Commonwealth Bank HireVue questions (2026-2027)
10 researched questions — 10 reported by real candidates or published by Commonwealth Bank. Updated August 2026.
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What the round involves: A one-way HireVue interview using questions like the 10 below; the reported setup is 1-minute prep / 2-minute answers. Commonwealth Bank configures its own timing, question count, and retakes, so the instructions in your invitation win.
Rehearse it in the free timed Commonwealth Bank mock1Tell us about your interests and why you have applied for CommBank.
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2What are some industry trends you can share with us?
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3Tell me about a time you built a strong relationship with others.
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4Tell me about a time you solved an unclear or ambiguous problem.
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5What area(s) of our Program are you interested in and why?
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6What do you think makes you a great addition to our Program?
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7What is a challenge facing the industry today?
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8Talk about a time you showed integrity.
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9Tell me about a time you had to adapt to changing circumstances.
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10What are you studying and when are you due to complete your studies?
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The Commonwealth Bank hiring process at a glance
- 1Online application — Short campus-program application (about 10 minutes) with resume and academic transcript.
- 2Online assessment — HireVue game-based assessments plus SHL components; recent candidates report doing the games first, a roughly 45-minute assessment, and an SHL personality questionnaire.
- 3Digital interview — One-way HireVue video interview with a 48-hour deadline; candidates report about 7 questions (6-9 for Global Markets Summer Analyst), around a minute of think time, answers up to about 2 minutes, and roughly 30 minutes total.
- 4Assessment centre — Virtual or face-to-face, with group activities and interviews with business leaders; Global Markets Summer Analyst replaces this with two rounds of team interviews.
- 5Offer and checks — Offers are followed by First Advantage background checks.
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For Campus Programs (graduate and summer intern), CommBank's official process has four stages: a short online application (about 10 minutes, with resume and academic transcript), an online assessment, a digital interview, and a virtual or face-to-face assessment centre with group activities and interviews with business leaders. Offers are followed by First Advantage background checks. The Global Markets Summer Analyst program is the official exception: it replaces the assessment centre with two rounds of team interviews. Candidate reports place applications and testing around July-August and interviews around September-October, with roughly six weeks average time to hire.
The digital interview is a one-way HireVue interview with a 48-hour deadline from the invite email. Candidates report roughly 7 questions for the graduate program and internship, and 6-9 for Global Markets Summer Analyst; each question is delivered as a video of a person asking it, followed by a think timer of about a minute, with answers of up to about 2 minutes and a total sitting of around 30 minutes. Retake policy varies in reports — internship candidates describe one take per question while some graduate question sets reportedly allow up to three attempts — so assume one take and treat any re-record option as a bonus. Extensions can be requested through CommBank's HR Direct line.
The online assessment stage that precedes the video interview pairs HireVue game-based assessments with SHL components. Recent graduate-cycle candidates report receiving separate emails for the games and a roughly 45-minute assessment, completing the HireVue games first and then receiving the video-interview invite, with an SHL personality questionnaire alongside; the games are described as matching graphs, remembering number sequences, and similar cognitive tasks. Candidates receive an insights report about their capabilities after the assessment. One candidate thread reports that HireVue scoring is used to prioritise which recordings human reviewers watch, with CommBank staff still reviewing — treat that as candidate-reported, not official.
Professional hires (non-campus roles) follow a different official pipeline: a Talent Acquisition resume screen, then a phone screen and/or an online SHL assessment with a 48-hour window, then virtual or face-to-face interviews and/or an assessment centre, then First Advantage background checks and offer, with contact expected within about three weeks of the role closing. Employers configure assessments per role, so professional-hire roles may see conventional SHL numerical, verbal, or logical tests rather than the campus games-plus-questionnaire combination.
About this research
- Researched questions
- 10 — 10 officially published or candidate-reported
- Typical format
- One-way video; a common setup is 30s prep + ~2 min answers. Employers configure their own timing, question count, and retakes.
- Research updated
- August 2026 · part of our evidence-labeled HireVue question bank
Best-supported scope: Australian graduate and summer-intern Campus Programs, where a one-way ("digital") HireVue interview is a core stage; professional hires follow a separate SHL-assessment-plus-interviews track.
These are questions you may encounter — paraphrased from public, dated sources. No one can guarantee the exact questions in your interview, and we never claim to.
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