Hey everyone,
I’m exploring ways to make the interview process smoother on my job portal (TheGulfCareerz). Ideally, I’d love to embed Zoom directly into the site so recruiters and candidates can join interviews without leaving the platform.
Has anyone tried using the Zoom Web SDK for something like this? I’m wondering how stable it is for real-time video interviews, especially on mobile. Also curious how you handled authentication and limiting access to only the right users.
Would appreciate any insights, examples, or “watch out for this” tips from anyone who’s built something similar. Thanks!
Yes, we’ve done it. It’s pretty decent, but can’t have sharescreen from mobile because mobile browsers don’t support it.
Authentication is simple, as it can be taken care of transparently by your site (your backend has to generate a token and send it to your frontend to pass on to the Zoom Video SDK).
Anecdotally, there are more issues than with the regular Zoom client (or other actual app competitors) but obviously it’s more convenient than to ask them to get yet another app from the store. Also, there’s SDKs for Android, iOS and Flutter, should you want to build it in a native app of your own.
Recordings work as you’d expect.
Client-side transcription is available without cost or recording, but is very hit-and-miss based on device.
Server-side transcription is based on the recording and is decent in English, mediocre in more obscure languages, and outright abysmal in mixed-language scenarios, it just transcribes one language and skips the rest.
Based on transcripts, you can then extend the pipeline with LLMs for summaries, pros & cons and other cool stuff. Zoom offers a decent API and also calls your webhooks when recording/transcription is completed.
But as all SaaS offerings, it hinges on your business model.
If your business model is revenue-per-call, then it beats implementing WebRTC with an SFU yourself. I’ve done both, integrating Zoom Video SDK is 10-15% of the time & effort of doing it from scratch at most, even if you already know WebRTC and have to learn Zoom SDK.
If your business model is anything else, like monthly subscription, then careful consideration must be taken on how you rack up costs per minute.
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