Elastic

I was talking to a colleague of mine here at Elastic. She said, "Have you heard about Metaview?" I hadn't heard of Metaview until that call and I was using it by the next day. It wasn't just, "Have you heard of Metaview?” It was “Have you heard of Metaview and I think it's great." So she said, you should try it.

With Metaview, what I'm impressed about is not only accuracy of the transcriptions based off of what I've seen so far, but you'll have words like Kubernetes. You'll have things like New Relic. It knows not just what the words are, but it knows whether to capitalize them or not. It knows whether the company name is all one word or two words. It feels like there's a very strong vocabulary built into it. So the accuracy of the data is very impressive.

So far I've found it to be very accurate and also packages the notes in a way that's very digestible. I'm a bit of a perfectionist, so I'll tidy things up a little, but in reality the notes are pretty much just good to go as is, which is great. The quality of the returned product is very good.

Before Metaview, what would happen is I would get off a call with someone and then I'd go back to the notes and tidy them up for readability. Now with Metaview, the notes are pretty much ready to go and I just need to review them for accuracy and where they should go in my scorecard feedback. It could easily save 10 minutes. A 45 minute call that would take 55 minutes to package could just be 45 minutes now.

The biggest challenge by far when I'm interviewing people is keeping up with what they're saying. And when I'm talking to a product manager, which is a big part of what I do here, it's like, “Tell me about this product. What solution was it? What problem was it trying to fix? What were you doing? What was your role? What was the team doing?” And then they're going to give me answers that I have a hard time keeping up with. Now, I found with Metaview, I can ask questions, sit here relaxed, and not have to worry. I will tell people on a call when I'm typing, "Hey, could you hold up for a second? I wanna get that last point." I lose a lot when I'm typing. I just don't get it all. Now I can get it all and then I can decide what I want to keep. So that's really significant. Because I can have better conversations with people, get more useful data faster.