CuriousForms: an interviewer, disguised as a form

You have read these answers before

Every form collects them. Pick one to see the question Curious would ask next.

Curious would ask

How big was the team, and what is one call you made that they disagreed with?

What happens between two questions

Every answer is read against your goal before the next question appears. Most of the time nothing visible happens. When something is missing, one more question does.

Reads the answer

Does it answer the question? Is there first-hand detail?

Respects a no

If someone declines, it moves on without pressing.

Question 2 of 6

How did checkout go for you today?

It was fine I guess, a bit slow.

Clarifying

You said: a bit slow

Which step felt slow: the address, the payment, or the confirmation?

Quotes their words

The follow-up shows what it is asking about, so it never feels random.

Stops at your limit

Never more follow-ups than you allowed for the question.

You decide where it digs

Set it per question. A name needs no follow-up. “Tell us about a hard bug” might deserve three.

Off

Asked as written, kept as given.

Clarify

One follow-up, only when something the question asked for is missing.

Go deep

Up to three follow-ups, until there is first-hand proof. Some can be quick checks built from the person’s own words.

What lands on your desk

One clear answer per question, in the person’s own terms. Beside it, what the readings found. Example data.

Hiring formBackend engineer

Priya Raman

86Strong fit

Led the move from nightly cron jobs to a queue. Chose ordered retries per customer; duplicate charges went from about forty a month to none.

A project you led
Running Postgres in production
Quick check on Kafka: Answered right

Feedback formCheckout, 48 responses

Sentiment

NegativePositive

Topics people raised

Speed: 19
Payment options: 11
Delivery dates: 7

“The payment page reloads when I switch to UPI and I lose the coupon.”

Scores, checks, and flags are notes for you to weigh. Curious never rejects anyone on its own, and if the AI is unavailable the form keeps working and keeps the person’s own words.

Priya Raman, 86. Three follow-ups, one quick check answered right.

Every response has a shape

Each ring is a question. The dark arc is how fully it was answered at first, the orange arc is what the follow-ups added, and each bead is one follow-up. A small circle is a quick check, orange when answered right. A dashed ring was declined.

Shapes drawn from example responses to a seven-question hiring form.

Whatever your form is for

Every kind of form gets its own kind of vague answer. Here is the one you know, and what Curious asks next.

Hiring

For founders and hiring leads screening applicants

“I have worked with Kafka.”

What did you build with it, and what went wrong the first time?

You get

A score from 0 to 100 for each candidate, with the answers behind it.

Feedback

For product, support, and customer teams

“Could be better.”

Better how? Name the one thing you would change first.

You get

Sentiment, the topics people keep raising, and the quotes worth reading.

Research

For researchers and product managers

“We mostly use spreadsheets.”

Tell us about the last time a spreadsheet let you down.

You get

Interview-depth answers from many people at once, read by theme.

Training

For people teams checking that training landed

“I would report it.”

Report it to whom, and how quickly?

You get

Who really understood, shown by quick checks built from their own words.

Start with what you want to know

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