Interviewer Interviewee and ?
Post covid, almost all hiring is done over video calls. I have had some good and bad experiences. Let me narrate an incident which was not so pleasant. A candidate had cleared a few technical rounds. I was supposed to conduct the management round. Well, I started the interview with some basic questions such as where were you born, which city did you complete your schooling, graduation? The usual icebreakers. Then I moved onto a few technical questions just to understand the team structure, the project SDLC, overall technologies used. For most of the technical questions, the candidate asked me to repeat the questions. While answering technical questions she looked down, perhaps at some screen. There was a pause before she started answering, she might be mentally scanning the answer. Then the answers didn't just follow, they flowed. The answers were theoretical as if being read from some technical source. I suspect the setup must have been like this. Candidate was facing a laptop, o...