And today another finding in the series: “humans are stupid”.
I’m 99% certain I lost a job I was really interested in, because my internet was experiencing service degradation during the video interview and it was affecting my stream.
I can believe it. I imagine a potential employer would be concerned about that especially if it’s a work from home thing.
It’s too bad really, because it’s entirely out of your control for the most part.
I do all my work from home (free lance), but I always use wired Ethernet to minimize potential problems.
Ethernet won’t help you, when your home connection is POS… Speaking from my own experience.
No shit
This also happened to me. I had an interview on the phone in which I got amazing feedback. I then had my second interview online and had trouble with my audio. After that, they ghosted me.
I understand that, in many ways, ghosting is normal. Still, that first call’s feedback made me think they wanted to hire me.
We shouldn’t even need video. It’s just a waste of bandwidth unless you are showing some slides for a presentation or something.
Agreed, glad my company doesn’t require that. No one wants that.
I like seeing people. It’s already unsocial working from home.
Engineer checking in. I don’t need to see my coworkers. I grab lunch with the ones I like.
I don’t mind seeing people. I don’t want to be seen.
Yeah I just don’t want to be observed while I work. It distracts me. This is true even though I don’t work from home. Maybe this is part of my cptsd, but either way, I find myself far more productive when I’m able to work behind closed doors
Have you ever seen a slide that was not a waste of time?
Funny how the second coming of faceless AI doesn’t need to video call when it’s being tasked with making unicorns and rainbows that everyone loves to praise and take credit for, and then ask for a quick fix to get it over the line when it fails at a task.
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Yeah, I believe it. People negatively judge on anything.
Well yeah they’re haunted.
“Video” calls? I regularly talk shit to my mother when her flip phone cuts out. She used to yell at me for putting her on speaker (because it degraded the quality of the call to her ears) until I got an iPhone, then it magically stopped being an issue (better microphones)? Now I put her on speakerphone on my MacBook. She doesn’t even notice, and has said it makes me sound clearer. Like seriously, get a smartphone (you can even put it in zoom/old person mode, both Apple and Samsung are real good for that), and pair it to a good speaker with good mics and noise cancellation (or AirPods Pro or Galaxy Buds Pro or the Pixel ones) and it’s like you’re in the same room.
But yeah, it sucks to be thought of in a negative light because your tech isn’t working at its best.
Have you heard of the concepts of Internet bandwidth and compression? This article isn’t talking about poor quality microphones or cameras. You could have the best camera and microphone in the world, but it won’t do you any good on dial-up, low speed “broadband”, or unreliable connection to the Internet.
