computer science

HireVue

HireVue is a computer science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand HireVue rather than just read about it. In short: Hirevue is an artificial intelligence (AI) and human resources management company headquartered in Sandy, Utah. Founded in 2004, the company allows its clients to conduct digital interviews during the hiring process, where the job candidate interacts with a computer instead of a human interviewer.

Key takeaways

HireVue belongs to computer science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect HireVue to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of HireVue from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Hirevue is an artificial intelligence (AI) and human resources management company headquartered in Sandy, Utah. Founded in 2004, the company allows its clients to conduct digital interviews during the hiring process, where the job candidate interacts with a computer instead of a human interviewer. The company has received considerable media coverage related to its use of AI to analyze interviewees' facial and verbal data during the interview process.

History

Founding and early history The company was founded by Mark Newman in 2004, then a 20-year-old undergraduate at Westminster College. Newman also served as the company's chief executive officer (CEO). The company is headquartered in Sandy, Utah, near Salt Lake City. An artificial intelligence company, Hirevue has been described as a human resources technology or "human capital management" (HCM) company, and has been noted as a "pioneer in the field." To help facilitate long-distance job interviews, the company originally sent candidates webcams. The company offers its clients the ability to conduct one-way job interviews during a hiring process. Job applicants are prompted the same questions through Hirevue. By 2012, Hirevue's clients included Nike, Starbucks, Walmart, Geico, and Hasbro, among others. These clients were signed to annual subscription plans with Hirevue. In 2012, Forbes staff writer Susan Adams noted that "the typical Hirevue interview lasts 12 minutes and has just four questions, with about three minutes to answer each question." Interviewees are also allowed to see each question prior to responding; a practice question as well as interview tips are also provided. For Hirevue's clients, the interview setup allowed for recruiters to spend less time on scheduling candidates and more time on evaluating them. That August, the company acquired CodeEval for an undisclosed sum, allowing Hirevue to add programming challenges when hiring developers. By this time, Hirevue's CEO was David Bradford. Later that same month, the company announced it raised a $17 million Series C round led by Investor Growth Capital; along with an expansion of its debt facility, Hirevue raised a total of $28 million when including what it raised during its B and C rounds.

Use of artificial intelligence and company growth In 2013, the company began using artificial intelligence to screen interviewees. Both proprietary voice recognition software and licensed facial recognition software are used by Hirevue's Insights program. The company's Hirevue Insights program scans applicants' verbal and facial gestures and cues, matching them with skills employers seek in given roles. Aside from facial gestures, Hirevue also assesses an interviewees' tone, vocabulary, and "candidate empathy". All of these analyzed data points are then used to generate an "employability" score for a candidate, which is ranked versus other applicants. Hirevue's AI is able to refine its accuracy over time given new data due to machine learning. By 2013, the company had 140 employees. Noted by TechCrunch to still ship out webcams to job candidates if needed, the company's software was available on desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones. That October, Hirevue announced it raised $25 million during its Series D round, led by Sequoia Capital. The company would integrate its products into platforms and websites such as LinkedIn and Salesforce.com. Hirevue stated it facilitated three million interviews in 2015, up from 13,000 five years prior. By 2017, Kevin Parker was the company's CEO. The company's chief technology officer (CTO) Loren Larsen stated the company experimented with giving candidates limited and unlimited attempts to answer interview questions before moving onto the next, with Hirevue ultimately opting to provide unlimited attempts to candidates. Several concerns about Hirevue's facial analysis were raised by interview candidates and AI researchers, which led to the company removing its facial analysis function from candidate assessments in early 2020. While the company maintained no bias resulted from its use of such technology, Parker conceded it "wasn't worth the concern" to keep. Later that September, Hirevue integrated with Microsoft Teams, allowing for interviews to be offered on the Teams platform to its user base. In October, Hirevue acquired AllyO, a chatbot technology startup. In 2022, Anthony Reynolds succeeded Parker as the company's CEO. In May 2023, Hirevue acquired one of its competitors, Modern Hire. On the acquisition, Reynolds stated that both companies "have a fundamental basis or a foundation in science and I/O [industrial-organizational] psychology." At the time, Hirevue had around 700 clients and 400 employees, while Modern Hire had around 450 and 200, respectively. In January 2024, Reynolds stepped down from his position as CEO and was succeeded by Jeremy Friedman. In March 2026, Hirevue acquired San Francisco-based AI interview automation company Hireguide to expand its conversational hiring technology capabilities. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with HireVue

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what HireVue claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In computer science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to HireVue before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about HireVue ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of HireVue

In research: HireVue appears in computer science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses HireVue in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: HireVue is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2004 establishments in Utah, American companies established in 2004, Artificial intelligence companies, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for HireVue outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study HireVue in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what HireVue means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain HireVue out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is HireVue in simple terms?

Why does HireVue matter?

Because it connects several computer science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study HireVue?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on HireVue.