How do Firstview and Fireflies compare on screening, interviews, assessments and hiring workflows? This comparison looks at where they overlap, where they differ, and which needs each is built to serve.
Written by Ece Badak · Fact-checked by Barkin Kutucu
Updated · 25 primary sources reviewed
Published by Firstview. Based on the sources and scope described below.
From job post to final decision, with evidence
Meeting notes for every team, interviews included
Both platforms take notes on your team's interviews and can run an AI screening call. The difference is where they start: Firstview starts at the role and its criteria, while Fireflies starts at the meeting.
You want the CV, the AI interview and the decision judged against one set of criteria. Firstview scores every CV against weights you set, interviews candidates live in English, Turkish, German, Spanish or French, and backs each verdict with the candidate's own words. It works with or without an ATS.
Your team wants notes and summaries from every meeting, not only interviews, on Zoom, Google Meet or Teams, synced to Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby or BambooHR.
These 16 rows compare hiring tasks, not whole platforms. A Full rating means the vendor offers the feature, not that every plan includes it; the pricing section shows what each plan covers.
| Capability | Firstview | Fireflies |
|---|---|---|
| Screen | ||
| Recruiter-facing weighted CV scoring | ||
| AI splitting of combined-PDF CV uploads | ||
| Contextual CV evaluation beyond keyword matching | ||
| JD-based criteria / rubric generation | ||
| Interview | ||
| Real-time conversational AI interview | ||
| Adaptive follow-up questions | ||
| AI interview designer / custom questions | ||
| Assess | ||
| Technical / coding evaluation | ||
| Soft-skill / competency evaluation | ||
| Decide | ||
| Criterion-level evidence & score rationale | ||
| Structured candidate report | ||
| Human interview co-pilot / note-taker | ||
| Operate | ||
| Native customizable hiring pipeline without a separate ATS | ||
| Calendar integration / scheduling | ||
| Candidate communication automation | ||
| Hiring analytics dashboard |
Full and Partial describe what each vendor's cited public sources show; every source carries its audit date in the source list. Not published means the reviewed sources did not establish the capability; it does not mean the capability is absent.
The scorecard is the index. These five sections explain what the differences mean in a hiring workflow.
Firstview scores every CV against the weights you set
Firstview scores every CV against weighted criteria you set, checks dealbreakers first, and shows the evidence behind each score. It suggests criteria from your job description, and a combined PDF of CVs splits into individual candidates automatically.
Fireflies' recruiting AI Skills work on interview transcripts, and its Screening Interview Agent writes questions for roles pulled from your careers page. Its public sources do not show CV scoring, CV evaluation against the role, criteria generated from a job description, or the splitting of a combined PDF.
Fireflies' recruiting features start once a conversation has happened. If the CV is your first filter, Firstview scores it against the weights you set and carries the same criteria into the interview.
Firstview interviews each candidate live, in their own language, with follow-up questions
Tell me about a project that changed direction.
Customer feedback challenged our initial plan, so we reworked the approach.
How did you decide which feedback to act on?
Firstview runs live, two-way voice interviews in the browser, in English, Turkish, German, Spanish or French. It asks follow-up questions based on each answer, answers the candidate's own questions about the role, and suggests role-specific questions your team can edit. The criteria that scored the CV carry into the interview.
Fireflies' Voice Agents run live, two-way voice calls in the browser from a shared link, with a Screening Interview Agent template. They follow up based on answers, and your team writes or autofills the questions, instructions and knowledge base. Fireflies lists 32+ voice languages in its help centre and 70+ on its product page; confirm the ones you need.
Both hold a real conversation, so judge it on your own role: in a demo, Firstview interviews for one of your own open roles.
Firstview gives technical roles an in-depth interview and a technical report
Firstview evaluates competencies and role-specific knowledge inside the interview itself, using 30+ competency frameworks. Technical roles get an in-depth conversational interview and a detailed technical report instead of a coding test.
