HireVue is the video interview software many employers use for an early interview round. In an on-demand interview you record answers to the employer's questions on your own time, and in a live interview you meet the employer's interviewers on a scheduled video call. Try one first with our free HireVue practice tool: timed questions on your own camera, no sign-up, and the video stays in your browser.
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HireVue makes the interview software. The company you applied to sets up the interview, picks the questions and decides who moves on. Your invitation says which kind of interview you have.
You record answers to the employer's questions alone, on your own time.
A real-time video call with someone from the hiring company.
What it is
You answer the employer's questions on a computer, tablet or phone, whenever suits you before the deadline. Someone at the company reviews the recordings.
Answer types
Most questions need a recorded video answer. Some employers add a written essay or multiple choice questions.
The clock
Each question shows a prep countdown, then a response countdown. The employer sets both. You can start recording early and click Done Answering before the time is up.
Retakes
A screen before your first question shows how many attempts you get. Once you submit an answer you can't go back to it. A fresh interview needs the employer's approval.
Practice
Generic questions you can redo as often as you like and watch back. They are never uploaded, and nobody else sees them.
Integrity checks
Employers can turn on browser and screen checks, flags when you leave the interview window, paste blocking and snapshots. HireVue's integrity page says these are explained before you start.
Due date
Your invitation gives a due date or a suggested window. After the due date the link stops working. Ask the employer if you need more time.
What it is
You meet someone from the hiring company at a set time, much like any video call. It is also your chance to ask them questions.
Before
The invitation has your time and a system test link. HireVue suggests running the test at least 24 hours ahead. Double-check the time zone.
Screen sharing
A live interview has a Screenshare button for showing your screen to the interviewer. It works only on a desktop or laptop.
What it is
Some employers use HireVue's AI Interviewer. It asks the employer's questions, follows up on your answers and records them.
Scoring
It rates each answer against criteria set for the role and explains why. Recruiters see the scores and make the call.
Your options
Candidates give consent to AI and can ask for accommodations or an AI opt-out, according to that product page. Human support stays available.
Games
Some interviews include game-based assessments: a short series of games, each under 20 minutes. HireVue lists skills such as problem solving, attention, memory and learning agility.
How they run
Each game opens with an instruction video. You see the level and the time left, and you can pause to reread the instructions. You move up or down levels depending on how you do.
Device
On Windows in Chrome or Edge, try the HireVue for Candidates app, Firefox or Safari, or turn off hardware acceleration.
Coding
Some employers add a coding assessment. HireVue offers challenges in popular programming languages, from its own library or written by the employer, and checks submissions for possible plagiarism.
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Every interview goes to the employer to review. Some employers also add a HireVue assessment that scores the answers. This is how HireVue describes it.
Video assessments look at what you know about the job and at skills like communication, problem solving, teamwork and initiative. The competencies come from organizational psychologists' research on what matters in that role.
For AI-scored answers, your speech is turned into text and the content is scored against the role's criteria. Facial expressions, body language, appearance, background and tone of voice are not scored.
Visual analysis was removed from all new assessments early in 2020, HireVue announced in 2021. Your video is never used to identify you.
An assessment considers the whole context of a response, beyond certain words here or there.
Each assessment model is made for one job role, and many for one employer. There is no single perfect candidate you are measured against.
The AI informs recruiters, and they make the final call. An answer with too few words to score is flagged for a person to review.
From HireVue: the candidate FAQ, Our Science, its January 2021 announcement and the AI Explainability Statement.
An on-demand HireVue on a computer, as HireVue's help center lays it out. The phone app follows the same order.
The invitation
Click Practice or Interview in the email. HireVue recommends Chrome. The email also gives your due date or window.
First screens
You see the company, the role, the number and types of questions and an estimated time. If you need more time because of a disability, the first page has a link to request it.
Setup
Accept the terms and allow camera and microphone access. Check that you can see yourself and that the mic meter moves when you talk. Then a screen shows your attempts per question.
Practice
A blue ribbon marks it. Answer, watch it back, fix your light or sound and go again. You can also close the window and return later with the same link.
