so the saas startup i'm interviewing at runs informal screens over slack huddles instead of meet or zoom, and apart from a few hiccups like the huddle audio sometimes sounding compressed compared to a normal video call, things have been mostly fine, but one thing came up during a practice run that i need to figure out before the real round.

SO sometimes the hiring manager on the huddle uses the screen-doodle and the screen-share toggle in the same huddle session. that's no problem on principle since interviewman is listening to my mic locally, but sometimes after they have me share my screen with a notion doc open and then drop the share to "let's just chat", the slack huddle audio briefly pops because the huddle client re-routes the audio channel for the unshare.

in our previous dry run which used google meet this never happened. meet handles the share-state changes gracefully and interviewman kept transcribing from the laptop mic the whole time.

but in this huddle scenario i have not found a clean way to keep the audio steady through the share toggle. i can get the share and the unshare to both work, but during the half second of the channel re-route interviewman hears the pop instead of the question and the next answer streams from broken input.

i checked in the interviewman discord but didn't see much for slack huddles specifically. surprisingly there is almost nothing on google about this either. just hoping someone else has run into it cause my brain is fried trying to figure out if it's a slack client issue or my macbook's audio stack getting confused

hey,

did a dry run on google meet with interviewman last week, and the overlay sat outside the meet UI cleanly, transcript stayed locked, answer streaming was fast. all on a macbook running ventura.

this seems too good to be true for the upcoming round, has anyone done this in a live meet interview? or more to the point, has anyone had it WORK in a real google meet round with a startup recruiter on the other side?

would this hold up if they ask me to share my screen for leetcode and then i toggle the share off to come back to the meet grid? and if so, when meet renegotiates the webrtc track during that half second of switching, does interviewman keep transcribing or does it lose the next phrase? mock setups arent the same as a recruiter setup, but the demo sure implies it.

im interested to know if anyone of you here has actually used interviewman on a real google meet round and it held up.

thanks!

so we moved the practice mocks to bluejeans because the hospital network i'm interviewing at still runs on it, and apart from a few hiccups like the bluejeans client asking for camera permission every fresh install, things have been mostly fine, but one thing came up during a practice run that i want to figure out before the round itself.

SO sometimes the interviewer on bluejeans turns on the closed captioning feature so they can follow along while i'm walking through a chart. that's no problem from a tooling angle since interviewman is listening to my mic locally, but sometimes after they have me share my screen with a tableau workbook open and i flip BACK to the bluejeans grid view, the audio briefly hiccups because the bluejeans client renegotiates the audio session.

in our previous mock setup which used google meet this never came up. meet handles share toggles cleanly and interviewman kept transcribing from the laptop mic the whole way through.

but in this bluejeans situation i have not found a clean path to keep the audio session stable. i can get the share and the unshare to work, but during the half second of the renegotiation interviewman briefly hears nothing and the next answer streams from an incomplete question.

i checked in the interviewman discord but didn't see much bluejeans-specific. surprisingly there is almost nothing on google about this either. just hoping someone else has run into it cause my brain is fried trying to figure out if it's a bluejeans quirk or a chrome audio-stack thing on the macbook

In remote work websites, they often take extensively hard interviews to clear them and get paid is harder , is it a right choice to cheat even if it's ethical, I have a in-depth knowledge in coding which is practically implemented but the question they ask are often about old algorithms, are there consequences, let me know!!

The invite said that cameras had to be on. Fine, no problem.

I turned my camera on as soon as I joined, but the recruiter kept hers off. We finished the intros in about 4 minutes, and then she said: "Okay, I'm going to start recording now." This hadn't been mentioned before, and she still hadn't shown me her face. So I turned off my camera before the recording started. After that, I felt like the vibe changed, and honestly, I stopped caring whether I got the offer or not.

Isn't there supposed to be some basic etiquette where both sides turn on their cameras if that's what's expected? If video is required, then it's required from everyone. I'm not going to sit there being recorded on camera in front of someone who's just a voice asking me questions like I'm in some weird remote interrogation.

I got laid off last month from a backend role, so I’m back to applying again. Not fun. Every job post I open already has a stupid number of applicants, and it feels like you have to be perfect just to get past the first round now. The thing I keep running into lately is AI interview tools. Not just ChatGPT for explaining a LeetCode problem, but actual tools people use for mock interviews, live coding practice, edge cases, complexity, and getting better at talking through a solution without freezing. I’ve seen ShadeCoder mentioned a few times as more of an interview co-pilot / safety blanket kind of thing. I get why that sounds tempting, especially if you blank out during live coding. But I also don’t want to cross a line or become dependent on something I shouldn’t be using. So I’m curious how people here see it. Are AI tools basically normal interview prep now, or do they make you weaker when it’s time to actually perform?

I work in a government office. My strongest employee applied for a supervisor role that she was basically already doing on top of her regular work, and the director didn't even interview her. Then he brought in someone with no background in our field and no useful experience, and now it's expected that someone will teach this person how things work here. I'm almost certain there's some favoritism or an outside connection involved.

This employee is honestly one of the kindest, least demanding, most capable, and hardest-working people I've worked with in a long time, and she has completely lost interest. She now does exactly what's written in her job description and doesn't do anything extra, and it's obvious she's upset, hurt, and angry about what happened. She told me outright that she will not "train" the new supervisor. The new supervisor has been here for several weeks and still seems lost on basic things.

I understand why she's upset, and at first I thought maybe she needed some space to cool down. But it's been about four months, and if anything has changed, it's that she's become more discouraged, not less. It also doesn't help that the people above us haven't explained anything to her, or even to me, about why they handled things this way or what the real issue was.

How do I help her? And honestly, how do I keep the department functioning? Ever since she stopped carrying that massive amount of extra work, things have started falling apart quickly.

Has anyone dealt with a situation like this before? Can someone come back after being burned like this and made to feel undervalued? My gut tells me she's already applying elsewhere and will leave as soon as she finds something good, and with a work ethic like hers, I can't imagine that will take very long.