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The interview itself

What to expect when the room opens — mic / camera permissions, the recruiter's view, common questions, and how the conversation typically flows.

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Once both sides accept the match, the live video room opens within a couple of seconds. Here's what to expect — from the room opening to the post-interview report card.

The room opens

The interview happens inside Jobby.dev — never a Zoom or Teams link. We render a Daily.co iframe with mic + camera enabled. The recruiter sees you, you see them, and a small chrome strip on the right surfaces the role description, your headline, and a chat sidebar.

See why the video stays in the browser for the design rationale.

Permissions check

We re-confirm mic + camera permissions when the room opens. Browsers sometimes silently revoke permissions between page loads (especially Chrome on Android) — if either fails, you'll see a clear permission prompt rather than a black tile.

What the recruiter sees

  • Your live video feed.
  • Your headline + skills + years-of-experience band.
  • The structured fields parsed from your resume (if you uploaded one).
  • The role description on their side, for reference.
  • A note-taking pane visible only to them — what they jot here lands in your post-interview report card's recruiter-notes section.

They do not see: your email, phone number, or birth date. Those are private fields by default. See your seeker profile.

Common interview shapes

Recruiters set the interview rhythm — Jobby.dev doesn't enforce a structure — but the typical 20-30 minute first round looks like:

  1. 2-3 minute mutual intro: who you are, what they're hiring for.
  2. 5-10 minutes on your background — Jobby.dev shows them the parsed resume so they don't need to ask you to walk through it line by line.
  3. 10-15 minutes of role-fit conversation — what the work actually looks like, who you'd work with, what the next steps are.
  4. 5 minutes for your questions.

Roles that need a coding screen or a take-home typically run an abbreviated Jobby.dev round (10-15 minutes) and schedule the deeper screen as the next step.

Ending the interview

Either side can end the room. Jobby.dev shows a transition screen, then the post-interview report card view a few seconds later. Continue with after the interview.

If something goes wrong

  • Audio breaks up.Daily.co adapts bitrate automatically; if it's persistent, switch to wired ethernet or a 5GHz Wi-Fi network. The room exposes a network-quality indicator at the top of the screen.
  • Camera shows black tile. Another app may have the camera lock — close Zoom, Teams, OBS, browser tabs that hold camera permissions. Most OSes only let one app use the camera at a time.
  • The recruiter never appears.90 seconds is the ceiling. If they haven't joined by then, the match auto- cancels and you go back to the queue without losing your spot.

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