AI Interview Assistant for Google Meet: Setup Guide

Google Meet runs in a web browser, so an AI interview assistant for Meet is either a desktop app that hears your computer's audio while Meet plays in the browser, or a phone app that hears the interviewer through your speakers. Meet needs no special capture setting, but your choice of tab, window or entire screen, the browser's Mac permission and how you join the audio all matter. Check what the employer allows, then test from a second device.

Google Meet runs in your browser

On a computer, Meet runs in the browser. Google's Meet requirements list current versions of Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari, on the current and two previous releases of macOS, Windows, ChromeOS and Debian-based Linux.

Google's desktop option is the Meet Progressive Web App, installed from Chrome. Google says it has the same features as Meet in the browser, so it behaves like Chrome for this setup.

That makes the browser the thing to test. Several Meet features that affect this setup, including presenting a single tab and picture-in-picture, are documented for Chrome, so Chrome is the most predictable choice for an interview.

Tab, window or entire screen in Meet

Google's presenting guide offers three choices when you present, and each exposes a different amount of your computer.

Choice	What the interviewer sees	Useful for
A tab	One Chrome tab; Meet shares that tab's audio by default	A document, a web-based coding pad or slides
A window	One app window	A code editor or a desktop app
Your entire screen	Everything on that display, including notifications	Interviewers who ask to watch your whole workspace

Two details from Google's guide trip people up. Presenting the Meet window itself causes a mirrored, repeating image, so pick a different tab or window. And if you need to switch to another tab mid-presentation, the banner at the top offers Share this tab instead.

Meet now also opens a floating picture-in-picture window of your audience when you start sharing a window or your entire screen. A December 2025 Workspace update switched this on by default, and Google's picture-in-picture guide shows how to change it under Settings › General. The floating window sits above other windows, so arrange it and any assistant window so neither covers the other or your work.

Get Meet audio to the assistant

Meet's audio comes out of the browser, through the speaker you select. Two ways of joining take the computer's speaker out of the call, and either one leaves a desktop assistant deaf.

• Present before joining. Google notes that clicking Present in the pre-join screen puts you in Companion mode, where your microphone and speaker are unavailable. Join the call normally first, then present.
• Use a phone for audio. Meet's phone audio option lets you hear and speak through a phone call instead of the computer's microphone and speaker. That leaves a desktop assistant with nothing to hear. The option is available only for meetings organized through Google Workspace.

Everything else is device matching. In the pre-join screen, Google's audio guide lets you pick the microphone and speaker, test the mic and click Test speakers, and warns that a mismatched microphone and external speaker can cause echo.

• Windows: Interview Pilot hears the default playback device, so set Meet's speaker to the device Windows uses by default.
• Mac: on macOS 14.4 or later, Interview Pilot hears computer audio directly; on earlier versions it hears only what reaches the microphone.
• Phone: the interviewer's voice must play out loud nearby. The phone guide covers screen time-outs and interruptions.

Set up a desktop assistant with Meet

Interview Pilot is designed to stay out of screen shares in Meet without any setting, as its meeting apps guide explains. The work is in the browser and operating system.

1. Give the browser screen permission on a Mac. Google's known issues page says that on macOS Sequoia you must allow Chrome when prompted the first time you present, and if you missed the prompt, turn on Chrome under screen and system audio recording in System Settings.
2. Give the assistant its own permission. Interview Pilot needs the same Screen & System Audio permission to hear the meeting. If the transcript stays empty, the Mac hearing checks go through each cause.
3. Use the same Chrome profile you'll interview from. Extensions, sign-in and permissions differ between profiles.
4. Decide where each window sits. Meet's picture-in-picture, your shared window and the assistant should not overlap. Interview Pilot floats above other windows and doesn't take focus, and ⌘B or Ctrl+B shows or hides it.
5. Silence the browser. Chrome notifications from other sites can appear on a full-screen share. Close tabs you don't need and turn on Do not disturb or a Focus mode.

What Meet shows everyone and what stays private

Meet treats a feature differently depending on whether it saves anything. Personal features stay on your screen; anything that creates a file announces itself.

Feature	Who sees it	Saved to
Live captions	Only you; Google says captions turn on only for the person who enables them	Not saved, unless a recording is started with captions included
Recording	Everyone is notified when it starts and stops	The organizer's Google Drive
Transcripts	A Transcripts icon appears for all participants	The organizer's Google Drive
Take notes for me	Meet informs all participants; a pencil icon shows on every screen	A Google Doc in the organizer's Drive

Recording, transcripts and Gemini note-taking depend on the organizer's Google Workspace edition and admin settings, so a recruiter on a personal Google account may not have them at all.

Captions are worth switching on for any interview where audio might break up, and they're separate from any assistant. The guide to Google Meet live captions covers language choice and scroll-back.

Test checklist before a Google Meet interview

Run this in the same browser, profile and network you'll use. Interview Pilot's two-minute test has the full version.

1. Open a meeting from your own Google account at meet.google.com and join it from your phone, muted, volume low.
2. Check devices in the pre-join screen. Pick the speaker and microphone, test both, then join normally rather than with Present.
3. Start the assistant, then present a tab, a window and your entire screen in turn.
4. Look at the phone each time. Confirm the share is live, the assistant doesn't appear and the picture-in-picture window isn't covering anything you need.
5. Test the interviewer's voice. Speak into the phone from another room; the words should reach the assistant's transcript. Then speak at the computer.
6. Switch tabs mid-share with Share this tab instead if the interview will involve more than one tab.
7. Leave without generating an answer, so a free-plan test doesn't use a weekly session.

Responsible use in a Google Meet interview

A live assistant does two things an employer may care about: it transcribes the call and it suggests answers. T. Rowe Price's guidelines for candidates rule out both: no reading from AI-generated scripts or prompts in a live interview, and no recording or transcribing the interview unless you have explicit permission.

Rules differ, so ask before the call. Some interviewers welcome notes, and others expect no aids at all.

• Keep anything you say true to your own experience.
• Use suggestions as reminders, then answer in your own words while looking at the camera.
• Practice your examples without the assistant until they hold up to a follow-up question. The online interview tips cover the camera side.

Frequently asked questions

Can the interviewer see my AI assistant in Google Meet?

Only your camera feed and the tab, window or screen you present reach the interviewer. Interview Pilot is designed to stay out of shares in Meet with no setting, yet browsers and operating systems capture differently, so join from a second device and look. Your physical screen stays visible to any camera or person in the room.

Can Google Meet see my other tabs?

Not unless you present them. Presenting a tab shares only that tab, and presenting a window shares only that window. Presenting your entire screen shares everything on that display, including other tabs and notifications.

Why can't my AI assistant hear the interviewer in Google Meet?

The usual causes are joining with Present from the pre-join screen, which turns off your speaker, or using a phone for Meet audio, which takes the computer out of the call. Otherwise, check the speaker in Meet matches your system default and that the assistant has its audio permission.

Does Google Meet notify others when someone uses captions?

No. Google says live captions turn on only for the person who enables them, and it documents no notice to other participants. Recording, transcripts and Take notes for me are different: Meet notifies everyone when they are running.

Is there a Google Meet desktop app for interviews?

Meet runs in the browser. Google offers a Progressive Web App you install from Chrome, which has the same features as Meet in a Chrome tab, so test it the same way.