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why is interviewing on zoom awkward?

• mhh__ 6y ago
  My perspective: If it goes well for the first few moments it's all good, I had a semi-interview that basically turned into a 4hr chat about programming, foreign policy etc (I suspect the boredom contributes). If it goes badly, not only am I being watched and inspected by potentially more than one person, I can also see myself. I hate the sound of my own voice, I really hate the look of my own mouth let alone face.
  • akamaka 6y ago
    I imagine that Youtubers would be the winners in this new interviewing world, since they’ve spent so much time getting comfortable with their on-camera appearance.
• akamaka 6y ago
  Good question. In my case, I’ve always been good at in-person interviews. I’ll be nervous at first, but over the course of the interview, I can read the body language of everyone in the room and quickly get comfortable, and by the end of a successful interview everyone shakes hands and comes away feeling like I’m nearly part of the team. On Zoom, it starts off the same way, but never gets better. I can’t really tell if anyone is really satisfied by my answers, and I’ll either ramble on, or end with “I’m not really sure I answered your question...” At the end of the interview, they’ll invite me to ask some questions of my own, and I try to go in depth into understanding how they approach collaborating remotely. I feel like the answers are sometimes evasive and I come away wondering if my questions are too intrusive. Maybe a lot of teams have disagreements about this, and I shouldn’t ask them openly?
• throwawayboise 6y ago
  I find everything about Zoom awkward. Plus it's caused meetings to explode. "Let's hop on Zoom" vs. finding and booking a conference room and physically going there. Barriers like that tend to reduce low-value meetings at least a little.