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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm hiring manager for a manager level position requiring 5+ years of experience.  I've had interviewees join the virtual interview from their current office, not dressed for an interview, join 2-5 minutes late, or don't send a thank you.  Am I being too picky or is this how it is now?  Our HR department conducted the screening interviews, so these are candidates that passed that.  [/quote]

I've been interviewing a lot lately and I was 2-5 minutes late for a couple of interviews due to weird connectivity issues. Every interview I've had via Microsoft Teams, the software has crashed for me when I loaded it on my home computer (a MacBook Pro). So it may be something simple like that. I installed MS Teams to prepare for these interviews and I set up a virtual background, but when I accept a meeting invite from a corporate Teams account, my virtual background won't load. It's possible your interviewees were going through something similar.

I wore blazers to first few interviews, but I felt odd when the people on the other end were dressed down, so I started just wearing a nice sweater and necklace to future interviews. Maybe that was a bad judgement call on my part, but the rules seem fuzzy now when we're interviewing virtually.

I didn't realize that sending "thank you" notes was still the norm. I haven't sent them.

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