Fireflies' recruiting AI Skills assess culture fit, sentiment and expertise from interview transcripts, and Fireflies says they can return a competency breakdown for a technical round. Its public sources do not show coding exercises or a technical report.
Both assess skills in the conversation rather than in separate tests. For technical roles, Firstview adds an in-depth technical interview and a detailed technical report.
Firstview judges every candidate on one set of criteria, from CV to decision
“I brought the two teams together to agree on the priorities.”Example candidate answer
Aligned teams around shared priorities
Each Firstview verdict links to the candidate's answer and the moment they gave it, and unclear cases go to a person, never to an automatic rejection. Firstview Notetaker also joins your team's own interviews on Zoom, Google Meet and Teams and files the notes on the candidate, so AI and human interviews end up on one record.
Fireflies' notetaker joins interviews on Zoom, Google Meet, Teams and 10+ other platforms and syncs summaries and notes to the candidate in your ATS. Its AI Skills describe evaluations mapped to your rubric, with timestamped answers, and every Voice Agent call returns a recording, transcript, summary and scorecard.
Both tie evaluations to what the candidate said and take notes on your team's interviews. Firstview judges the CV, the AI interview and those notes against one set of criteria; if you need notes for every kind of meeting, Fireflies is built for that.
Firstview runs hiring without a separate ATS; Fireflies plugs into yours
Firstview includes the pipeline board, calendar scheduling, email and WhatsApp messages, and hiring analytics, so a team can run hiring without a separate ATS.
Fireflies syncs interview notes and summaries to Greenhouse, in beta, and to Lever, Ashby and BambooHR, and its AI Skills draft follow-up emails to candidates. Its analytics track conversations and team talk time. Its public sources do not show a hiring pipeline, interview scheduling or a hiring funnel dashboard.
Firstview runs the whole flow on its own. If a large ATS is staying, Fireflies' ATS sync is built for that.
Firstview builds its rules into how it evaluates: it never analyzes faces, video is never part of the evaluation, and a person makes every hiring decision. Fireflies publishes SOC 2 Type II compliance on every plan, with HIPAA on Enterprise.
Firstview does not publish a price list; it sells subscription plans and starts with a pilot on one of your own open roles. Fireflies publishes per-seat plans, from a free tier to Enterprise, with AI credits for Voice Agents and AI Skills, so compare the total for your interviewers plus the credits your screening calls use.
Decide by how your team wants to run hiring.
Yes, for hiring. Firstview covers hiring in one product, from the job post to the final decision: CV scoring against weights you set, live AI interviews, a notetaker for your team's interviews and its own pipeline. Fireflies is a meeting assistant for every team that syncs interview notes to your ATS and adds voice screening agents.
Yes. Both run two-way voice interviews in the browser with follow-up questions. Firstview's run in English, Turkish, German, Spanish or French against the criteria from the CV screen. Fireflies' Voice Agents run from a shared link and use 1 AI credit per minute of call.
Both. Fireflies' notetaker joins Zoom, Google Meet, Teams and 10+ other platforms, transcribes in 100+ languages and syncs notes to your ATS. Firstview Notetaker joins Zoom, Google Meet and Teams, fills your notes or scorecard template and files it on the same record as the AI interview.
With Firstview, no: it includes the pipeline, scheduling and candidate messages. Fireflies syncs interview notes to Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby or BambooHR; its public sources do not show a hiring pipeline of its own.
Firstview processes data in Türkiye, the EU and the US. Fireflies stores and processes data in the US by default; Enterprise private storage can keep it in the EU, with processing still in the US.
Firstview does not publish a price list; it sells subscription plans and starts with a pilot on one of your own open roles. Fireflies publishes per-seat plans, from a free tier to Enterprise, with AI credits for Voice Agents and AI Skills, so compare the total for your interviewers plus the credits your screening calls use.
No. Firstview never analyzes faces, and video is never part of the evaluation. Integrity rules apply while the interview runs: the whole screen is shared, the camera stays on and virtual cameras are blocked.
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