How HireVue is built
HireVue is built around video interviews, both recorded and live, along with assessments and scheduling tools, and it serves hiring for many kinds of roles beyond engineering.
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How SynergicHire is built
SynergicHire runs one role from the apply link to a signed decision. It reads each resume against the role's competencies, screens applicants with an AI interviewer that follows a plan you approve, and runs coding rounds in a Cursor-like IDE with a real AI assistant.
The coding round records how the candidate works with AI: what they typed, what they accepted from the assistant, and whether they tested it. Fundamentals and AI fluency are scored separately, every score cites an answer or an edit, and a named person makes every decision.
Side by side
| HireVue | SynergicHire | |
|---|---|---|
| Roles | Many job types | Technical roles, especially JavaScript and TypeScript engineering |
| Interview medium | Video | Text or voice, with a whiteboard and code workspace when a section calls for it |
| Camera | Central to the format | Not used: no camera proctoring, no facial or emotion analysis |
| Hands-on work | Depends on the assessment chosen | Server-run code in the screen and a full coding round |
| Voice audio | Check the vendor | Kept only if you turn it on |
When HireVue is the better fit
- You hire for many non-technical roles and want one interviewing tool for all of them.
- Video is an important part of how you want to meet candidates.
- You need enterprise integrations at launch.
When SynergicHire is the better fit
- You are hiring engineers and want evidence from code and technical answers.
- You prefer a screen that does not record candidates' faces.
- You want scores that cite the candidate's words, not inferences about the person.
Questions
Does SynergicHire record video?
No. Screens are typed or spoken, and voice audio is kept only if you turn it on. People rounds capture audio and a transcript, not video.
Does SynergicHire infer personality or emotion?
No. The judge is told to infer nothing about the person beyond what they said and built, and there is no facial or emotion analysis.
Which coding stacks does SynergicHire support?
Coding rounds run React (Vite), Next.js, React Native (Expo) and Node.js projects. Hands-on code in the AI screen is TypeScript. Roles built on other languages can still be screened on concepts, but not with hands-on code.
Does SynergicHire integrate with an ATS?
Not at launch. SynergicHire works as its own minimal applicant tracker: public apply links, a pipeline board, rounds, a scorecard and a recorded decision.