Interview Round Timer
Set up your interview loop as named rounds with their own minutes and an optional buffer between them. A quiet 5-minute warning keeps you on time without an alarm going off in front of the candidate.
Built by the AbraCalc team
How to play
- Add each round by name — Intro, Coding, Behavioral, Wrap-up, or your own — and set its own minute budget; rounds run in the order you type them, never shuffled.
- Set an optional buffer in minutes to insert between every pair of rounds for notes or a breather; leave it at zero to skip buffers entirely.
- Tap Start Loop. The current round's name and a draining ring show huge, and a quiet on-screen five-minute warning appears near the end of each round without an alarm unless you turned the audible chime on.
- Tap Next Round to hand off early, or let a round finish on its own — either way a soft chime marks the handoff and the loop moves to the next round or buffer automatically.
List your interview loop as named rounds — Intro, Coding, Behavioral, Wrap-up, or whatever your panel actually runs — and give each one its own minute budget instead of splitting one shared total evenly. Add an optional buffer between rounds for notes or a breather, and it runs as its own timed step that never eats into either round's time. Once you start, a ring quietly drains toward zero and a discreet five-minute warning appears on screen well before time runs out, with the loud chime kept off by default so nothing beeps in front of the candidate. Tap Next Round any time to hand off early, and a running chip list keeps the whole panel oriented on what's done and what's next.
Frequently asked questions
- How is this different from the Standup Timer tool?
- Standup Timer shuffles a list of names into a fair random speaking order and splits one shared time budget into equal boxes per person. This tool keeps rounds in the exact order you type them, gives each round its own independently-set minute budget, and adds an optional timed buffer step between rounds — nothing here is shuffled or evenly split.
- Will the timer make noise when a round is about to end?
- Not by default. The five-minute warning shows as a quiet on-screen cue and color change so you notice without the candidate hearing anything. There's a checkbox in setup to turn on an audible chime for the warning if your panel prefers that.
- Does the buffer between rounds count against either round's time?
- No. A buffer is its own separate timed step in the sequence, with its own minutes, that runs between two rounds. It never subtracts from or adds to the minute budget you set for the rounds on either side of it.