u/DthDisguise

I recently started the interview process with a firm through a hiring agency, and they're asking me to record a video of me answering interview questions and submit it to them pre-interview. The questions have a lot of instructions too, like "no other people should be in the video" "no personal items in the background" "answers should be a minimum of a minute long." etc. Is this normal? It seems really weird to me. I've never had a business ask me for something like this. The questions themselves are things like "tell me about a time you were in charge of a project." And "tell me about a time you had to solve an issue while a manager was unavailable."