Where an organisation has turned monitoring on, you are told before it starts and asked to agree. Nothing is watched without your knowledge.
What can be watched
Depending on what the organisation configured:
- Your camera — that a person is present, that it is the same person, and whether anyone else is in frame.
- Your microphone — whether another voice is present.
- Tab and window switching — whether you leave the interview.
- Your screen — where screen sharing is required.
- Connected displays — whether a second screen is attached.
What is recorded
Your video and audio for the sitting, the transcript, and the events the monitoring raised. Snapshots may be captured when something is flagged.
Recording is of the interview. It does not continue afterwards, and it does not extend to anything outside the browser tab except where screen sharing was explicitly required and you granted it.
What actually counts against you
Far less than most people fear. A flag is an observation, not a verdict, and the recruiter sees the evidence rather than only a number.
Ordinary things that get flagged and are routinely nothing: looking away to think, a household member speaking in another room, stretching, a notification stealing focus once.
What genuinely reads badly is a pattern — leaving the tab at the same point in every answer, a second voice that speaks in turn with you, a face that changes.
If something goes wrong
If your camera fails mid-interview the platform tells you rather than silently recording nothing. Follow the on-screen guidance; where monitoring cannot be restored the interview records that it was unavailable, which is a known condition rather than something you did.
Your rights
You can ask what was recorded, request a copy, and object. Monitoring settings and the disclosures that go with them are shown before you consent — reading them takes a minute and is worth it.