HireVue AI screening interviews

HireVue interviews every applicant by voice and gives the price by quote

What an applicant and a recruiter each see

The applicant takes the interview by voice, at any hour. HireVue’s platform sends invitations by email, WhatsApp, text message or a web widget. It sends reminders by text. The AI asks questions and records the answers. It adds follow-up questions when an answer needs more detail. HireVue screens every applicant, not only a shortlist. It speaks French, English, Spanish, Portuguese and other languages. Recruiters also receive a language score aligned to CEFR, the European scale for language levels.

You do not write the interview from nothing. The AI suggests questions and answer marking guides from your job description. Your team edits and approves the questions, the voice and the permissions. You set the criteria for each role, level, location and team. HireVue then scores each response against those criteria, shows whether it meets them and gives the reason. Every score links back to what the candidate said and to your marking guide. Scores follow behavioural anchors, which are written examples of what a strong and a weak answer look like.

After the interviews, recruiters see a list ranked for review before they call anyone. They choose which candidates move on from screening. The scores appear in your applicant tracking system, and the results flow back to the candidate record. In most connections a recruiter can open the full result from a link inside the system they already use.

HireVue has pre-built connections with Workday, SmartRecruiters and PageUp. The Workday connection is certified and has more than 140 live customers. SmartRecruiters customers can switch theirs on themselves. HireVue also integrates with SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting, Oracle Recruiting Cloud and Taleo, iCIMS, Greenhouse and Avature. The Oracle connection has more than 100 live customers, and the SAP SuccessFactors connection has 50. HireVue also connects with Eightfold, a talent intelligence platform. Some partners add extra automation in certain subscription packages.

HireVue also sells scheduling, code challenges and interview summaries. It also has a careers-site assistant that guides visitors to jobs. Our page on HireVue in the AI interview agents guide covers the same company from the interview side.

What HireVue does about fairness and cheating

Results from HireVue and its customers

AdventHealth ran a 90-day pilot of HireVue’s AI screening for nursing roles. AdventHealth makes about 25,000 hires a year. In the pilot, applicants moved 79% faster from application to manager review. The target was 70%. Recruiters saved over $40,000 of screening time, which is about eight hours per hire. Over 54% of applicants chose AI screening, and 41% of candidates finished their interviews outside business hours. AdventHealth’s hiring managers also struggled to keep up with interviews once screening volume rose.

HireVue’s AI saves recruiters 10 hours a week, or 30 minutes on every screen. HireVue puts the completion rate of its conversational AI interviews at 86%. In HireVue’s feedback, 78% of candidates prefer AI screening to a human screen. In HireVue’s early-career and graduate data, high scorers are over three times as likely to get high performance ratings. Ask HireVue whether that result holds for AI Interviewer.

When HireVue is worth a demo

• Your applicant tracking system is one HireVue connects to.
• Each role draws more applicants than your recruiters can call.
• You hire in more than one language and want a language score in the profile.
• You can accept a firm order and an annual price rise.

HireVue builds the platform for hiring needs from mid-market to enterprise. If none of these four lines fits, look at the alternatives.

There is no public price, and leaving takes planning

HireVue shows no price. Its master agreement bases fees on the scope and parameters in your order. They include headcount, uses and hires. If you go over those limits, HireVue can invoice you automatically. Standard Success support comes with every subscription at no extra cost. Premier Success Gold and Platinum are upgraded support packages. They may add customer success help, professional services and psychology services each year.

Public US government records show what some buyers committed to pay for HireVue. A US Department of Defense subscription through EC America runs from 18 June 2026 to 17 June 2027 at $450,465.52. An earlier Defense award through EC America, from 18 December 2023 to 17 June 2026, was $837,542.35. A US Department of Health and Human Services subscription for 3 December 2024 to 3 December 2025 was $212,312.37. A Defense pilot of 100 licences in August 2022 was $178,628.40. A Homeland Security award through EC America was $3,996,237.45, for 30 September 2024 to 29 September 2027. Ask HireVue whether AI Interviewer is part of a subscription like these.

HireVue stores your data for two years from first storage while you subscribe. After that, it may delete it under its policies. Once the contract ends, HireVue has no duty to keep storing your data or materials. You can export through the application programming interface (API). A different method may be available on terms, and for a fee, set in your order. HireVue deletes all your customer data on written request. The hiring company sets how long HireVue keeps interview data, and HireVue purges it when that period ends.

Eight questions for HireVue

1. What does AI Interviewer cost on its own, and which headcount, use and hire numbers set that price? Good answer: A written yearly price, with the three numbers that set it.
2. Will you limit your use of our interview recordings and data to running our interviews? Good answer: Yes, written into the order, and covering data you already hold.
3. Does the uptime promise cover AI Interviewer, and what do we get if it falls short? Good answer: Yes, stated in our order, with a named remedy.
4. Which audit covers the models behind AI Interviewer, and can we publish it? Good answer: A named outside auditor, a date, and the full figures for roles like ours.
5. Which automation rules are switched on in our account, and who on our side can change them? Good answer: A short list of named people, and a record of every change.
6. In which country do OpenAI, ElevenLabs and Google Cloud handle our candidates’ voices and answers? Good answer: A named country for each, and a line we can give a candidate who asks.
7. Can we leave early if AI Interviewer does not work for us? Good answer: A written exit right, or a pilot with a fixed end and no automatic renewal.
8. How do our recordings, transcripts and scores come out in bulk when the contract ends, and what does it cost? Good answer: A file format, a time window and a fee, all written into the order.

Alternatives to HireVue

Humanly, HeyMilo, Apriora, Metaview, Talview and CodeSignal also run AI screening interviews.

Humanly is built for hourly, frontline and high-volume hiring. It covers engagement, screening, scheduling and AI interviews, and it has its own applicant tracking system. HeyMilo interviews and screens every applicant by voice, video, text message and forms, in more than 20 languages. Its case studies run from teams of 1 to 10 people up to an enterprise. Apriora, which sells under the name Alex, handles outreach, screening, interviewing, verification and scheduling. It keeps a person involved at every step.

Metaview runs a short voice interview and assesses answers against a marking guide. Only a human decides who moves on or is rejected. Talview’s Ivy runs structured, role-specific conversations. Talview holds a SOC 2 Type II report, an independent audit of its security controls. CodeSignal publishes its plans. Build costs $79 a month, billed annually, and suits companies under 100 employees. Grow costs $479 a month, billed annually, and suits companies under a few hundred.

Another route is to keep phone screens with your own recruiters. Count the screens you run in a month. At 30 minutes each, that is the time HireVue’s AI would save.