General Motors HireVue interview questions
15 researched questions — 15 reported by real candidates or published by General Motors. Updated August 2026.
1Tell me about a time when the actions you took were resisted or blocked and how you managed the situation.
Officially publishedPast behaviorGM's own published example of a competency question.
Practice this in the mock2Tell me about yourself.
Reported by multiple candidatesPast behaviorReported independently by multiple candidates.
Practice this in the mock3Tell me about a time you worked with a team, including a time you met unexpected challenges.
4Why do you want to work for General Motors?
5Tell me about a time when you had a disagreement with a coworker.
Reported by multiple candidatesPast behaviorReported for engineering and the TRACK program.
Practice this in the mock6Tell me about a time when you had to deal with a difficult coworker or team member.
Reported by multiple candidatesPast behaviorReported independently by multiple candidates.
Practice this in the mock7Tell me about a time you achieved your goals.
Reported by a candidatePast behaviorOne candidate reports this for a Design Release Engineer role.
Practice this in the mock8Tell me about a time when you were persuaded to take action but chose not to.
Reported by a candidatePast behaviorReported by a candidate; current applicability may vary.
Practice this in the mock9Tell me about a time you took a risk. What happened?
Reported by a candidatePast behaviorReported by a candidate; current applicability may vary.
Practice this in the mock10Describe a challenging project you worked on, and describe a time you failed.
11Entry-level and new-graduate technical funnel: expect roughly three cognitive mini-games alongside the video questions, covering pattern matching, timed arithmetic and short-term memory
12TRACK rotational program: a HireVue assessment with personality and quantitative-thinking components, with those who pass moving to a short HR phone screen
Reported by a candidatePast behaviorReported by a candidate; current applicability may vary.
Practice this in the mock13Controls and systems engineering: one candidate reports a technical rather than behavioral HireVue, with four multiple-choice questions on time complexity and max heaps and six on PID controllers
Reported by a candidatePast behaviorReported by a candidate; current applicability may vary.
Practice this in the mock14Software and platform roles: topics such as microservices versus monoliths and Azure DevOps have been reported inside the video stage
Reported by a candidatePast behaviorReported by a candidate; current applicability may vary.
Practice this in the mock15Experienced, senior and staff engineering: a Codility coding assessment is repeatedly reported instead of the video-plus-games format
Reported by a candidatePast behaviorReported by a candidate; current applicability may vary.
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The General Motors hiring process at a glance
- 1Online application — Apply on GM's careers site; the internship page states a status update within about two weeks or sooner.
- 2HireVue on-demand video (entry-level and new-grad) — Pre-recorded behavioral questions, most often three, with roughly 15-30 seconds prep and 2-3 minutes to answer; a redo is commonly reported.
- 3Cognitive mini-games (reported 2020-2021, entry-level only) — About three short pattern-matching, arithmetic and memory games reported inside the same HireVue sitting; not reported for experienced roles.
- 4Recruiter phone screen — GM's toolkit describes an initial recruiter conversation of approximately 30 minutes; reports differ on whether it comes before or after the video.
- 5Structured panel interview and offer — Competency-based STAR interview with one or more leaders, typically scheduled for two hours, then offer with drug screen and background check.
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Take the General Motors mock interviewHow the General Motors hiring process works
The General Motors hiring process starts with an online application on GM's careers site, which describes four stages: Apply, Assess, Interview and Offer. GM says that after applying you are screened for qualifications and "may be asked to complete an assessment" — deliberately vague language that is the only official hook for anything automated. For internships, GM states applicants can expect a status update within two weeks or sooner of submitting.
For entry-level, new-graduate and intern technical roles, candidates consistently report that the assessment stage is a one-way, pre-recorded HireVue video interview rather than a live call. Reported configurations vary and are almost certainly set per requisition: three questions is the most common count, with four and five also reported; preparation time is reported as either 15 or 30 seconds; answer time as either two or three minutes. A demo or practice question before the scored set is reported, as is at least one redo, though accounts differ on whether that means one retake, two chances, or up to three re-records, with the last recording submitted. Questions are typically delivered as on-screen text, and one candidate reports a pre-recorded GM employee reading them aloud. Reports also disagree on where the video sits: some describe it before the recruiter phone screen, others after, so treat the ordering as varying by role.
In the 2020-2021 entry-level funnel, candidates describe roughly three short cognitive mini-games arriving inside the same HireVue session as the video questions — puzzle and pattern-matching, easy-to-hard addition and subtraction, and a memorization element, with one report on the TRACK rotational program describing personality and quantitative-thinking components. GM has never named an assessment vendor, and no source ties GM to any third-party game provider, so the games are best described as HireVue-delivered without asserting more. Importantly, every game report is from 2020-2021 and no candidate account from 2023 onward mentions games, so this stage may no longer be running; a commenter on a more senior requisition in 2020 already described video questions with no games at all.
Later rounds are live and human. GM's toolkit describes a roughly 30-minute recruiter phone screen covering how your skills relate to the role, followed by a structured interview built on competencies "validated for each position", typically scheduled for two hours and sometimes split into a technical hour and a behavioral hour with two or more engineers or leaders. GM instructs candidates to answer in STAR format and evaluates against its published values, behaviors and competencies. Scheduling for most roles runs through Ev-e, GM's AI scheduling assistant, on the careers site or by SMS. An offer is followed by a drug screen and background check. GM says the whole process takes "a couple weeks"; aggregated candidate data suggests closer to a month. Experienced and senior engineering candidates report a different route entirely, centered on a Codility coding assessment, and coding challenges are also reported for some new-grad software roles.
About this research
- Researched questions
- 15 — 15 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: Entry-level, new-graduate and internship technical hiring (engineering, IT and software), where a one-way recorded HireVue interview is repeatedly reported. Experienced and senior engineering roles run a different track built around a Codility coding assessment. Skilled-trades and manufacturing hiring is undocumented and should not be seeded.
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Sources reviewed
- General Motors — How We Hire (official careers site)
- GM Interview Preparation Toolkit PDF (rev. 03/23/22)
- GM Early Careers — Internship Program process page
- Blind — GM Design Release Engineer HireVue thread (Jan 2022)
- Blind — GM new hiring process: 5 video questions + 3 games (Jun 2020)
- Taro — GM Entry Software Developer interview experience (Oct 2020)