As someone who has conducted several online interviews now using Zoom, I think there’s a lot of value in these comments.
All these things that have happened that we’ve chosen to prejudice against our candidates are things we all need to learn to look past.
I actively try to work around voice issues, I don’t judge people’s backgrounds or personal hygiene, if someone’s really mumbly due to sound issues, it will be brought up to give them the best possible situation.
Sure, active nakedness should be dealt with quickly and might be an instant barring; but, as someone else said, the current financial situation of a candidate is absolutely not a blocker for hire and never should be for a regular software engineer job. Everyone could have been that guy or gal stuck in a 4-person, 2 bedroom apartment on a junky Chromebook. This doesn’t make them bad developers.
All these things that have happened that we’ve chosen to prejudice against our candidates are things we all need to learn to look past.
I actively try to work around voice issues, I don’t judge people’s backgrounds or personal hygiene, if someone’s really mumbly due to sound issues, it will be brought up to give them the best possible situation.
Sure, active nakedness should be dealt with quickly and might be an instant barring; but, as someone else said, the current financial situation of a candidate is absolutely not a blocker for hire and never should be for a regular software engineer job. Everyone could have been that guy or gal stuck in a 4-person, 2 bedroom apartment on a junky Chromebook. This doesn’t make them bad developers.