[locklock]

I've only listened to this one, but...

1) You sound very anxious and/or nervous. Which is normal, interviewing isn't fun and can be stressful, but it does not come across great. See if you can relax a bit?

2) "Why do you want to work here?" is one of the most softball questions you can get in a phone screen... they want to know that you've done 5 minutes of research about the company, their tech stack, their values, basically anything. It doesn't have to be your dream job but you have to sound like you're somewhat familiar with what they do and at least partially interested in being a part of it.

"I don't actually know what your company does, sorry, I just sent my resume out to a bunch of places" is about the worst answer you can give here. Why would a company want to hire someone who doesn't know anything about the company and doesn't even pretend to care?

[sireat]

Anecdotally, just knowing what the company does and various stacks they use is a huge plus.

Knowing a bit about the founders and the corporate structure can help too.

Why wouldn't you do just a little bit of research?

[antisemiotic]

>See if you can relax a bit?

Sorry (to OP) if I'm jumping into conclusions, but the "I didn't want to have to relive them by listening through them again to add in the beeps." part makes me think that it might be more serious than "have you tried not being anxious?". Speaking from personal experience, a therapy for social anxiety can help a lot in such cases.

[icedchai]

For #2, "how much do you know about our company? what do you think we do here?" is what I usually ask. If the candidate has no clue, it's not good. I mean, they can't take 5 minutes to look at a web site before the call?