HireVue games: practise all 13
HireVue's assessment is a set of short games. Most last two to five minutes. Your invite lists the ones your employer chose; practise those first.
Thinking and memory games
NumerosityPick the number tiles that make the target with the operation shown: add, subtract, multiply or divide.3 minutes · 1 free gameDigitspanWatch a sequence of digits or letters appear one at a time, then type it back. Later it has to go in reverse.3 minutes · 1 free gameDisconumbersNumbered circles light up one after another. Add up the lit ones and pick the total from four answers.3 minutes · 1 free gameShapedanceFind every card with the same pattern of shapes, even when it is turned or spinning, then press Compare.3 minutes · 1 free gameFlashbackA stream of ring patterns. Say whether each one matches the one shown one, then two, then three steps back.3 minutes · 1 free gamePathfinderSlide the blocks into the empty spaces until one unbroken path joins the two fixed ends.5 minutes · 1 free gamePuzzleStudy a picture, then slide its tiles back into place. In the real test this game is called Puzzlepicture.3 minutes · 1 free gameSingularityA crowd of shapes with one odd one out. Tap the shape that differs.3 minutes · 1 free gamePulseThings appear one after another, faster and faster. Tap only when you see a red dot.2 minutes · 1 free game
Behaviour and work-style games
E-MotionsA face changes from neutral into an expression. Name the emotion.4 minutes · 1 free gameTeamchatChat with colleagues at awkward moments at work and pick the reply you would send.No clock · 1 free gamePortraitPairs of statements about how you work. Pick the one that is more like you.No clock · always freePortraitXT50 statements about how you work. Rate each from Strongly Agree to Strongly Disagree.No clock · always free
How the real test runs
- Each game opens with a short how-to-play animation you can replay, then a Start button.
- The top of the screen shows a pause button, the level, and the game clock. A yellow bar shows the time left on the current level.
- A right answer flashes green and moves you up two levels; a miss or a timeout drops you one. Level 100 is the top.
- HireVue's researchers describe recording final level, highest level, levels won and lost, and accuracy. How these become your result is not public.
- You can take a break between games.
Sources: recordings candidates posted of NATO, PwC and Shell assessments; Leutner et al., Game based assessments of cognitive ability in recruitment, Frontiers in Psychology 2023 (authors then at HireVue); HireVue's 2019 announcement of its emotional intelligence games.