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by ThalesX 1538 days ago
Or, in 2022, one could reach into their pocket just use a phone, making the interviewer's cautionary move generally useless.
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> just use a phone

I assumed that keeping looking in the direction of the camera was relevant (in their idea).

It's fairly easy to augment a video stream to paste on eyes that always look in the direction of the camera. It's the digital equivalent of glasses with eyes on them[1].

1. https://www.amazon.com/glasses-eyes-them/s?k=glasses+with+ey...

I have multiple monitors
...Which one supposedly would not consult during an interview.
No matter how you arranged them. And I would never use a USB camera between them, either.