JPMorgan Chase interview, from HackerRank to HireVue.

JPMorgan publishes the first steps in each posting and the kinds of assessment in its careers FAQ. The format of the recorded interview and the questions in it come from candidates and are marked as reported. The most common complaint is waiting: candidates describe weeks or months of silence after the HireVue with no rejection or update.

JPMorgan's careers FAQ describes the recorded stage as an on-demand interview: questions appear on screen and you record your answers. Candidates who took it in 2026 reported two questions from a pool of about eight, around 30 seconds to think and up to two minutes to answer each, and nothing technical. Whether you can re-record is not confirmed: one thread asks whether candidates who used retries were rejected, and JPMorgan's FAQ says many assessments can't be retaken for a set period. Plan for one take. These are the questions candidates quoted, from the 2026 India campus cycle; the US pool may differ.

• Tell me about a time you had to simplify a large amount of information to communicate a few key ideas to a co-worker.: Pick one real case with a lot of detail, such as a report, a dataset or a codebase. Say who needed it and why, what you cut, the two or three ideas you kept, how you presented them, and what the person could do afterwards. That fills two minutes without padding.
• Imagine you had to present complex information to someone with limited knowledge of the subject. What steps would you take?: This one is hypothetical, so answer in steps: find out what they already know and what they need to decide, start with the conclusion, use one example or comparison, check they followed, then offer the detail. Close with a short real example where you did this.
• Tell me about a time you recognised a gap in your skills or knowledge.: Choose a real gap that mattered to a piece of work. A strength dressed up as a weakness won't convince anyone. Spend most of the time on what you did to close it, then show it closed: something you built or delivered with the new skill.
• Tell me about a time you were not able to fully honour a work or school commitment you had made.: Own your share plainly. The part they listen for is what you did once you knew it would slip: who you told, how early, and what you did to limit the damage. End with what you do differently now.
• Tell me about a time you had to work with someone whose way of working was different from yours.: Describe the difference without blaming the other person. Explain how you found a way to work together, such as agreeing who owned what or changing how you communicated, and what the shared result was.
• Tell me about a time you solved a new problem by using knowledge from a previous experience.: Make the link explicit: name the earlier experience, the new problem, and exactly what carried over. A technical example works well here, such as reusing a debugging approach from a class project at an internship.
• The format, and what goes wrong: With about 30 seconds to think, decide your example first and your ending second, then speak. The common failure in recorded interviews is a short answer that stops after a minute, leaving the reviewer with little. Record yourself on a phone with a two-minute timer before the real one, and check the camera, sound and light.

Some candidates say the HireVue and the HackerRank challenge are judged independently. JPMorgan hasn't confirmed this, so treat both as if they count.

The recorded questions candidates reported in 2026 keep returning to the same few things, and the 2027 postings add one more.

• Explaining something complex simply. Two of the reported questions ask how you made a lot of information clear to someone with less background
• Working with people unlike you. Candidates were asked about a colleague whose way of working differed from theirs
• Owning your gaps and commitments. Reported questions ask about a gap in your skills and a commitment you couldn't keep
• Reusing what you know. One question asks how earlier experience helped you solve a new problem
• Using AI tools with judgment. The 2027 postings say experience with AI coding tools, and checking and refining what they produce, will set you apart

Most of these come straight from candidates who took the recorded interview in 2026. You get two of them, one take each, with about two minutes to answer, so each answer needs a real situation, what you did and how it ended. The coding themes cover the HackerRank challenge and the live rounds.

Levels.fyi figures for software engineers, read on 8 October 2026. The US Analyst package is about $103K base and an $8K bonus; across 7,611 US submissions the median is $145K. New York pays a little more at each level. Internship pay is not covered here.

