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Video interview prep guides by role and company

Full prep guides for the recorded video interview you actually got, by role and by employer. Each one covers the format, the questions, what good looks like, and the mistakes that cost people the next round.

Updated June 15, 2026 5 min read

These are prep guides for a recorded video interview, also called a one-way, on-demand, or asynchronous interview. You get a link, see the questions one at a time, and record your answers on your own schedule. No interviewer is on the call. A hiring team reviews the recordings later, usually before a live round.

Generic interview advice only gets you so far. A nurse, a data analyst, and a consulting candidate answer different questions, judged on different things, with different traps waiting for them. So each guide below goes role by role and company by company. You prepare for the interview you actually got, not an average of all of them.

How these guides are organized

Each role and company has two pages that work together.

  • A prep guide is the full walkthrough. It covers how to set up, the format and timer, how to talk through the work on camera, the AI-scoring reality in plain terms, what reviewers are actually looking for, and the mistakes specific to that role.
  • A question bank is the companion page: the real questions that role gets, two or three model answers in the STAR format, and the role-specific traps.

Start with the prep guide if you want the whole picture, or jump straight to the bank if you mainly want the questions. Every guide links to its bank, and every bank links back. If you want the banks on their own, the video interview questions by role index lists all of them.

Guides by role

These cover a job function rather than a single employer. The format varies by company, but the questions and what good looks like are stable for the role.

RolePrep guideQuestion bank
NursingHow to prepare for a nursing video interviewNursing one-way interview questions
Data analystHow to prepare for a data analyst video interviewData analyst one-way interview questions
Software engineerHow to prepare for a software engineer video interviewSoftware engineer one-way interview questions
Customer serviceHow to prepare for a customer service video interviewCustomer service one-way interview questions

Guides by company

Some employers run a distinctive recorded round with its own steps, scoring, and reputation. These guides go firm by firm. Candidates often go looking for the exact questions a named company asks, so each guide pairs the company format with the matching role bank.

EmployerPrep guidePairs with
Consulting (Big 4 and MBB)The consulting HireVue guideConsulting one-way interview questions
JPMorganThe JPMorgan HireVue guideFinance and accounting one-way interview questions
Delta (flight attendant)The Delta flight attendant interview guideFlight attendant one-way interview questions

If your exact role is not here yet

We add roles over time, so check back. In the meantime, three pages cover almost everyone:

You can also rehearse the real thing on the practice tool, which runs you through questions on a timer the way the actual interview does.

Before you start any of them

Whatever role you are in, three things matter more than polish. Read the first screen for the prep time, the answer length, and whether retakes are on, before you hit record. Light your face from the front and put the camera at eye level. And make your point in the first ten seconds of each answer, then stop. The role-specific guide above handles the rest.

For the wider picture of who is on the other side and why companies use this format, start with what a one-way interview is.

Frequently asked questions

What is a video interview prep guide by role?
It is a full walkthrough for the recorded video interview a specific role or employer uses. Each guide covers the format and timer, the questions that role actually gets, model answers, what reviewers look for, and the common mistakes. The pages here are organized by role (nursing, data analyst, software engineer, customer service) and by company (the consulting firms, JPMorgan, Delta).
What is the difference between a prep guide and a question bank?
A question bank is the list of questions for a role plus model STAR answers. A prep guide is the wider walkthrough: how to set up, how to talk through the work on camera, the AI-scoring reality, the timer and retake mechanics, and what good looks like for that role. Each guide here links to its matching question bank, and each bank links back to its guide.
Are these video interviews live or recorded?
Most are recorded, also called one-way, on-demand, or asynchronous video interviews. You get a link, see the questions one at a time, and record answers on your own schedule with no interviewer on the call. A hiring team reviews the recordings later, usually before a live round.
Which roles and companies are covered?
Right now: nursing, data analyst, software engineer, and customer service by role, plus firm-specific guides for consulting (Big 4 and MBB), JPMorgan, and Delta flight attendant. More are added over time. If your exact role is not here, the question banks index and the general how-to-pass guide cover the rest.