Hah. All good insights. W/r/t the whiteboard thing - one of my interviews recently used google jamboard, and my input was lagging by like 30 seconds. I was wri

Hah. All good insights. W/r/t the whiteboard thing - one of my interviews recently used google jamboard, and my input was lagging by like 30 seconds. I was writing a solution, and talking through it, and one of the interviewers started trying to help by starting a solution directly on top of mine. So apparently I just sounded like I was talking about hypothetical code. No harm, really - the interviewer was embarrassed, we moved on. But it was pretty awkward not inhabiting the same visual reality, and thus building divergent mental models of the interaction. I live with a therapist, who confirms that their rapport building is encumbered via video chat. She's incredibly warm and emotive, and I think this compensates: her content is presumably affirming, and her tone (which comes through the thin walls) just oozes authenticity and positive regard. Certainly rapport building isn't dead, but the relative value of the parameters seem to have shifted. You've inspired me to go read one of the guides on videoconferencing lighting I keep seeing. Hopefully to let my, um, inner beauty and competence shine through.