Also, don’t forget about your internet connection. As an interviewer, it is really hard to look past the first impression of blurry and stuttered audio/video. Check if the speed you’re paying for is reasonable and if better service is available (and affordable to you), check WiFi vs. Ethernet speeds, check if other users on your LAN are hogging your connection. If your connection is unavoidably slow, I would suggest being upfront with the interviewer that you’re aware of the situation and that you have put effort into getting the best possible result, instead of leaving me to wonder if you’re not detail oriented enough for the position.
Yes, but at least intelligible. Both Zoom and Hangouts suck and drop audio when the connection is bad. They are also seemingly excellent at dropping the most important words while keeping the most irrelevant words. :)
Clubhouse, which uses Agora for voice, actually does a much better job at this, it buffers the missed audio and then when the connection comes back, it continues playing the audio slightly faster (it uses some signal processing trickery to speed up voice without shifting the spectrum) until it catches up to the real-time stream, and avoids dropping any audio.
What I really want to see eventually, when we have the hardware to do it real-time, is sending minimal data (on the order of just text and a pose) and deepfaking the voice and video on the receiving end during short periods of bad connectivity.
The standard phone system only supports limited frequencies - it's a technological issue not an issue of good or 'bad' carriers.
You can suggest other non-standard technology which may not be available on the other end, but that defeats the point of using a normal telephone line as suggested and you might as well suggest Zoom in that case.
