
Worse, at times I was looking away – which might have suggested to HireVue that I was reading from a script.

And I was moving my head a lot and often not looking straight at the camera. For example, I was using hand gestures to emphasise my points, but some of these movements weren’t even in the frame. I was acting as though I was talking to someone in person. As I did it over and over again, I recognised that I sometimes looked silly, even if my answers were technically correct. In advance of the interview, I used my laptop’s camera to record myself answering questions. And even if you knew, replicating that would be difficult.īut you can prepare for this aspect of the Goldman Sachs internship interview by at least making sure you avoid making what you perceived as mistakes. To some extent you need to leave this to chance – it’s impossible to know the finer details of what type of speech and body language Goldman is after. Rather frighteningly, HireVue also records and analyses the way you speak and move during the interview to work out whether your traits correspond to those of Goldman’s top employees. As you probably know, it’s all done online without human interaction and involves talking into a webcam as the system records your answers to pre-set questions. I wouldn’t have seen off all these competitors had I not got through the first major hurdle: the HireVue interview.Ī HireVue interview, even for a tech-obsessed millennial like me, is a strange beast.


There are fewer internships on offer here than in New York or London, but there are still thousands of people applying: local students, mainland Chinese students based here, and Hongkongers studying abroad. Getting a Goldman Sachs internship is, of course, very difficult – but perhaps even more so in Hong Kong. This is a great result for me, as Goldman is the bank I want to work for the most. I’m a finance student in Hong Kong, and I've landed a Goldman Sachs internship.
