HireVue built the one-way video interview: your questions, recorded answers, scored later. SealHire runs a live AI interview instead — Alex asks the questions you require, follows up on the answers in real time, and hands your team a report where every score links to the moment in the recording. Here is the difference, dimension by dimension, and when each one is the right call.
HireVue describes itself as "science-backed AI screening, assessments and video interviewing" that helps teams "verify skills and hire faster at scale" (hirevue.com, 19 September 2026). Its core interview format is the on-demand, one-way video interview: candidates record answers to preset questions and the recordings are reviewed and scored afterwards, alongside a library of assessments. hirevue.com
HireVue: On-demand video interviews: candidates record answers to preset questions on their own time, with live interviewing also offered.
SealHire: A live, adaptive AI interviewer (Alex) who asks and follows up in real time, by voice, on video, whenever the candidate opens the link.
HireVue: Your question set, presented as fixed prompts that each candidate records against.
SealHire: Your must-ask questions, covered verbatim inside a conversation, plus the follow-ups the role brief calls for.
HireVue: A recording cannot pursue an answer; the original question has to do all the work.
SealHire: Every answer can be probed for the decision, the constraint and the result, the way a specialist would.
HireVue: AI scoring and a library of assessments, "science-backed" by its own description.
SealHire: A verdict per skill from the role rubric, each backed by the candidate’s own words and linked to the moment they said them.
HireVue: Recorded answers and scores.
SealHire: The recording, a timestamped transcript, evidence per skill, integrity notes and a recommendation they can argue with.
HireVue: Records alone against prompts.
SealHire: Talks to an interviewer; can practise the format first with a free mock interview and share it with employers.
HireVue: Demo request through sales.
SealHire: Free pilot, no card: set up one role from its job description and send the first link in minutes.
If your programme already runs on recorded answers to a fixed script at enterprise scale, needs a large assessment library, or is built around asynchronous review of thousands of submissions, HireVue is a mature choice and the format may be exactly what you want.
If the first-round interview is where your process is slow or inconsistent, if hiring managers want to hear the candidate make the claim rather than read a score, and if you need to control what is asked without giving up follow-ups, SealHire is built for that stage.
For the interview stage, yes. Both let candidates interview on their own time without scheduling. HireVue’s core format is the one-way recorded video; SealHire runs a live AI interview with follow-up questions and an evidence-linked report.
In a one-way video interview the candidate records answers to fixed prompts and nobody can ask a follow-up. In a live AI interview the interviewer listens and probes each answer, so a vague claim gets pursued and the report can show the specific evidence behind each skill.
Yes. The hiring manager’s intake lists the questions that must be asked. They go into the interview brief verbatim, Alex covers every one, woven into the conversation, and the report scores each of them alongside the role’s skills.
No. SealHire produces evidence: a recording, a transcript, verdicts per skill with the quotes behind them, and integrity notes. Your team reads it and decides.
Free pilot, no card. Set the brief, list the questions that must be asked, send the links, read the evidence.
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