Hirebar lets a forum of senior engineers score every candidate independently, on one template, and turns their scores into a decision you can explain, plus a brief the hiring manager can act on.
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Not because anyone is careless. Because of how the process is usually shaped.
They are also the person under the most pressure to fill the seat. The bar moves with the backlog.
The second opinion is formed after hearing the first. Two interviews become one, with extra steps.
"Good vibes, strong on backend, a bit junior on design." Six months later nobody can say why the hire was made.
A standing forum of gatekeepers, two of them on every candidate, scoring on the same template.
Every metric gets a 1–10, a verdict and a few lines of evidence. Until you submit, nobody else's scores exist for you, and the database, not just the page, enforces it.
The dashboard puts every gatekeeper's score for every metric on one chart. A gap of three points or more is flagged. That is the conversation the forum needs to have; the average would have hidden it.
Once the quorum has submitted, written rules turn scores and verdicts into Hire, Hire with reservations, No hire, or "talk first". An admin records the final call with a rationale, and the audit log keeps it.
Everything the forum needs, nothing it has to maintain.
Other interviewers' scores stay invisible until you submit. Enforced in the database.
Any metric where gatekeepers differ by 3+ points is marked. Averages don't hide it.
Verdicts plus band produce the recommendation. Same rules for every candidate, visible on the card.
Build-on strengths, 90-day focus goals, warnings and next steps, generated from the scores.
Three pages: summary and decision, the full scoring table, the per-metric chart with notes.
See which gatekeepers grade high or low against the forum, before it skews a decision.
Scores are weight × average ÷ 10, categories roll up by weight, and the recommendation follows this table. No hidden model.
| Gatekeeper verdicts | Overall band | Recommendation |
|---|---|---|
| All positive | High | Hire |
| All positive | Mid, nothing below the bar | Hire, with reservations |
| All positive | Low, or a category below the bar | Forum sync needed |
| All negative | Any | No hire |
| Split | Any | Forum sync needed |
One workspace per company, one role per person. The database enforces every line of this.
Hirebar doesn't replace your applicant tracking system, your recruiters or your interviews. It replaces the part where five senior people's judgement turns into one Slack message. Invite the forum, pick a template, and put the next candidate through it.
