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Product14 Apr 2026·5 min read

Running interviews on African networks

What we learned shipping live AI interviews into networks that drop, throttle, and occasionally vanish.

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Bisi Okafor

Product Engineer

resilienceengineeringlive

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.

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