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> - The biggest and most obvious is that they don't have a functioning webcam that clearly shows who they are. If I encounter this, the interview ends immediate

> - The biggest and most obvious is that they don't have a functioning webcam that clearly shows who they are. If I encounter this, the interview ends immediately. I get this. I also just did like 10 rounds of interviews and between google meets, zoom, teams, phone calls, I would say there was a 50% failure rate of somebody on the call having a non working webcam or another issue. I actually missed an opportunity at a job because the HR lady was bizarrely inflexible. I called, no answer, teams, couldn't let me in because of org permissions, yada yada. At some point I had rescheduled for the third time and just replied "look, I don't know what the issue is, but I will be happy to do an in-person interview". Never got a call back. So... tech problems do exist. I am on a phone call with a client right now who spent 10 minutes trying to get a screen share working. What can I do?

Philip-J-Fry 4y ago
Tech problems exist on the employer's end, that's all on them. If their Teams permissions don't allow someone external to join, then they aren't fit to be even trying to do remote hiring. In 2022 there's virtually no excuse for a non-functional webcam on the candidate side though. If they don't have a dedicated camera, then most laptops come with one as standard nowadays. If they don't have a laptop, then they at least have a basic smartphone. You'd have to be incredibly unlucky to have no webcam, no laptop and no smartphone. Yes, people without smartphones exist. But they are an absolute minority.
- xboxnolifes 4y ago
  More than that, equipment is the cheap part of a developer. The company can easily provide any of this.
- calvinmorrison 4y ago
  I was, and I mean, three minutes late to the meeting after having issues with teams (the issue was actually microsoft thinking I was still apart of my former company though I was signed out), and the lady left the call! I think an incompetent HR person prevented me from getting the job. I almost emailed the CEO out of frustration with the process

Philip-J-Fry 4y ago

Tech problems exist on the employer's end, that's all on them. If their Teams permissions don't allow someone external to join, then they aren't fit to be even trying to do remote hiring. In 2022 there's virtually no excuse for a non-functional webcam on the candidate side though. If they don't have a dedicated camera, then most laptops come with one as standard nowadays. If they don't have a laptop, then they at least have a basic smartphone. You'd have to be incredibly unlucky to have no webcam, no laptop and no smartphone. Yes, people without smartphones exist. But they are an absolute minority.

xboxnolifes 4y ago
More than that, equipment is the cheap part of a developer. The company can easily provide any of this.
calvinmorrison 4y ago
I was, and I mean, three minutes late to the meeting after having issues with teams (the issue was actually microsoft thinking I was still apart of my former company though I was signed out), and the lady left the call! I think an incompetent HR person prevented me from getting the job. I almost emailed the CEO out of frustration with the process