What Happened: The Acquisition Timeline
Modern Hire was a structured-assessment and video-interview product, distinguished by its virtual job tryout methodology rooted in industrial-organisational psychology. It competed directly with HireVue and Sapia in the pre-hire assessment and interviewing space.
HireVue, the video-interviewing company, acquired Modern Hire in May 2023. The deal combined Modern Hire's assessment science with HireVue's interviewing and hiring-automation platform, and HireVue stated its intention to bring the two product sets together into a single integrated platform over time.
By 2025-2026, Modern Hire has been discontinued as a standalone product; review platforms such as TrustRadius now list it as discontinued, and its capabilities are being consolidated into the HireVue platform. HireVue has said it will continue supporting existing products during the migration. For buyers, the practical reality is that Modern Hire is no longer a product you procure new; the path forward is HireVue or a competing platform.
Legacy Modern Hire Product Strengths
The original Modern Hire product had genuine merit that is worth acknowledging before assessing the acquisition risk:
- +Virtual job tryout methodology: interactive job simulations allow candidates to experience realistic job scenarios before assessment. Backed by I-O psychology research on predictive validity.
- +Structured interview design: the platform enforced structured interview formats with consistent questions, reducing interviewer bias at the human interview stage.
- +Technical role assessments: strong library of role-specific assessments for knowledge-worker and technical roles.
- +Legacy bias audit: Modern Hire published an annual independent bias audit meeting AEDT requirements before the acquisition.
Post-Acquisition State (2026)
Material procurement considerations
- ! Modern Hire is discontinued as a standalone product; you are buying into, or being migrated onto, the HireVue platform. Confirm which Modern Hire capabilities carry over and which are deprecated.
- ! Confirm bias-audit coverage on the HireVue platform (including any AEDT bias audit required for NYC hiring) before deployment, rather than relying on Modern Hire's legacy audits.
- ! Get the migration roadmap and timeline in writing: which features move to HireVue, when, and what happens to integrations and historical assessment data.
- ! Pricing and packaging now follow HireVue's model; re-quote rather than assuming legacy Modern Hire terms carry forward.
The practical picture for 2026: existing Modern Hire functionality is supported during the migration into HireVue, but it is no longer an independently evolving product. Buyers should treat any Modern Hire renewal as a decision about committing to the HireVue platform, and evaluate it on that basis alongside competing platforms such as Sapia and VidCruiter.
Should Existing Customers Renew? Evaluation Framework
The honest recommendation: do not renew without running a parallel evaluation of 2-3 alternatives. The questions to get answered before a renewal signature:
Has the HireVue platform published a 2025 or 2026 AEDT bias audit covering the capabilities you use?
Required for NYC hiring compliance. If not published for the features migrated from Modern Hire, either request it formally or plan your own independent audit before renewal.
What is the committed migration and product roadmap for the next 24 months?
Get it in writing: which Modern Hire features move to HireVue, on what timeline, and which are deprecated. Vague roadmap language in enterprise contracts is a red flag.
What are the support SLAs for integration maintenance during and after migration?
If your ATS releases an update that breaks the integration, what is the contracted response time?
What are the data-portability terms on contract exit?
If you switch vendors after renewal, how do you extract your historical interview data? In what format? Within what timeframe?
Is multi-year early-termination possible?
If the migrated product does not meet your needs, can you exit the contract early? Under what conditions and at what cost?
Options for Existing Modern Hire Customers
The default path is HireVue, since Modern Hire is being consolidated into it; the question is whether to accept that migration or evaluate a competing platform at renewal.
If you need: Stay on the migration path
HireVue
As the acquirer, HireVue is where Modern Hire's assessment and interview capabilities are being consolidated, with deep Workday/Oracle integration and a published bias audit at scale. Confirm feature parity for the specific Modern Hire capabilities you rely on.
If you need: Virtual job tryout depth
Sapia.ai (conversational) or VidCruiter (structured)
Sapia offers chat-based conversational assessment with strong I-O methodology and published bias audit. VidCruiter offers structured video interview with mandatory scorecard design.
If you need: Technical assessment depth
CodeSignal or HackerRank
For roles where coding or technical assessment was the primary Modern Hire use case, CodeSignal or HackerRank are dedicated platforms with better assessment libraries. See /for-technical-interviews.