Fidelity HireVue Interview Questions and How to Answer Them
Fidelity Investments uses a recorded HireVue interview as an early screen for internships and technology roles. These are the questions candidates report, grouped by type, with how to answer them.
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How the Fidelity Investments HireVue works
Fidelity Investments HireVue questions candidates report
9 questions from Fidelity Investments HireVue interviews. Prepare a story for each type rather than a script for each question.
Motivation and fit
Why Fidelity?
Why finance?
Fidelity gets a lot of applicants. What do you think sets you apart from the rest?
LEAP Software Engineer
What is your biggest achievement?
Behavioural
Describe a time when you ran into difficulty during a project. How did you solve the issue?
LEAP Software Engineer
What do you do when you have a busy week?
Software Engineer intern
Technology and ways of working
Fidelity is big with agile. Tell us about a time you worked on a project using agile or, if you haven’t, what you know about agile.
LEAP Software Engineer
What’s a time you worked to complete a project in Java?
LEAP Software Engineer
Talk about your experience with Java.
Software Development
How to answer Fidelity Investments HireVue questions
Anchor “Why Fidelity” in its mission
Fidelity states its goal as “to strengthen and secure the financial wellbeing of our customers”, through businesses serving individuals, employers, wealth management firms and institutions. Say which of those customers your role serves, and give one reason that work matters to you.
Make “what sets you apart” about the role
One reported question opens by saying Fidelity gets a lot of applicants. Pick one thing that is specific to you and useful in the job you applied for, such as a project, a skill or a work experience, and prove it with a result rather than listing qualities.
Have an agile example ready
Candidates for engineering roles report being told Fidelity is big with agile and asked for an example. If you have one, say how the work was split into short cycles, what you owned in each and how feedback changed the plan. If you do not, explain what you know and where you have used something like it, such as weekly check-ins on a group project.
Technology roles: prepare one Java project story
Two reported questions ask about Java: your experience with it and a project you completed in it. Choose one project and cover what it did, the part you built, one problem you hit and how you fixed it. The same story often answers the project-difficulty question too.
Show how you handle a full week
For the busy-week question, walk through a real week: how you listed the work, what you did first and why, and what you told people when something had to wait.
Tips for recording your answers
- Check whether your invite allows a retake. Candidates report one take in recent years, so treat each answer as final unless told otherwise.
- Use the practice questions if they are offered, to check camera, sound and framing.
- With up to 30 seconds before recording starts, note three words: situation, action and result.
- You may have up to three minutes, but a clear 90-second answer is enough. Stop once you have given the result.
- Look at the lens, not your own picture, with the camera at eye level and the light in front of you.
Frequently asked questions
How many questions are in the Fidelity HireVue?
Fidelity does not publish a number. Candidates report between five and eight, depending on the role and year.
How long do you get to answer Fidelity HireVue questions?
Candidates report up to 30 seconds before recording starts and up to three minutes to answer each question.
Can you retake answers in the Fidelity HireVue?
It varies. Candidates in 2020 and 2021 report one take per question, while a 2018 report describes two attempts and practice questions. Your invite says which applies.
Does the Fidelity HireVue have technical questions?
For engineering roles, candidates report questions on Java and agile alongside behavioural ones. Coding and technical questions such as object-oriented concepts come in the later interviews.
Is the Fidelity International video interview the same?
No. Fidelity International is a separate company that hires in the UK, Europe and Asia through its own careers site, with its own process. This page covers Fidelity Investments in the US.
Practise for the Fidelity Investments HireVue
Our AI interview practice uses the same one-way format: five questions on screen, 60 seconds to prepare, then up to a minute to answer on camera. Choose the finance focus and the questions lean towards finance, with feedback on relevance, clarity and structure and on what finance assessors look for, such as commercial awareness and integrity. You also get a model answer to your weakest question.
The questions are ours, not Fidelity Investments’s. Start answering before the 60 seconds are up to match a shorter thinking time, and since practice lets you re-record, do one session in a single take.
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