The interviewer is Vyo.
And Vyo has read your CV.

HireVue is a one-shot pre-recorded format: you read a question, get 30 seconds to prepare, record a 2-minute answer, the AI scores it after. A live AI interview is conversational. Vyo speaks the question, listens to your answer in real time, follows up where you are vague, pushes back where you are weak. Better for behavioural depth and motivational questions where the follow-up is the test. Use HireVue practice for the one-take format your firm actually uses; use live AI for the back-and-forth content you cannot rehearse alone.

Yes. At the start of every session you upload your CV (or a paste-in works too). Vyo extracts the projects, deals, internships, society work, dissertation topic, and uses them to drive the questions. Instead of 'tell me about a time you led a team' you get 'walk me through the M&A pitch you led for the Investment Society in section 2.' Generic AI mocks are gone. Every question is one a real interviewer who skimmed your CV would ask.

Vyo listens for vague claims and pushes back. Said you 'improved efficiency' without a number? Vyo asks for the number. Said you 'led the team' without specifics? Vyo asks who, how many, what you did differently to the previous leader. Said something interesting but rushed it? Vyo asks you to slow down on that point. The follow-ups mirror what senior interviewers (associates, VPs, partners) actually probe for - they have heard a thousand vague answers and are trained to drill into them. Practising with Vyo builds the habit of having the detail ready before you need it.

Yes. Three levels. Friendly: warm, encouraging, gives you slack on weaker answers, useful for early prep when you are still finding your stories. Standard: neutral interviewer, follows up on the weakest answer per question, mirrors the average front-office first-round experience. Grilling: cold, sceptical, pushes on every claim, interrupts when you ramble, asks the same question two different ways to test consistency - the mode that mirrors how Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, and the magic-circle law firms actually run later-stage interviews.

Vyo runs on Gemini Live from Google, the best-in-class real-time voice AI for exactly this job. That gives sub-second turn-taking, natural pauses, realistic interruptions (Vyo can cut in if you ramble past the natural finish of a story), context-aware follow-ups, and a voice with prosody that doesn't sound robotic. Most candidates who use Vyo for the first time say the experience is closer to a real interviewer than they expected. Some report forgetting it was AI within five minutes.

Yes. Every session produces an annotated transcript with each line of your response highlighted green (strong, keep), amber (wobbly, tighten), or red (weak, rewrite). Inline notes appear on the amber and red lines explaining exactly what is off and how to phrase it next time. On top of that you get a six-competency score (Communication, Structure, Relevance, Technical Depth, Confidence, Problem Solving), a rewritten version of your weakest answers, and a debrief written in recruiter voice noting what the interviewer would have flagged.

Vyo can run interviews calibrated to any of the hundreds of firms tracked on Intervyo. For firms with full firm Packs (Goldman, JPM, Morgan Stanley, Citi, Barclays, HSBC, Deloitte, EY, KPMG, Bain, McKinsey, Linklaters, Clifford Chance, Freshfields and more) Vyo adjusts question style, technical depth, behavioural emphasis and difficulty to mirror that firm specifically. For other firms you can still run interviews; Vyo defaults to the sector standard.

Default is 25 to 35 minutes - the length of a real first-round interview. You can also pick 15 minutes (quick warm-up), 45 minutes (full-round depth), or run them back-to-back in the Superday simulator for the stacked-pressure format. Sessions auto-save so you can pick up if you get interrupted.