Going through this latest round of job searching, rapport building/interview success has been so much more difficult over zoom/etc. It makes me wonder how much of my past success has been from being a tall-ish, attractive-but-not-so-much-it's-threatening, pleasingly built dude, instead of my apparent technical competence. All of my non-verbal rapport building skills really fall flat, and the fact that I'm bumbling, a little haphazard, kind of anxious is less charming quirk and more off putting anti-feature.
I'm really pretty good at Scala, though.