HireVue Prep Guide

At most large banks, the HireVue is the first real screen after your resume. There's no interviewer, just a camera, 30 seconds to think and 90 seconds to answer. Most candidates are cut here, usually for rambling, reading a script or looking unprepared, not for lacking talent.

The Street Ready HireVue Prep Guide shows you exactly how to handle it: what banks are really screening for, one framework that works for every question, and a practice system that gets you camera-ready in four days.

What's inside

• The Street Ready 30–90 Framework™: how to use your 30 seconds of prep and structure every 90-second answer, with timing and word-count benchmarks
• Answer templates: for behavioral, deal & market, and light technical questions
• Sample 90-second answers: worked examples, broken down second by second
• Story bank worksheet: build the 3–5 stories that cover almost every fit question
• Bank-specific questions: 57 questions reported for Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, BofA, Citi, Barclays, RBC, TD, BMO, CIBC and the elite boutiques
• 15 mistakes that get candidates rejected, and how to fix each one
• The 4-day practice system: a 10-minute daily routine and a scorecard to track your progress
• Pre-recording checklist: setup, appearance, content, delivery and mindset
• 70-prompt practice question bank for timed mock sets

Quick stats

• 13 chapters, 42 pages with a clickable table of contents
• 57 bank-specific questions + 121 practice prompts and drills
• 2025/2026 Edition

Built for

Students applying to investment banking, sales & trading, corporate banking and other early-careers finance programs in Canada and the U.S.

What you get

An instant PDF download that works on any device and prints cleanly.

Pair it with the Street Ready IB Interview QBank for the rounds after your HireVue, at joinstreetready.com.

For educational purposes only. Bank questions come from candidate reports, community submissions and public information; frameworks, examples and practice prompts are written by our team. Formats vary by bank and year, and no outcome is guaranteed. Street Ready Prep is not affiliated with or endorsed by HireVue, Inc. or any bank named.