Practice a HireVue interview, free
You cannot rehearse a one-way interview in your head, and there is nobody to run one with you tonight. This one runs in your browser: question on screen, prep countdown, one take, hard stop.
Your browser asks for the microphone only when you press Start. The camera stays off unless you switch it on, and your video never leaves your device. What leaves your browser.
The simulator
Five or six competency questions, each with a preparation window and a hard answer limit that stops the recording for you. No follow-ups, because a real one-way screen has none.
Free, and it does not ask you to make an account. Your browser asks for camera and microphone permission when you press start, not before. The video stays in your browser; the audio of each answer is sent once to be turned into text and is then dropped, and the text is what gets graded. The grading is done by AI.
Yes, inside the invitation. HireVue's candidate walkthrough puts practice questions before the interview itself and says you can repeat them as often as you like before you start. They show you the screens, not the kind of question your employer will ask. This simulator is for the days before: new questions, the same countdown and hard stop, and a score on each answer.
Your video never leaves your device. It is captured in your browser and stays in your browser. The audio of each answer goes once to our server, on to a speech-to-text service to be turned into text, and is then dropped. We never store it. The text is what gets graded, and the text is what we keep.
The grading is done by AI. It is labeled AI wherever it appears, because that is what it is. No person grades it, and no recruiter or employer sees it.
Employer question sets
Eight employers. Each set is built from what that employer publishes about itself (its competency framework, its values, its own candidate guidance), and each question is labeled as either quoted from the employer or derived from a published competency. Three of the eight publish actual question text on their own careers sites; those are quoted verbatim and attributed.
To be blunt about the limit: these are not the questions you will be asked. Nobody outside those firms has those. What a competency-derived set gets you is rehearsal on the dimensions the employer has told the world it cares about, which is the closest honest approximation available.
Where the simulator matches the real thing, and where it does not
- The sameA question you have not seen, a preparation countdown, one take, an answer limit that ends the recording without asking you.
- The sameNo interviewer, no reaction, no follow-up. The silence is the point, and it is the part people are least ready for.
- Different on purposeYou can retake as often as you like. A real screen may allow one take. Use the first one as the honest measurement, then retake to improve.
- Different on purposeYou get the scorecard. A real screen gives you nothing, unless the employer switched on HireVue's own candidate feedback report.
- Different, and we cannot fix itThe timings default to the common 30-second and 3-minute pattern. Your employer's may differ, and nobody publishes their settings.
- Not includedGame-based assessments. Some roles add short cognitive or personality games. We do not simulate them and would be inventing them if we tried.
What you get back
A scorecard on five dimensions with a finance and consulting rubric: structure, commercial awareness, ownership, specificity and concision. See a sample scorecard, an invented example in the real format. Alongside it, the thing nothing else in this category grades: timed delivery. Did you use the preparation window. Did you run out mid-sentence. Did you leave twenty seconds of dead air at the end. Those are the real failure modes on a one-way screen, and they are invisible when you practice by talking to yourself.
The recorded interview drills the format. When you want to be pushed rather than timed, the talking interviewer is the same product in its other mode, and it is set harder than a real interview on purpose. It does not accept the first version of an answer. It asks for the number or the moment behind a claim, and it presses again when an answer was already good. A real panel lets a good answer go. Train above that bar and the real room is the easier version of it.
The first two scored mocks are free, with no card. After that, the Interview-Ready plan gives you as many scored mocks as you want, plus the coaching: your weakest answers rewritten in your own material, why the new version scores higher, and the drills for what you missed. Runs, retakes and every question set stay free.
What this does not do
- It does not tell you what your employer will ask. Only your employer knows that.
- It does not promise you the job. Nobody honest can. What rehearsal changes is how an answer comes out when the clock is running.
- It is not for use during a real assessment. It is for preparation only. McKinsey & Company and Deloitte each publish a policy that permits AI for preparation and prohibits it during the assessment. We agree with those policies, and using this tool during a real assessment would break them.
- It is not HireVue. It is an independent practice tool that imitates the format.
What we could not find out
- Your employer's actual timings and retry settings. Configured per role and not published. Our defaults follow the most commonly described pattern, which may not be yours.
- Whether the employer scores with AI at all. HireVue's platform supports both AI-scored and recruiter-reviewed interviews, and employers do not say which they use.
- How our rubric relates to any employer's. It does not, and cannot. Ours is a finance and consulting answer-quality rubric of our own design. It is not a model of anybody's screening algorithm and no score here predicts a score there.
Read first, if you have time
Sources
Every factual claim above comes from one of these. All were read on 21 August 2026. Where a source is old or contradicts another, the page says so rather than picking the convenient one.
- HireVue, 2025 Explainability Statement (PDF) (2025). The most detailed and most current account HireVue publishes of how its scoring works.
- HireVue, FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions for Candidates. Undated. HireVue's own candidate-facing FAQ.
- HireVue, How to Take a HireVue Interview (7 October 2014). Still live, and still tells you to install Adobe Flash Player. Treat its timings as a long-standing default, not as current policy.
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