There is no official list of HireVue interview questions: the employer writes or picks them, not HireVue. Most are the questions of any first-round interview: tell me about yourself, why this role, "tell me about a time" behavioral questions, "what would you do" situational questions, and questions about the job's core skills. Every candidate for the same job gets the same questions, you cannot see them in advance, and HireVue says most interviews have 5-8. To practice, prepare a handful of true stories, shape each with STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result), and rehearse them out loud against a timer. For prep time, retakes and AI scoring, see our HireVue guide.
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From HireVue's own help pages and FAQ, checked November 3, 2026. The format details (prep time, retakes, AI scoring) are in our HireVue guide.
| Who picks the questions | The employer; HireVue only provides the software |
|---|---|
| Same for everyone? | Yes, every candidate for the same job gets the same questions |
| See them in advance? | No; HireVue blocks access until you start |
| How many | Most video-based assessments have 5-8 questions |
| Free practice on HireVue | Three generic practice questions, unlimited, never shared |
| What reviewers look for | Job skills plus competencies like communication, conscientiousness, problem solving, team orientation and initiative |
| Keywords? | No: HireVue says it weighs the whole context of an answer, not certain words |
| Best structure | STAR for behavioral questions; answer first, then one example, for the rest |
These are the types that come up most in first-round video interviews, with a structure for each. Your employer's exact questions will differ.
Often the first question, sometimes worded as "Introduce yourself" or "Walk us through your background." It sets the tone for the rest of the video.
Tip: Use present, past, future: what you do now, one or two things that led here, and why this role is next. Three or four sentences.
"Why do you want this job?" or "Why do you want to work here?" The reviewer is checking that you know what the job is and chose it on purpose.
Tip: Name one specific thing about the role or company, connect it to something you have done, and say what you want to contribute.
"Tell me about a time you worked through a disagreement," "a time you failed," "a time you led without authority." HireVue says its AI-scored questions are built to draw out behavioral answers tied to one competency each.
Tip: Use STAR. Keep Situation and Task to a sentence or two each, spend most of your time on Action, and end with a Result, with a number if you have one.
"A customer is upset about a late order. What do you do?" These test judgment in the job itself, and HireVue lets employers play the situation as an audio or video clip.
Tip: Say what you would do first, then why, then how you would check it worked. If you have handled something similar, add it in one line.
Questions about the core skills in the job description: a tool you use, how you approach a common task, or a concept to explain simply.
Tip: Explain it as you would to a smart colleague outside your field, then give one concrete example from your work or studies.
"What is your greatest strength?" "What is a weakness you are working on?" "Where do you see yourself in a few years?"
Tip: Pick a real strength the job needs and prove it with an example. For a weakness, pick a real one that is not core to the role and show what you are doing about it.
Tell me about yourself (customer success role): "I'm a support specialist at a software company that makes scheduling tools for clinics. I handle about forty tickets a day, and I'm the person my team sends the tricky billing cases to. Last year I wrote help articles for our most common billing questions, and those tickets dropped by about a third. I'm applying here because I want to move from fixing problems to helping customers get value before problems start, which is what your customer success team does."
Tell me about a time you disagreed with a teammate (STAR): "Situation: on a class project last spring, a teammate wanted to rebuild our app from scratch two weeks before the deadline. Task: I was the project lead, so I had to keep us on schedule without shutting him down. Action: I asked him to list the three problems he wanted to fix, and we agreed to fix the worst one in our current code and save the rest for after the demo. I took over his testing tasks so he had time. Result: we shipped on time, the demo ran faster, and he rebuilt the rest over the summer."
Tell me about a time you failed (STAR): "Situation: in my first month as a shift lead at a coffee shop, I scheduled two new hires alone on a Saturday morning. Task: the schedule was mine. Action: when the line went out the door, I came in, worked the register, and afterward apologized to both of them. Then I made a rule for myself: every shift gets at least one person with three months of experience. Result: we never had another short-staffed rush while I ran the schedule, and the owner asked me to train the next shift lead."
A customer says their order is late and wants a refund. What do you do? "First I'd apologize and look up the order while they're with me, so I have the facts. If it's our mistake, I'd offer the fix our policy allows, a refund or a faster replacement, and tell them exactly when it will happen. Then I'd note what went wrong so the team can spot a pattern. In my last job I handled a run of late orders this way and found most came from one shipping zone, which we flagged to the warehouse."
Why do you want this role? "Your team builds the tools nurses use at the bedside, and I spent two years as a nursing assistant watching how much time charting takes. I'm finishing a data analytics certificate, and this analyst role is where I can use both: I know what the work looks like on the floor, and now I can measure it. I want to help make that time shorter."
List the 4-5 skills and qualities it stresses, such as customer focus, teamwork or attention to detail. Those are what your questions will probe.
Cover a success, a failure, a disagreement, leading or influencing others, learning something fast, and helping a customer or user. One good story can answer several questions.
