I was just invited to do a job interview through Teams (next week).

I guess it’s https://teams.live.com/free ?
And I guess they would invite me so I don’t have to worry about having an MS account, afaics?

I opened the site on Ungoogled Chromium, it seems to work fine. The hardware is: Thinkpad T430s (10yo). Of course it has a web cam & microphone.
There’s a device test https://devicetest.teams.microsoft.com/ which did not return any issues, but did not show me a working connection either. There is no test call functionality.

I’d prefer to test full functionality beforehand, is there a way to do this?

Or experiences?

TIA

edit: my smartphone runs an even obscurer OS than Debian.

edit2: the “make a test call” functionality seems to be part of the desktop app only. Is there one for Linux?

edit3: now support.microsoft.com is blocking me. WTF

edit4: the inofficial Teams for Linux is not an option either because I still need an MS account.

  • tazeycrazy@feddit.ukEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    Teams works well as a PWA. You could keep it in a tab or have it as a PWA if your browser supports it. I use Edge on mint and it works semlasly with my wireless headset. But there definitely no support from Microsoft and I feel like they will kill it at any moment.

  • Hammerheart@programming.dev
    5·
    3 days ago

    Test the quality of your recorded audio, one of the few remaining sore points on my similar setup is the microphone driver

  • jagermo@feddit.org
    3·
    3 days ago

    You can install Teams and call someone else? I had an OK experience, but Webcam quality was an issue.

    If its important, maybe try borrowing a MacBook für the Interview or be open with them that you are on Linux - alternativly, you can set it up on your phine, Android or iOS or a tablet to have a fallback.

    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgOP
      2·
      3 days ago

      I’m pretty sure I want to use the browser (Ungoogled Chromium) on my laptop (my phone OS would be even trickier).

      call someone else

      It might come to that. But I do not know who uses MS (and has an account). Apparently at least one party would have to have that.

      Webcam quality was an issue

      Good point. Does Teams have options to adjust that for low bandwidth?

  • Dran@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 days ago

    I use teams for work every day (calls and dm features) via Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with X11/awesomewm/pulse via Firefox and have no issues

    That suggests that as long as you’re using a reasonably modern version of Debian with a sane config you should be fine