What is a panel interview?

A panel interview is an interview conducted by two or more interviewers with a single candidate at the same time. The questions are shared out between the members of the panel, who ask the questions they are assigned in turn.

In HireBest, each hiring interview has one interviewer. So for most roles we recommend a series of one-to-one interviews instead of a panel: divide the candidate's career into chapters and give each interviewer one or two of them. See How many interviews is best?

Whatever the format, each interviewer completes their own Cipher rating after the interview. HireBest shows how many of the interviewers have rated the candidate, so the team can debrief on the facts. See Complete a Cipher rating and Run a debrief.