Running interviews on African networks
What we learned shipping live AI interviews into networks that drop, throttle, and occasionally vanish.
Bisi Okafor
Product Engineer
If your interview platform was built on Western broadband assumptions, it’ll break here. We rewrote the session layer with three principles in mind.
Audio-first, video-best-effort
We prioritize audio quality over video resolution. When bandwidth dips below a threshold, video downgrades or pauses; audio stays. Candidates and recruiters can keep talking through dips that would kill a normal call.
Resume, don’t restart
Sessions check-point every ten seconds. If a tab refreshes or the network drops, you rejoin to the same question with the same scoring context.