Adaptive AI interviews and hands-on labs — returning an auditable shortlist your engineering managers can trust.
Meet Rio
Rio runs every first-round interview for cloud, DevOps, and AI roles — and generates each follow-up question from the candidate's last answer.
Labs, evidence, and adaptive depth — so faking it costs more than doing it.
01 · Hands-on labs
Every candidate gets a live environment and a real brief: route traffic, wire services, survive failures. The score comes from what runs, not from what they say ran.
02 · Evidence trails
Every dimension of the interview is scored, and every number links to the moment it was earned. Open any score and read the exact transcript line behind it.
“I'd rule out the load balancer first — its health checks pass, so the 502s originate downstream.”
03 · Adaptive depth
Each follow-up is generated from the last answer, one layer deeper every time. Rehearsed candidates run out of script; real ones keep going. Same competencies, same difficulty, same rubric for everyone — only the surface questions change.
Your checkout service intermittently returns 502s behind the load balancer. Where do you start?
Target-group health checks pass, and the app logs are clean around each spike.
If both pass, the 502s start below the gateway. What in the pod lifecycle would produce them under load?
Coverage
Recio runs first-round interviews across the roles technical teams actually hire for — each one calibrated to the role, the stack, and the candidate's experience level.
Paste the JD. Recio gives you a branded application link — or import the applicants you already have.
A conversation that digs into what they've actually run.
Walk me through your last sev-1 — what failed first?
A regional cache fleet. We failed reads over before writes…
A live environment, scored on what gets built.
A ranked shortlist with proof behind every score.
Recio assumes every candidate has AI open in another tab — and verifies anyway. And a human makes every final call: Recio recommends with evidence, it never rejects anyone on its own.
Browser-based liveness checks are designed to run quietly during the interview. No plugins, no lockdown client.
Claimed experience is verified against how the candidate actually performs before the shortlist is built.
Labs run in one real attempt — no endless retries to fish for the expected answer. It keeps the test honest, and fair to everyone who did it right the first time.