Why You Cannot Replay Your Own Interview, and What You Can Request

Why the Platform Has No Replay Button

Because the employer controls the recording, not you. HireVue's candidate help center says that after you complete an interview you have no direct access to review your recording through the platform ¹. A candidate who wants to see a submitted recording is told to contact the hiring company, which controls the recordings and decides whether to provide access ¹.

HireVue is describing who holds the recording on its own platform, not what the law requires.

The practice round is the one exception, and it is sealed off. The same help center says an asynchronous HireVue interview offers three generic practice questions you can redo without limit ². Those recordings are never uploaded or submitted to anyone, they cannot be viewed by anyone except you, and they are gone once you move past the playback ². You can review a practice answer, and you will not be able to review the real ones ².

So on HireVue, the only answer you can replay is the one nobody will ever see.

Other platforms put the single look you get somewhere else. Radancy's screening help center, formerly myInterview, says candidates answer one question at a time, with no option to skip a question and come back to it ³. You can review each answer immediately after recording it, and you cannot go back at the end to review all of your answers ³.

That playback is the whole review, and its moment passes when you move to the next question.

Ask the Employer, in Writing

Send the request to the company, not the platform, because HireVue's own help text points you there ¹. Keep it short, factual and specific enough to act on. A recruiter who has to go looking for which application you mean may well park the message. HireVue's help text names no form for this, so the details are yours to supply.

• the role title, and the requisition number if the posting carried one
• the date and rough time you recorded
• the email address you applied from
• whether you want the recording, the transcript, or both

Ask for the transcript as well as the video, because on at least one platform the transcript is what the model read. HireVue's 2025 explainability statement says its AI relies only on what the candidate says, with no video analysis and no other audio characteristics ⁴. It states that the system does not assess facial expressions, body language, background and surroundings, or tone of voice ⁴. That is the vendor's account of its own product rather than an audit, and it covers HireVue's AI-scored interviews only.

The statement stops short of saying the video goes unwatched. The recording still exists, a person on the employer's side can open it, and what a human notices is a wider thing than what a scoring model reads.

Employers whose AI screen rejected a candidate are told they owe that candidate three things: notice that a tool was used, an accurate account of what it evaluated, and a person who can look again and fix wrong data.

The employer-side page is what a company owes a candidate rejected by an AI screen, and it shows which asks a hiring team has already been told to answer.

What an Access Right Actually Reaches

A data right can reach an automated decision, and what it yields of the tape is a separate question. Where GDPR applies, Article 15(1)(h) entitles you to be told that automated decision-making exists and to meaningful information about the logic involved, its significance and the envisaged consequences ⁵. Article 15 runs against the controller of the data, meaning the employer or agency holding it rather than the AI vendor ⁵.

The trigger is automated decision-making under Article 22(1) and (4), and Article 15(4) limits access where it would adversely affect the rights of others ⁵.

So the subsection is a route into how the decision was made rather than a promise of a video file. Ask for both in one message and let the employer separate them.

Illinois runs the other way. Its Artificial Intelligence Video Interview Act, effective January 1, 2020, gives an applicant a deletion right instead ⁶. On request, the employer must within 30 days delete your interviews and instruct everyone who received copies, the AI vendor included, to delete theirs as well, backups included ⁶. The Act is request-triggered, it sets no form and no proof of deletion, and it covers the videos rather than the scores or transcripts drawn from them ⁶.

It reaches employers who ask applicants to record video interviews and run an AI analysis of them, for roles based in Illinois ⁶.

Illinois' Act can require the file be destroyed, though it names no penalty for an employer that refuses. It cannot make anyone show the file to you.

The deletion request has a page of its own: how long a company keeps your AI interview video and whether you can force deletion. If the employer is established in the EU or EEA, what rights you have that US applicants don't covers the access side in more detail.

Write Down What You Said Tonight

Do it within the hour, because your own notes are the only version of this interview you are guaranteed to keep. Nobody has to grant you anything for that one. Write the question as you remember it, the example you reached for, the figure you quoted, and the moment you lost the thread.

Notes do the work people hope the recording will do. What you want from the tape is usually the substance: which example you used, what you left out, what you would answer differently next time.

A video of your own face gives you the delivery.

And the notes exist whether or not anyone answers your email.

Write down the questions too. HireVue's help center says the real questions cannot be seen in advance by default, because every candidate gets the same amount of time to review, prepare and respond to each one ². Once the session closes, what you remember of them, written down for your own use, is the only version you hold.

A no is a possible answer to the request, and HireVue's help text says as much: the hiring company decides whether to provide access ¹. Send it once, keep whatever comes back, and put the rest of the hour into the record nobody has to approve.

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