HireVue interviews, explained

Start with the question you actually have

Most people arrive here with one specific worry rather than a general curiosity. Pick it.

Then do one before it counts

Reading about a timer does not prepare you for a timer. The failure modes on a one-way screen are almost never about knowing the answer: they are running out mid-sentence, leaving twenty seconds of silence at the end, or spending the whole preparation window panicking instead of choosing an example.

The simulator runs the same shape as the real thing: question on screen, preparation countdown, one take, hard stop. Your video never leaves your device. The audio of each answer is sent once to be turned into text and is then dropped, and the text is what gets graded — by AI, which is labelled as AI everywhere it appears.

Employer question sets

Eight employers, each built from the competencies that employer publishes about itself. To be exact about what that means: nobody outside these firms has their real screening questions, us included. What these pages carry is the process facts each employer states in its own words, and practice prompts derived from its own published competency framework, each one labelled as derived rather than quoted.

Where this section is careful

Three claims you will see confidently stated elsewhere, which we will not make:

• "These are the real HireVue questions." They are not. No legitimate source publishes any employer's current one-way video questions. Anything presenting a list as the real script is either guessing or breaching somebody's terms of use.
• "Practising will get you the job." It will not. Rehearsal changes how an answer comes out under a timer. It does not change a screening decision, and we have no way to measure that it does.
• "You get 30 seconds to prepare and 3 minutes to answer." Usually, but those are settings your employer chooses. The timing page shows where the numbers come from and what HireVue itself recommends instead.

One more, which matters more than the others: this is preparation software. It is for use before your assessment, never during it. McKinsey, BlackRock and JPMorganChase each publish policies that permit AI for preparation and prohibit it during assessment. We agree with them.