InterviewBuddy - AI Interview Assistant Chrome extension security report

InterviewBuddy — Your Real-Time AI Interview Assistant Ace every interview with confidence. InterviewBuddy listens to your interview in real time, instantly detects questions, and delivers expert-quality answers right inside your browser — powered by GPT-5.4. Whether you're on Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, or any browser-based interview platform, InterviewBuddy captures both your microphone and tab audio, transcribes the conversation live, and streams AI-generated answers the moment a question is asked. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOW IT WORKS 1. Open the InterviewBuddy side panel during your interview call 2. Click the mic button (or press Cmd+Shift+L / Ctrl+Shift+L) to start listening 3. InterviewBuddy transcribes the conversation in real time 4. When an interview question is detected, an expert answer streams instantly — word by word 5. Answers appear in the side panel AND in a sleek floating card overlay on your page ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ KEY FEATURES ● Real-Time Audio Capture — Captures both microphone and browser tab audio simultaneously. Works with any browser-based meeting platform. ● Live Transcription — See what's being said in real time with a live transcript indicator. Powered by OpenAI's real-time transcription model. ● Instant AI Answers — The moment an interview question is detected, GPT-5.4 streams a high-quality, interview-ready answer word by word. ● Floating Answer Card — A sleek, draggable overlay appears on your page showing the latest answers. Supports up to 3 answer cards at once. Swipe to dismiss. Auto-hides during screen sharing for complete discretion. ● Smart Question Detection — Only responds to actual interview questions. Ignores casual conversation, statements, and small talk. ● Copy Answers — One-click copy button on every answer card for quick reference. ● Markdown Support — Answers render with bold, italic, inline code, and proper formatting for technical responses. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 9 INTERVIEW TYPES Tailor the AI to your specific interview format: • General (auto-detect) • Technical (coding, algorithms, system concepts) • Behavioral (STAR method, stories, experiences) • System Design (architecture, scalability, trade-offs) • HR / Screening (goals, culture fit, motivation) • Sales (pitches, negotiation, revenue strategy) • Product Management (product sense, metrics, strategy) • Marketing (campaigns, growth, analytics) • Other (custom) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ EXPERIENCE LEVELS Answers are calibrated to your seniority: • Fresher (0–1 years) • Junior (1–3 years) • Mid-level (3–5 years) • Senior (5–8 years) • Tech Lead (8–12 years) • Principal / Staff+ (12+ years) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 3 ANSWER STYLES Choose the depth that fits your interview pace: • Concise — 2–3 sentences. Quick and to the point. • Detailed — 4–6 sentences. Balanced depth. • Expert — 6–10 sentences. Comprehensive, in-depth answers. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CUSTOM JOB ROLE Set your target role (e.g., "React Developer", "Data Scientist", "Product Manager") and answers are personalized to match the context and expectations of that role. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS • Cmd+Shift+Y (Ctrl+Shift+Y) — Open/close the InterviewBuddy side panel • Cmd+Shift+L (Ctrl+Shift+L) — Start/stop listening • Cmd+Shift+K (Ctrl+Shift+K) — Show/hide the floating answer card ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRICING Free Plan: • 30 free questions — no credit card required • All answer styles and interview types included • GPT-5.4 powered answers Pro Plan — $19/month: • Unlimited questions • All features unlocked • Priority email support Team Plan — Starting at $49/month: • 3 seats included + $15 per additional seat • Invite team members via email • Team management dashboard • All Pro features for every member ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TEAM FEATURES • Create a team and invite members via email • Members join using an invite code • Team owner can manage and remove members • Shared plan across the entire team ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRIVACY & SECURITY • Audio is streamed for transcription and never permanently stored • Transcriptions are discarded after each session • Recording consent screen ensures compliance awareness • Auto-hides floating card during screen sharing • Google OAuth and email/password authentication supported ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BUILT-IN SUPPORT Submit bug reports, feature requests, or issues directly from the extension. Track your tickets and receive replies — all without leaving the app. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ADDITIONAL FEATURES • Dark & Light theme • Real-time credits badge showing remaining questions • Smart deduplication — ignores duplicate audio from mic and tab • Auto-reconnect if connection drops • Remembers floating card position across sessions • Works on any website with a meeting or video call ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Get started in seconds. Install InterviewBuddy, open the side panel, and let AI handle the hard questions while you focus on making a great impression.