The head of the IT department suggested conducting online interviews with HR with the camera turned off to avoid prejudice. What IT professionals and recruiters think

Roman Horban, Data Analytics

But well… you shouldn’t turn your life into an antisocial or some kind of encapsulated one. We don’t go to the shops anymore, because there is an emotionless delivery person in a balaclava, we can’t look people in the eye, all the support chats and so on are mostly translated into text… and then we have anxiety, disorders, etc. By nature, we need to feel other people’s emotions, we are social creatures and any steps contrary to this only worsen the general social situation.

Serhiy Chechuy, Game Developer

Yeah, the camera is needed to: «See that the candidate is real. Read nonverbal signals. Check if the candidate has entered the lighting system» A few moments later: «Damn, Alina, have you seen that Dima. He doesn’t have much experience, but he’s so COMFORTABLE!!! Aaaaah!!! His Instagram isn’t in the resume?!»

Andriy Sartek, Front-End Developer

I saw that Grisha, a complete match on the rocks, but you’ll have to see his gloomy face on every match, it’s better to take Dima — he’ll learn.

Dima Vishnyakov, Senior Front-End Developer

I like your train of thought. You can also turn off the sound. Because voice is also a discriminatory factor. And communicate only through an AI translator.

Yevgeny Martianov, Full stack web developer at Beaufort Solutions Inc.

What nonsense. And for whose sake should I be so beautiful?

Artem Degtyar, Senior Python Developer at Intellias

A little more and you will be able to look and sound whatever you want, thanks to neural networks. And then this «need» will lose its meaning, you just have to wait

Dmitry Buryanov, DevSecOps

And why not include it, when you understand that this job is not really for you, then to some question you can answer that one of the duties includes working as a webcam model.

Oksana Yaroshevich, HR Business Partner

Not everyone, of course, but many HR professionals use a tool like profiling, and for that you need to see a person.

Ksenia Sverdlik, Head Of HR and Recruitment

Well, once a candidate came to an interview sitting in his kitchen with unwashed dishes in the background, and he was wearing a T-shirt. What can I say here?

Victoria Marchenko, Recruiter and HR

My primary goal as a recruiter is to select candidates based on their skills in accordance with the stated job profile. I think it is the same for most of my colleagues.

Vira Tkachenko, HR Generalist at Elevate

If the interview is conducted with the option to turn on the camera, then for both parties it will be at least strange not to turn on the camera.

Anastasia Makovetska, HR Manager at Smart Solutions

Okay, but let’s not wonder why customers are shocked by the appearance of a company representative who came to the negotiations not in a very adequate appearance and cannot sit still.

Yevheniya Bereshchuk, Full-cycle Technical Recruiter

To avoid seeing the candidate’s eyes running across the screen while reading the answers.

Georgy Cherenkov, CIO/CTO at a mid-size company

E take that there are HR who are not able to do their job well, that the personal will take precedence over the work? Can this be — of course. Will turning off the cameras change this? No. If it is on a permanent basis — replace the person with a more qualified person who can live with it. Why fix the consequences if the problem needs to be solved?