I would like to, but... have you tried to use thunderbird on an "older" linux laptop nowadays? Even with 8 gigs of ram, and a non-fancy memory-saving windowmanager, thunderbird is almost unusable now (large imap mbox), firefox even worse. I don't see why all that additional bloat is needed, or wanted. Please keep in mind, that a lot(!) of people are not able to afford buying new hardware every now and then anymore. And this is getting worse. First the pandemic, then the war in Ukraine, now the war in Middle-East. Shortage of ram/storage/everything (thanks ai) and massivly increased costs of energy, housing, food, insurance, everything. And in the years to come, I am afraid, that will be getting worse. Please think about it, when adding the "next cool feature", 'Keep the internet affordable'. --thunderbird user since 1.0
Regarding "Insist on camera ON phone screens.", DON'T do that.
Remember you try to hire a ${coder, admin, } not the next tv-news-presenter, beeing on screen is not a mandatory needed skill in most jobs.
By asking for something, that makes people uncomfortable, you will exclude a lot of likely brilliant candidates.
People who refuse to do video interviews may be for example:
- people who value privacy, not only their own, but most likely yours too
- people who feel very uncomfortable beeing watched by strangers and who think or even know that they will perform significant worse than in an audio-only interviewsituation
- people who simply don't own a camera
- people who use textonly computers offjob
- poeple who have experienced that your 'standard'-videochat-app may not work, maybe because they use linux, bsd, os/2 or nonstandard operatingsystems
- people who don't have broadband internet, yes there are still people like that
- people who pay for every bit send, and yes having a not so cheap phone/internet contract is still common in some areas
- people who feel uncomfortable to let strangers in their bedroom, even virtualy
- people who have disabilities or cosmetic issues that they fear may distract you
- people who have disabilities where moving and out-of-sync pictures distract them
- people who tend to refuse unreasonable requests and who therefor regard you as unqualified to be their next employeer
- ...
All of them have good reasons not wanting video interviews.