How early should I join a zoom superday before my time?
I have a Zoom superday with a firm. Let's say they want me to interview from 12-12:30pm one day. Should I log on to the zoom 5, 10, 15 minutes in advance?
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I logged in 5 minutes before mine and missed the directions/basically was put into my first breakout room on the dot so I would say at least 10 minutes lol. You can always turn your cam off until people start talking l
If you know you are the only candidate, just join on time. $10 says your interviewer won't join until like at least a minute after anyway. If you join early you have limited upside and lots of downside; at best you seem eager (which won't get you far if you can't answer "walk me through a DCF") and at worst you just open yourself up to time for more questions.
Saw the other guy respond with joining 5min early and missing instructions because they are using breakout rooms. If that's the case that sounds like the firm did a fucked up job scheduling and relaying instructions in the first place. I would still err on just being on time unless you have reason to believe they're trying to actually replicate the superday style of rotating you through a bunch of rooms.
One thing you should do though is test your lighting/angle/background a few times. Definitely don't want the interviewer to be able to see the bottle of lotion and crumpled up tissues on your night stand in the bottom corner of the screen.
Stop sweating so much, good luck.
Don't advise this. If you have some technical problem, you may get fucked. Best to join 10 minutes early and then turn camera off.
OC here. This is a good point. Agreed that you should test your tech, including camera and background image etc, before joining, but you can do that on Zoom without actually joining the call. IMO if you join earlier than you need to that's a capped upside scenario, but if you're not confident that you know how to use Zoom then I think it makes sense to troubleshoot early.
I get an email notification saying something like “your zoom attendee XYZ is waiting” if I am the host of the meeting and someone joins before me. So I would stick to a couple of minutes early, not 10 or 20 minutes since the interviewer will probably get a notification when you join. That’s just for standard zoom meetings though, idk how breakout rooms work.
I usually get an email notification saying something like “your zoom attendee xyz is waiting” if I am the host of the meeting and someone joins before me. I wouldn’t join more than 5-10 minutes early. Might be bothersome to the interviewer to get a notification like 20 minutes before the interview that you’re waiting for them.
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