1. Apply early. JPMorgan fills its program classes on a rolling basis, and its FAQ suggests applying to no more than three summer internship programs.
2. Do the HackerRank challenge as soon as it arrives. The posting says your application won't move until it's done, so a late test is a lost place.
3. Practise timed coding problems on arrays, strings, hash maps and sorting before the challenge, under a clock, in the language you know best.
4. Prepare one true story for each reported HireVue theme: simplifying information, a gap in your skills, a commitment you missed, a colleague who worked differently, and reusing past knowledge.
5. Record yourself answering two of those questions with 30 seconds to think and a two-minute timer, then watch it back. Aim to use most of the two minutes.
6. Treat the HireVue as one take. Whether retries exist is unconfirmed, and JPMorgan says many assessments can't be retaken for a while.
7. In the US, check the Code for Good dates and deadlines for your nearest event: it's the 2027 internship route, and the Columbus deadline is 9 October 2026.
8. Expect to wait. Candidates report weeks or months of silence after the HireVue, so keep applying elsewhere while you wait.
9. Be ready to talk about how you use AI coding tools and how you check their output. The 2027 postings name it as an advantage.

This guide covers JPMorgan Chase's early-career technology hiring: the Software Engineer Program and the Data & AI Program. For management and leadership roles the loop is similar but the bar shifts to people, delivery and strategy, so pair it with the leadership interview prep hub. The bar for your exact role comes from the role-by-role guides, and the prep that actually transfers is spoken, so run a mock interview before the real one.

Also interviewing at Optiver, Stripe or Coinbase? Their guides follow the same format, from the first screen to the offer.

• 01JPMorgan Chase, How we hire: FAQsthe assessment types (structured live interviews, on-demand recorded interviews, virtual skills assessments), how the recorded interview works, that many assessments can't be retaken for a set period, and the advice to apply to no more than three summer programs (read 8 October 2026)
• 02JPMorgan Chase, Software Engineer Program (full-time)the program, and experience with AI tools and validating their output as an advantage (read 8 October 2026)
• 03JPMorgan Chase, 2027 Software Engineer Program, full-time, United Statesthe US locations, the required HackerRank coding challenge and rolling admissions (posted 3 August 2026)
• 04JPMorgan Chase, 2027 Software Engineer Program, summer internship, UKHackerRank, then an email invitation to a virtual Superday
• 05JPMorgan Chase, Code for Good Hackathon, 2027 Summer Internship, United Statesthe two-day hackathon for a nonprofit, the route to the internship, and the Brooklyn and Columbus dates and deadlines
• 06JPMorgan Chase, Code for Good hackathonsthe countries where Code for Good runs
• 07Reddit r/Btechtards, JPMC HireVue round (2026)candidates report about 30 seconds to prepare and up to two minutes per answer, and quote two questions
• 08Reddit r/Btechtards, JPMC HireVue (2026)a candidate reports a pool of eight questions with two given to each person
• 09Reddit r/Btechtards, JPMC OA and HireVue (2026)candidates describe a short interview, non-technical team-based questions, and the coding test and HireVue judged independently
• 10Reddit r/Btechtards, JPMC HireVue questions (2026)candidates quote the questions on presenting complex information, an unkept commitment and a colleague with a different working style
• 11Reddit r/Btechtards, JPMC HireVue question (2026)the question on solving a new problem with knowledge from a previous experience
• 12Reddit r/Btechtards, JPMC HireVue retries (2026)a candidate asks whether people who used retries were rejected; retries are not confirmed
• 13Reddit r/jpmorganchase_india, silence after HireVue (2026)candidates who completed the HireVue report no shortlist, rejection or update
• 14Reddit r/Btechtards, 2027 SEP India full-time (August 2026)candidates quote a rejection email saying business needs had changed and the 2027 India full-time position would not be filled
• 15Levels.fyi, JPMorgan Chase Software Engineer, United Statesthe level 502 Analyst package and the US median across 7,611 submissions (read 8 October 2026)
• 16Levels.fyi, JPMorgan Chase Software Engineer, New Yorkthe New York Analyst and Associate packages (read 8 October 2026)

Interview processes change. This reflects widely-reported and sourced conditions as of 2026 — confirm specifics with your recruiter, and treat it as a map rather than a guarantee.