Write a line each for Situation and Task, a few lines for Action, and a Result with a number if you have one. Use bullet points, not a script.
Record yourself on your phone or laptop and watch it back. HireVue suggests practicing out loud so you can make your points clearly within the time limit.
OphyAI's AI mock interview asks role-specific questions, follows up, and scores your answers on Communication, Technical, Problem Solving and Confidence, with a transcript you can review.
They are generic, so they will not preview your real questions, but they let you check your camera, light and sound and get used to the timer.
HireVue says its video assessments measure job skills and "soft" competencies such as communication, conscientiousness, problem solving, team orientation and initiative, chosen for each role by organizational psychologists. Each question is designed to draw out one competency, so a strong answer stays on that point.
HireVue says it looks at the whole context of an answer, not certain words, so stuffing an answer with buzzwords does not help and a clear, specific example does. Its FAQ advice is to answer naturally and back up what you say with real examples from school or work.
Your answers also go to people. The hiring team watches the recordings, and HireVue's research says reviewers can often tell when someone reads a script. Rehearse until you know your stories, not your exact words.
Lists of past questions circulate, but the employer picks its own questions and can change them, and HireVue blocks access to them before you start. HireVue also checks for answers copied between candidates: in its own study, under 1% of 1,000 responses were flagged, and those candidates scored poorly anyway. Use lists like ours to practice question types, not to memorize answers.
It can help you brainstorm and tighten your own stories, but a script written by AI is a weak plan. HireVue tested ChatGPT on its AI-scored questions and found the answers scored around average and sounded generic, and it says human reviewers can often tell when someone reads a prepared text. Use AI to get feedback on stories that are yours, then rehearse them out loud.
Interview Copilot in the desktop app has a One-way Interview mode that reads each question as it appears on your screen, or when you press Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + A, and hears video and audio questions through system audio. It shows a suggested answer in a window hidden from screen sharing and recording. Your webcam still records you for every answer; the window is hidden from screen capture, not from the camera.
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The OphyAI desktop app for Mac and Windows shows live answers in a floating window that is hidden from screen sharing and screen recording, so it stays private even when you share your whole screen.
Practice comes first. OphyAI's AI mock interview asks questions like the ones above out loud, follows up on your answers, and gives you a scored review with a full transcript, grounded in your resume. Run your stories through it until they come out clearly. The Free plan covers one 15-minute session.
For the interview itself, Interview Copilot in the desktop app is the live option. It hears a question that plays as a video or audio clip through system audio and suggests an answer in a floating window that macOS and Windows leave out of screen sharing and recording. Its One-way Interview mode reads each written HireVue question as it appears on your screen, or when you press Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + A. Each session uses 15 credits.
HireVue records your webcam for every answer, so the reviewer sees your face and where you look. OphyAI is hidden from screen capture, not from the camera.
Hears the interviewer through system audio, with no virtual audio cable or extra setup.
The desktop app has a One-way Interview mode for HireVue and Spark Hire style interviews. It reads each question as it appears on your screen, or when you press Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + A, and suggests an answer in the overlay. If the question plays as a video, it answers from what it hears.
The answer window is excluded from screen sharing and recording by the operating system (macOS window sharing set to none, Windows display affinity set to exclude from capture). Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams see what is behind it, not the window.
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Hiding a window from screen share does not hide it from a camera pointed at your screen, someone in the room, or proctoring software that inspects running apps.
HireVue does not write the questions; the employer does. Most first-round HireVue interviews mix an introduction ("Tell me about yourself"), motivation ("Why this role?"), behavioral questions ("Tell me about a time..."), situational questions ("What would you do if...") and questions about the job's core skills. Some add typed or multiple-choice screening questions.
HireVue says most video-based assessments include 5-8 questions and take under 20-30 minutes. Candidates report anywhere from 3 longer questions to 8 shorter ones.
No. HireVue gives you three generic practice questions that you can redo as often as you like, and nobody else sees them. They are for getting used to the camera and timer, not a preview of your employer's questions.
The employer sets the time limit and the screen shows it before you record; recording stops when time runs out. HireVue's tips say most on-demand interviews ask for an answer in just a few minutes. Aim to finish your Result before the clock does, rather than filling every second.
Yes, for behavioral questions. HireVue's AI-scored questions are designed to draw out behavioral answers, and its FAQ says to back up your answers with specific examples. STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) keeps the example clear and puts the focus on what you did.
No. HireVue says its video assessment considers the whole context of a response, not just certain words, and that its AI understands meaning regardless of the exact vocabulary. A specific, honest example beats a list of buzzwords.
Use present, past, future in three or four sentences: what you do now, one or two experiences that led here, and why this role is your next step. End on the role, since that is what the reviewer is hiring for. See the example above.
Use HireVue's own practice questions to learn the format, record yourself answering common questions on your phone, and run OphyAI's AI mock interview: the Free plan covers one 15-minute session with scored feedback.
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