How do Firstview and Hirex compare on screening, interviews, assessments and hiring workflows? This comparison looks at where they overlap, where they differ, and which needs each is built to serve.
Written by Ece Badak · Fact-checked by Barkin Kutucu
Updated · 37 primary sources reviewed
Published by Firstview. Based on the sources and scope described below.
From job post to final decision, with evidence
An ATS that supports your team's interviews
Both platforms score CVs against weighted criteria and run a native hiring pipeline. The difference is the interview: Firstview conducts it with AI, while Hirex supports the interviews your team runs.
You want the first interview done for you, not only documented. Firstview scores every CV against weights you set, interviews candidates live in English, Turkish, German, Spanish or French, and backs each verdict with the candidate's own words. It works with or without an ATS.
Your team runs its own interviews and wants an ATS with weighted CV review, notes from those interviews, calendar self-scheduling and a broad directory of assessment and HR integrations. Hirex also sells a separate Onboarding product for after the offer.
These 16 rows compare hiring tasks, not whole platforms. A Full rating means the vendor offers the feature, not that every plan includes it; the pricing section shows what each plan covers.
| Capability | Firstview | Hirex |
|---|---|---|
| Screen | ||
| Recruiter-facing weighted CV scoring | ||
| AI splitting of combined-PDF CV uploads | ||
| Contextual CV evaluation beyond keyword matching | ||
| JD-based criteria / rubric generation | ||
| Interview | ||
| Real-time conversational AI interview | ||
| Adaptive follow-up questions | ||
| AI interview designer / custom questions | ||
| Assess | ||
| Technical / coding evaluation | ||
| Soft-skill / competency evaluation | ||
| Decide | ||
| Criterion-level evidence & score rationale | ||
| Structured candidate report | ||
| Human interview co-pilot / note-taker | ||
| Operate | ||
| Native customizable hiring pipeline without a separate ATS | ||
| Calendar integration / scheduling | ||
| Candidate communication automation | ||
| Hiring analytics dashboard |
Full and Partial describe what each vendor's cited public sources show; every source carries its audit date in the source list. Not published means the reviewed sources did not establish the capability; it does not mean the capability is absent.
The scorecard is the index. These five sections explain what the differences mean in a hiring workflow.
Firstview carries your CV criteria into the interview
Firstview scores every CV against weighted criteria you set, checks dealbreakers first, and shows the evidence behind each score. It suggests criteria from your job description, and a combined PDF of CVs splits into individual candidates automatically.
Hirex generates criteria from the job description, lets recruiters set High, Medium or Low weights and required qualifications, and shows the reasoning and CV evidence for each criterion. It imports separate CV files in bulk; its public sources do not show splitting one combined PDF.
On CV screening the two are close. The difference is what comes next: Firstview uses the same criteria in the AI interview and all the way to the decision.
Firstview interviews each candidate live, in their own language, with follow-up questions
Tell me about a project that changed direction.
Customer feedback challenged our initial plan, so we reworked the approach.
How did you decide which feedback to act on?
Firstview runs live, two-way voice interviews in the browser, in English, Turkish, German, Spanish or French. It asks follow-up questions based on each answer, answers the candidate's own questions about the role, and suggests role-specific questions your team can edit.
Hirex offers one-way video interviews built from custom question templates, and scorecards for the interviews your team runs. Its public sources do not show an AI that interviews candidates live or asks follow-up questions based on their answers.
If you want an AI to hold the first interview and probe each answer, Firstview does that; Hirex's interview tools are recorded answers and support for your team's own interviews. Judge the follow-ups in a demo, on one of your own open roles.
Firstview tests skills in the conversation; Hirex connects separate tests
Firstview evaluates competencies and role-specific knowledge inside the interview itself, using 30+ competency frameworks. Technical roles get an in-depth conversational interview and a detailed technical report instead of a coding test.
Hirex connects HackerRank coding and technical tests, which need an active HackerRank account, and lists personality, aptitude and psychometric assessment options alongside its own interview scorecards.
If you need coding tests or psychometrics, Hirex connects to providers that offer them, under your own accounts with those providers. If you want to know how a candidate thinks about the job, Firstview assesses it in the same conversation as everything else.
Firstview judges every candidate on one set of criteria, from CV to decision
“I brought the two teams together to agree on the priorities.”Example candidate answer
Aligned teams around shared priorities
Each Firstview verdict links to the candidate's answer and the moment they gave it, and unclear cases go to a person, never to an automatic rejection. Firstview Notetaker also joins your team's own interviews on Zoom, Google Meet and Teams and files the notes on the candidate, so AI and human interviews end up on one record.
Hirex explains each CV score with criterion-level reasoning. Its Notetaker records Zoom, Google Meet and Teams interviews in English and Turkish and writes editable notes showing which criteria were covered; its help pages say it does not score or rank candidates.
Both write up your team's video interviews. Firstview adds an evaluated AI interview before them, so the hiring manager sees the candidate's answers and the team's notes on one record.
Firstview runs the pipeline and messages candidates on email and WhatsApp
Firstview includes the pipeline board, calendar scheduling, email and WhatsApp messages, and hiring analytics, so a team can run hiring without a separate ATS.
Hirex offers editable pipelines, self-scheduling through Google and Microsoft calendars, stage-triggered emails and hiring dashboards. Its integrations directory lists assessment, HR and video-interview providers such as HackerRank, Codility, Personio, Kolay IK and Hireflix.
Both run hiring without a separate ATS. If you want to reach candidates on WhatsApp, Firstview has it built in; if you need connectors to HR and assessment tools, Hirex lists more of them.
Firstview builds its rules into how it evaluates: it never analyzes faces, video is never part of the evaluation, and a person makes every hiring decision. Hirex states that its ISO 27001 certification is in progress and SOC 2 Type II is planned.
Firstview does not publish a price list; it sells subscription plans and starts with a pilot on one of your own open roles. Hirex lists monthly Starter and Launch plans with a 30-day trial, but AI matching sits in custom-priced Enterprise and AI evaluations use credits, so compare the total for the plan that includes AI matching.
Decide by how your team wants to run hiring.
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Yes. Both score CVs against weighted criteria and run a native hiring pipeline. Firstview adds live AI interviews in five languages and carries the same criteria into the interview; it also messages candidates on WhatsApp. Hirex offers more test and HR connectors and publishes its prices.
Its public sources do not show one. Hirex documents one-way recorded video interviews and notes for the interviews your team runs. Firstview runs live voice interviews in English, Turkish, German, Spanish or French and follows up on each answer.
Both join Zoom, Google Meet and Teams calls. Hirex's Notetaker writes editable notes in English or Turkish and, according to its help pages, does not score candidates. Firstview Notetaker fills your team's notes or scorecard template and files it on the candidate, next to the AI interview.
Hirex, through providers: HackerRank coding tests with an active HackerRank account, plus personality, aptitude and psychometric options. Firstview evaluates competencies and technical knowledge inside the interview, without separate tests.
Firstview does not publish a price list; it sells subscription plans and starts with a pilot on one of your own open roles. Hirex lists monthly Starter and Launch plans with a 30-day trial, but AI matching sits in custom-priced Enterprise and AI evaluations use credits, so compare the total for the plan that includes AI matching.
No. Firstview never analyzes faces, and video is never part of the evaluation. Integrity rules apply while the interview runs: the whole screen is shared, the camera stays on and virtual cameras are blocked.
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