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HireVue vs pymetrics games
HireVue's games are short timed puzzles with right and wrong answers, where you climb levels; your employer picks a few of its thirteen. pymetrics asks you to play all twelve of its games, about 25 minutes, and has no right score: it builds a trait profile and compares it with people who do well in the role.
Side by side
| HireVue | pymetrics | |
|---|---|---|
| Games | 13; your employer picks a set (recordings show 3 to 5) | 12; you usually play all of them |
| Length | Most games 3 minutes, Pathfinder 5, Pulse 2; questionnaires untimed | About 25 minutes in all |
| How a game runs | Levels from 1 to 100: up two for a right answer, down one for a miss or timeout, with a timer bar per level | No levels; each game is a classic psychology task, several played with pretend money |
| Right answers? | Yes in the thinking games; no in Portrait, PortraitXT and Teamchat | No overall right score; some games still reward accuracy and speed |
| What is recorded | Final and highest level, levels won and lost, accuracy | Traits such as attention, memory, effort, risk taking, fairness and emotion reading |
| How the result is made | A model maps these to ability scores; the formula is not public | Your profile is compared with people who succeed in the role; the method is not public |
How to practise each
- HireVue: play the games your invite lists, then replay the one where you reached the lowest level, aiming for fewer misses. Finish with your set back to back in the mock test. More in how to prepare for HireVue games.
- pymetrics: play each of the twelve once so none of the rules or controls is new on the day, then answer as you really would. More in can you fail pymetrics?
Questions
Which one is harder?
They are hard in different ways. HireVue's thinking games get harder as you climb levels and punish misses; pymetrics is less about right answers and more about playing all twelve steadily.
Can I practise both here?
Yes. Every game of both is free to play once. A pass for one of them is $4.99 for 30 days, or $9.99 for both, paid once.
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