Sep. 8th, 2007

If you are ever assigned to use interviewstream.com, run screaming in the opposite direction.

As fast as you can. As loud as you can.

This complete and utter piece of shit involves watching a pre-recorded interviewer ask you questions via webcam, then answering via your own webcam. Here is where the "genius" kicks in. Say you have a list of six questions assigned for you to answer or else you fail this class that you have to have in order to graduate. *cough* Here is what happens:

You have to finish them ALL to save. You can't save your work partway through and come back.
If it gets frozen midway, you have to start over.
If it crashes midway, you have to start over.
If you finish a question, click the "continue" button, and nothing happens for fifteen seconds, after which time you click it again, and it finally gets in gear and moves forward, then it will skip a question and you will have to start over.
If too many people try to access it at once, you will have to start over.
If ANYTHING at ALL prevents you from completing about an hour's worth of high-bandwidth, Flash-based work ALL IN ONE SITTING, then you will have to START. ALL. OVER.

Add this to the fact that in all the times I clicked the "begin interview" button over the last few days1, I never actually got in until an hour ago, and you can perhaps guess why I keep spitting profanities at the screen. Mainly because this is UTTER. SHIT.

Well, now to go back to masochistically clicking buttons and answering talking heads, only to have them suddenly stop talking in the middle of a sentence and do nothing more for twenty straight minutes until I give up and, holding back sobs, click the "exit" button and lose all my work. Just figured I'd give everyone a heads-up.


1. I wasn't actually ready to do it until today, but that's beside the point. I wouldn't have been able to get in to do the interview even if I'd been the most prepared person ever.

Profile

blarg

January 2016

S M T W T F S
     12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31      

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jul. 3rd, 2025 07:34 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios