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People negatively judge others who glitch on video calls, according to study (December 5) (mashable.com)
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[–] 78 points 10 months ago* (6 children)

I'm 99% certain I lost a job I was really interested in, because my internet was experiencing service degradation during the video interview and it was affecting my stream.

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  • [–] 50 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I can believe it. I imagine a potential employer would be concerned about that especially if it’s a work from home thing.

    It’s too bad really, because it’s entirely out of your control for the most part.

    I do all my work from home (free lance), but I always use wired Ethernet to minimize potential problems.

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  • [–] 22 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Ethernet won't help you, when your home connection is POS... Speaking from my own experience.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    Yeah but isn't the point?

    Dropping in and out during an interview or meeting with the customer is going to look bad either way. It's like showing up late or under dressing to the interview.

    And I say this as someone who had to buy 2 mobile Internet connections and an expensive router with dual WAN, and fail over, to compensate for my shitty home connection.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    This also happened to me. I had an interview on the phone in which I got amazing feedback. I then had my second interview online and had trouble with my audio. After that, they ghosted me.

    I understand that, in many ways, ghosting is normal. Still, that first call’s feedback made me think they wanted to hire me.

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