Ask HN: One-way live video interview tips?

Is this a regular job, contract job, or remote job?

For a regular job, when I interview for a position, typically, I ask a lot of questions, as I assume most people do. The primary objective is to determine if it is somewhere you would be happy with.

For a contract job, that is less important, you are a hired gun to get the job done.

IMHO I would go with the attitude: I do not want your POS job if this is how you treat me. If you get an offer, then turn it down, and tell them they are too rude to work for.

This sounds terrible. If you decide to participate, please share your experiences (if you can <3)

good luck !

If you have the means, I suggest declining this interview. This is disrespectful to the candidates and speaks to a lack of care on the part of the hiring company.

That said, I recognize that you may not be in a position to decline, so I’ll give the best advice I can. The closest I have done is a set of coding exercises while on the phone with a recruiter, but they knew nothing about the coding exercises - they were basically just on the call to supervise. I wasn’t recorded on video, but the text editor and audio were recorded. It was intensely uncomfortable and felt like I was talking to myself the whole time, and I ended up stumbling all over myself trying to explain with zero feedback, trying to ask clarifying questions to the recruiter and getting “I’m sorry, I don’t know” every time. The only thing I can think of that would have really helped is to practice monologueing while doing hackerrank problems.

This type of interview seems tremendously disrespectful to the candidate. You can tell a lot about any company that thinks this is a remotely acceptable thing to subject a candidate to.

Unless you are very interested in the particular company, or your situation is dire, I would suggest declining this sort of "interview."