I've NC as I don't want to be identified on the off-chance someone I know or organisation this relates to sees this.
I think we're all fairly comfortable with using Zoom and other similar platforms for job interviews, medical appointments, social gatherings etc. now, myself included but I had a group assessment today by video and I found it highly uncomfortable.
There were maybe 15 people, I couldn't see them but their usernames were shown and basically everyone had to sit in silence entering their answers onto a form and you had to keep your camera on the whole time. I understand the point of this is to avoid people cheating in the assessment but it's a very junior role (I mean basic admin/customer service type thing, without saying too much) so hardly like you would bother cheating as it isn't an important or high-level role whatsoever.
Virtual job interviews feel quite natural to me because it's a two-way collaborative process where you're building rapport but I feel slightly violated that I had to have a stranger watch me on video for nearly an hour while I was entering my answers in another tab meaning they could see me but I couldn't see them. Worst of all I was quite slow so everyone else had left the chat window by the time I had finished inputting my answers and returned to the platform it was on so it was just the assessor staring down the camera in silence still watching and waiting for me to complete the test. I think as a woman and it being a male assessor maybe makes it worse, I don't know. Again he didn't do anything wrong but the circumstances were so bizarre to me. Most of the test I just kept thinking I about the fact I was being watched remotely.
So AIBU do you think or would the average person find this majorly off-putting?