Q01
Message
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Candidate Hiring Experience Feedback Survey
Captures how job candidates experienced your recruiting and interview process, from job posting through offer or rejection, so talent acquisition teams can spot friction points. An AI follow-up interview reconstructs the specific moment that shaped the candidate's overall impression, surfacing concrete fixes that satisfaction scores alone miss.
Sample questions
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13 questions · ~7 min
Q02
Multiple ChoiceRequired
Which stage did you reach in our hiring process?
- Applied but never heard back
- Phone or initial screen
- One or more interviews
- Received an offer
- Hired
Q03
Opinion ScaleRequired
Overall, how satisfied were you with your experience going through our hiring process?
Scale: 1 – 7
Min:Not at all satisfiedMax:Extremely satisfied
Q04
Rating ScaleRequired
How would you rate the clarity and timeliness of communication from our recruiting team?
Range: 1 – 5
Min:PoorMax:Excellent
Q05
Matrix
Please rate each part of your experience.
5 rows × 5 columns
- Accuracy of the job posting
- Ease of the application process
- Interview scheduling
- Interviewer preparedness
- Feedback or updates after interviews
Columns: Poor · Below average · Average · Good · Excellent
Q06
AI Interview
Reconstruct the specific moment or interaction that most shaped this candidate's overall impression of the process — good or bad. Anchor on a concrete example (a call, an email, an interview question, a delay) rather than general impressions. If they reached the offer or interview stage, probe what almost changed their mind or decision. If their satisfaction rating was low, dig into exactly what broke down and who was involved without asking them to name individuals unless volunteered.
Q07
Opinion ScaleRequired
How likely are you to recommend our company as a place to work to a friend or colleague?
Scale: 0 – 10
Min:Not at all likelyMax:Extremely likely
Q08
Multiple Choice
If a future position matches your background, how likely are you to apply again?
- Definitely would
- Probably would
- Not sure
- Probably would not
- Definitely would not
Q09
Ranking
Rank the following in order of how much they shaped your overall impression of the process, from most to least important.
- Speed of the process
- Quality of communication
- Professionalism of interviewers
- Clarity about the role and expectations
- Fairness of the interview questions or assessment
- Transparency about compensation and next steps
Drag to rank
Q10
Long Text
What's one thing we could change to make the hiring process better for future candidates?
Q11
Multiple Choice
What was the experience level of the role you applied to?
- Entry-level
- Mid-level
- Senior
- Executive or leadership
- Prefer not to say
Q12
Multiple Choice
How did you first hear about this opening?
- Company website
- Job board
- LinkedIn or social media
- Employee referral
- Recruiter outreach
- Prefer not to say
Q13
Message
That's everything — thank you for your candor. Your feedback goes directly to our talent acquisition team as we work to make the hiring experience better for future candidates.
What’s included
AI follow-ups
Adaptive probes on open-ended answers that pull out detail a static form would miss.
Attention checks
Built-in safeguards against rushed answers and low-quality respondents.
AI-drafted copy
Wording, ordering, and branching written by the AI — tuned to your research goal.
Auto report
Themes, quotes, and a plain-English summary write themselves once responses come in.
How it compares
We reviewed the closest templates from other survey tools. Here’s what they do well — and where this template goes further.
Why this template
- Goes beyond a satisfaction score with an AI follow-up interview that reconstructs the specific moment that shaped the candidate's overall impression, surfacing concrete fixes static scales can't.
- Combines quantitative signal (opinion scale satisfaction, recommend-as-employer-score, rating, matrix, ranking) with qualitative depth (long text and AI-driven interview) in one flow.
- Covers the full candidate journey — stage reached, experience level, source channel, communication clarity, and likelihood to reapply — so friction points can be segmented by where they occur.
- Auto-generates a report from responses, and prompts used in the AI interview are transparent rather than a black box.
SurveySparrow
Candidate Experience Survey TemplateA ready-to-field template covering standard candidate experience questions with SurveySparrow's conversational-style survey UI. It's built for quick deployment rather than deep root-cause analysis of any single answer. Question set appears fixed rather than adapting per respondent.
What it does well
- Fielding-ready template, no build-from-scratch needed
- Conversational chat-style UI that can feel more engaging than a plain form
- Part of a broader employee-experience template library, easy to adapt
Where it falls short
- Static question set with no adaptive AI follow-up probing into individual answers
- No voice AI interview option or guided screen-share task capability
- No published methodology for how responses are scored or reported
Jotform
Candidate Feedback Survey Form TemplateA customizable form-builder template best suited to teams that want to design their own layout and logic manually. It functions as a static data-collection form rather than an interview experience. Good for basic feedback capture, not for reconstructing why a candidate felt a certain way.
What it does well
- Highly customizable drag-and-drop form fields
- Easy integration into Jotform's broader forms/workflow ecosystem
- Low-friction setup for simple feedback collection
Where it falls short
- No adaptive AI follow-up questioning — all questions are pre-set and identical for every respondent
- No voice AI or guided task/screen-share capability
- No automated quality scoring of individual responses
Typeform
Candidate Feedback Survey TemplateA polished, one-question-at-a-time template that reads conversationally but is still a fixed sequence of pre-written questions. Strong on presentation and completion rates, but the 'conversation' is scripted, not AI-driven. No mechanism to dig deeper into any specific candidate answer.
What it does well
- Clean, one-at-a-time conversational presentation known for higher completion rates
- Easy template customization within Typeform's design system
- Broad integration ecosystem for distributing and collecting responses
Where it falls short
- No adaptive AI follow-up interview — the flow does not change based on prior answers
- No voice AI interview or guided screen-share task option
- No automated per-response quality scoring or transparent prompt methodology
SurveyMonkey
Candidate Experience Survey Template + 25 Example QuestionsThis page is as much a question-bank/guide (25 example questions) as it is a fielding-ready template, so teams should expect to curate and configure it before launch. It offers standard scale and text question types for candidate feedback. There's no mechanism for the survey to probe deeper into any single response.
What it does well
- Large bank of example questions to draw from for customization
- Backed by SurveyMonkey's established survey logic and reporting dashboard
- Good starting point for teams wanting to write their own question set
Where it falls short
- Presented partly as a question-example guide rather than a single ready-to-send survey
- No adaptive AI follow-up interview or voice AI interview capability
- No automated quality scoring of individual responses or transparent AI prompt disclosure
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