Each question
The question shows with a prep countdown and a Not Recording note. A three-second countdown starts the recording, either when prep time ends or when you click Start Recording.
If you drop out
You return to your last unanswered question. An answer you were in the middle of may already be submitted. Finish the interview and tell the employer.
After
The recruiter is notified when you finish, and the hiring team reviews your answers. HireVue has no view of your application status, so ask the employer.
From HireVue's candidate help center, read October 23, 2026. Your employer's setup can differ.
Employers write their own questions. These four follow the kinds HireVue's candidate FAQ describes, plus the why this job question employers often ask. Our full list, with notes, is on our HireVue questions page.
A real story about something you did.
Tell me about a time you achieved something difficult against real obstacles.
Pick one story with a clear obstacle. Spend most of the time on what you did, and end on the result, in a number if you have one. Practice it, see a model answer
What you would do in a situation you haven't faced.
Your manager asks you to drop your project for another team's urgent request. What do you do?
Say what you would ask first, the call you would make and how you would keep both people in the loop.
You act the answer out instead of describing it.
A customer is upset that a delivery is late. Speak to them now as you would on the job.
Based on the angry customer example in HireVue's candidate FAQ
Talk to the customer directly. Acknowledge the problem, say what you will do and by when, and keep your tone calm.
Why this job and this employer.
Why do you want this role, and why with us?
Give two reasons that only fit this employer, and tie each one to something you have already done.
HireVue's own tips come first. The last two are ours.
HireVue's tip
Research the role and the company. Have real examples ready for the skills the job description asks for.
HireVue's tip
Challenges you faced, the approach you took and the results, from work or school. Get comfortable telling them. Your notes can sit next to you.
HireVue's tip
A quiet room, light in front of you, a charged device and a connection of at least 350 Kbps. Put your video window near the top center of the screen, so looking at it reads as eye contact.
HireVue's tip
Run the system check ahead of time, then close the window and come back when you're ready. Do the practice questions before the real ones.
HireVue's tip
Most video assessments take 20 to 30 minutes or less. Set aside 45, at the time of day you feel most alert.
Our tip
Answer out loud with a prep timer and an answer timer, then watch yourself back. About two minutes per answer is a good target unless your invitation says otherwise.
Our tip
Live interviews and the AI Interviewer can ask follow-up questions. Rehearse with an interviewer who asks them, so each story holds up past the first answer.
Soreno's AI interviewer asks you a question out loud, follows up like a live interviewer and scores your answer. Or start with our free timed practice on your own camera, with no sign-up.
Employers can turn on browser and screen checks, focus-loss flags, paste blocking and snapshots, and HireVue's integrity page says they are explained before you start. Assume leaving the window will be flagged. A live interview also has a Screenshare button for showing your screen to the interviewer, on a desktop or laptop only.
Don't use it to answer. Deutsche Bank's candidate FAQ, for one, strongly recommends not using AI tools for its video interview questions. Employers can have HireVue flag pasting and leaving the interview window, so answer in your own words. HireVue does not publish a tool that detects ChatGPT itself.
HireVue does not publish whether employers see the takes you recorded over. The employer sets the number of attempts, shown before your first question, and HireVue's recommended setting for AI-scored interviews is one or two retries after the first try. Practice answers are never uploaded.
No, by HireVue's own account. In January 2021 it said it had removed visual analysis from all its new assessments early in 2020. Its science page now says it does not use facial analysis to evaluate candidates, and AI-scored answers are based on what you say. It never uses your video to identify you.
No. The AI supports recruiters and does not make the hiring decision. The employer reviews your interview and decides who moves on. For most jobs, the people who pass this first step go on to interviews with people before anyone is hired.
HireVue's interview tips say yes: write a list of brief stories and keep your notes next to you in case you need a reminder. Some employers set their own rules, so check your invitation.
There are two things with that name. A Candidate Insights report is something some employers send you after an assessment. It describes your work-related competencies with tips for development, and getting one does not mean a decision has been made. Interview Insights is a recruiter tool that makes AI summaries and searchable transcripts of interviews.
No. Soreno is an independent practice tool, not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by HireVue or any employer named on this page. The practice questions are Soreno's own.
