluator. You see the chips beneath the coach bubble during the interview.
- Composite: the per-axis scores are combined using the weights above into one 0–10 number you see in the corner of your report.
- Coaching threshold: the coach interjects when your composite falls below 7 or any single axis drops below 5. Otherwise it stays quiet with a short acknowledgment so you can keep flowing.
- End-of-session grader: a slower, more thorough pass re-scores the whole transcript — it can reward recovery from a weak start that turn-by-turn scoring would miss. The report card shows the grader's verdict, not the turn average.
- Panel mode: each panelist evaluates from their own lens (behavioral, technical, leadership), then we map their scores onto the same 5 axes so the report card looks identical to a single-interviewer report.
The rubric is canonical — defined in code, replayed against a frozen golden set on every change. If the rubric drifts, our test suite catches it before the change ships.