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/u/Fedginald
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Kind of tired of Zoom interviews. If the position is in commuting distance, what's the problem with me coming to you?
For me, someone with an existing job where taking a non-work zoom call is suspicious, and LOUD AS HELL roommates at home, this means finding a place so I can do a job interview. Don't like doing it in my idling car because it's a waste of gas and I feel like it doesn't look professional, and good luck finding somewhere with decent free wifi from a parking lot.
I overall just find it to be more of a pain in the ass from the candidate's perspective. Let alone, I feel like you don't actually gauge what people are like over zoom. Zoom has always been an awkward shitshow and I feel like it's preferred primarily by people who talked in Linkedin-speak. You know what I mean
Thoughts?
Edit: zoom interviews also allow candidates and companies to not take interviews as seriously, thus people scheduling and doing tons of interviews that don't go anywhere. This is a problem more prevalent currently than it was
Edit 2: I think zoom calls give this false veil of professionalism much more effectively than phone calls. It makes it such that managers are able to schedule tons of interviews they know won't go anywhere, as well as scheduling an insane amount of tasks without having to be present to see how it's affecting working employees. Yes, people always did phone interviews in their car before zoom. Don't you think videochatting with someone with a laptop in your car is a lot more suspicious than someone just being on the phone? I think the business structures around zoom are for making things more convenient for managers instead of employees who need to physically work. If I was running a business that required physical presence, I'd rather a prospective employee see the actual functionings of the business, as well as being able to better gauge them as a personality. Hell, being able to get to the site on time should be the first requisite, not a system people have to jump through that begs extraneous questions of class. Who do you think will have an easier time with a zoom interview, the guy who is already in an office or the guy they expect to be on the jackhammer at each possible interview time?
Edit 3: I think the structures around remote work and videocalls and etc are classist in ways that are not thought about. For an economy projected to rely heavily on manual labor here soon, and many people are transitioning to from office jobs, this is concerning
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For me, someone with an existing job where taking a non-work zoom call is suspicious, and LOUD AS HELL roommates at home, this means finding a place so I can do a job interview. Don't like doing it in my idling car because it's a waste of gas and I feel like it doesn't look professional, and good luck finding somewhere with decent free wifi from a parking lot.
I overall just find it to be more of a pain in the ass from the candidate's perspective. Let alone, I feel like you don't actually gauge what people are like over zoom. Zoom has always been an awkward shitshow and I feel like it's preferred primarily by people who talked in Linkedin-speak. You know what I mean
Thoughts?
Edit: zoom interviews also allow candidates and companies to not take interviews as seriously, thus people scheduling and doing tons of interviews that don't go anywhere. This is a problem more prevalent currently than it was
Edit 2: I think zoom calls give this false veil of professionalism much more effectively than phone calls. It makes it such that managers are able to schedule tons of interviews they know won't go anywhere, as well as scheduling an insane amount of tasks without having to be present to see how it's affecting working employees. Yes, people always did phone interviews in their car before zoom. Don't you think videochatting with someone with a laptop in your car is a lot more suspicious than someone just being on the phone? I think the business structures around zoom are for making things more convenient for managers instead of employees who need to physically work. If I was running a business that required physical presence, I'd rather a prospective employee see the actual functionings of the business, as well as being able to better gauge them as a personality. Hell, being able to get to the site on time should be the first requisite, not a system people have to jump through that begs extraneous questions of class. Who do you think will have an easier time with a zoom interview, the guy who is already in an office or the guy they expect to be on the jackhammer at each possible interview time?
Edit 3: I think the structures around remote work and videocalls and etc are classist in ways that are not thought about. For an economy projected to rely heavily on manual labor here soon, and many people are transitioning to from office jobs, this is concerning
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