Snippets

A snippet is a short clip cut straight out of a call recording. Instead of telling a hiring manager what a candidate said, you show them the thirty seconds where they said it. That closes a gap that costs real time. A written summary of a candidate’s answer is always one degree removed from the answer itself, so the person reading it either trusts your judgment or repeats the question in a later stage. A clip removes the guesswork — and it takes a minute to make and seconds to watch.

Elyse shows you how to use Snippets.

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How teams use snippets

• Answering a hiring manager’s gating questions. The hiring manager gives you two or three must-ask questions before the screen. You ask them, clip the answers, and send the clips. The hiring manager judges fit immediately — instead of the candidate running two more interview stages before anyone discovers they missed a gate.
• A gut check across the interview panel. Anyone on the panel can see how a colleague’s interview actually went without reading a full transcript, which is much faster than reconstructing it in a debrief.
• Making a case with evidence. Illustrate a candidate’s strongest answer, or a genuine concern, in their own words — while keeping the rest of the conversation private.
• Calibrating interviewers. Build a set of clips showing good and weak answers to the same question, and use them to align a panel on what “good” sounds like.

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Create a new Snippet

Open a conversation and select the Snippets tab. You have three ways to create a snippet:

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Find a moment

Type what you’re after into the Find a moment box — for example, “where they talk about handling conflict” — and matching clips appear in under a second. Pick the one you want and save it. The search chooses a natural start and end for the clip (roughly 15 seconds to 5 minutes); you can edit the range later on the saved snippet.

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Automatic suggestions

Metaview surfaces suggested snippets for every conversation. They show in the Snippets tab until you start a search, and come back when you clear the search box.

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Select a range in the transcript

If you want to clip an exact passage yourself, click Create a Snippet, select the parts of the transcript you want included, and save.

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Titles and notes

When you save a snippet by any of these methods, Metaview writes a title and a short note for you. Anything you type into either field is kept as-is, so you can leave them blank for auto-written text, or write your own. Once saved, a short clip is created that you can share with others.

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Sharing snippets

After you have created a snippet, you can easily share it with specific individuals, with members of your team, or with external users (they don’t even need to have a Metaview account to view it). Once you have created your Snippet, click the 📤 (upload symbol) . You can then select the sharing options and link expiry (if desired). Select the Anyone with the link option if the trusted people you intend to share the Snippet with do not have a Metaview account. Once you have selected the setting, click Copy share link to copy your Snippet link. Sharing functionalities for snippets work very similarly to the sharing of call transcripts and notes, see Share and export for details. You can always immediately disable a shared snippet by changing the link access settings back to “Invite only”. You can also download the video of your created Snippets.