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Templates let you save a set of interview questions and reuse them across multiple interviews without rebuilding from scratch each time. If you have a strong question set for a Software Engineer role, a Customer Success interview, or a coaching intake session, you save it once and pull it into any new interview in seconds.
[ SCREENSHOT ] Question Library or template creation screen showing a saved template with its name and question list.
[ GIF ] Full walkthrough of creating a new template: naming it, adding questions with Key Information and Criteria Checks, and saving it to the library.

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Creating a Template

  1. Open the Question Library from your dashboard or from inside an interview’s question builder.
  2. Click Create Template or New Template.
  3. Give the template a clear, searchable name. Use the role, function, or use case: “Senior Software Engineer,” “Sales Development Rep Screening,” “Mock Interview: Behavioral Round.”
  4. Add your questions. For each question, set the question title, question text, Key Information tags, and Criteria Checks. See Using Bridge AI for guidance on writing effective inputs.
  5. Set the recording time limit per question if you want a specific duration.
  6. Click Save Template. It is now available in your library for any future interview.
[ SCREENSHOT ] Template builder showing a question being added with Key Information tags and Criteria Checks filled in.
[ GIF ] Saving a completed template and seeing it appear in the template list.

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Applying a Template to an Interview

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When creating a new interview

During the interview setup flow, you will see an option to select from your saved templates. Choose the template you want and its questions are loaded automatically. You can edit, reorder, or add questions before publishing.
[ SCREENSHOT ] Interview setup flow showing the template selection step with a dropdown of saved templates.

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Bulk applying a template to all candidates

If you have already created an interview and want to apply a different question template to all candidates in it at once, use Bulk Apply Template in Invite Settings:
  1. Open the interview from your dashboard.
  2. Click Invite Settings in the top right of the Invite Candidates panel.
  3. Under Bulk Apply Template, select the template from the dropdown.
  4. Click Apply to All Candidates.
This replaces the existing question configuration for all pending candidates with the selected template in one step.
[ SCREENSHOT ] Invite Settings panel showing the Bulk Apply Template dropdown with a template selected.

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Managing Your Templates

From the Question Library, you can:
  • Edit a template to update questions, Key Information, or Criteria Checks. Changes apply to new uses of the template and do not retroactively change completed interviews.
  • Duplicate a template to create a variation without overwriting the original. Useful when you need a slightly different version for a different seniority level or market.
  • Delete a template you no longer use. This does not affect interviews already published with that template.
[ SCREENSHOT ] Question Library showing the list of saved templates with Edit, Duplicate, and Delete options visible.

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Templates for Coaches and Schools

Templates are especially powerful in coaching and academic settings where the same interview format is delivered repeatedly to different clients or cohorts. Coaches: Build a core behavioral interview template and a core technical interview template. Duplicate and customize for each client’s specific target role. Your Criteria Checks stay consistent; only the framing changes. Schools: Create templates for each program cohort or course. Every student in the same class answers the same questions evaluated against the same criteria, giving faculty a fair, apples-to-apples comparison across the cohort.
Name templates with a version convention if you iterate often: “BDR Screening v1,” “BDR Screening v2.” This makes it easy to track which version produced the best candidate quality over time.