Item: BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with BlueJeans

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Used BlueJeans across the entire organization. Any department, person, or team that conducts meetings over phone, video/virtually with a distributed team and/or clients used it.

We used it to connect remote and distributed people, teams, departments, and offices. We also used BlueJeans for remote/out of area interviews with qualified candidates. It helps speed up the interviewing timeline and process by allowing us to video interview and screen share as needed.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Was fairly easy to set it up (via Chrome extension) for meetings, as well as for video interviews.
Not having to install or download any additional software made it easy and friendly to use.
Available as a web app or desktop app.
Easy to share and distribute links to others and quickly onboard to use.
Screenshare easy to use.

Cons

Wish it allowed to view multiple video chatters simultaneously a la Zoom, gchat/meet, rabb.it, airtime, etc.
Screenshare slow to respond when livestreaming; audio doesn't sync with video or what's on screen.

Return on Investment

Helped speed up the interviewing timeline and process by allowing us to video interview and screen share as needed
Helped create more genuine and authentic connections vs. traditional phone interviews and team meetings

Alternatives Considered

Zoom, Cisco Webex Meetings and Google Hangouts Meet

BlueJeans was friendlier to use vs. Webex, but falls short in comparison to Zoom and Hangouts. Zoom has a much lower barrier to entry to use with non-tech saavy people. Hangouts Meet had a better and more seamless integration with the G suite apps egosystem (obviously).

As an BlueJeans admin, it was more clunky and difficult to navigate the web portal vs. the others.

Likelihood to Recommend

Considering the current work/economic climate, being able to use BlueJeans for remote/out of area interviews with qualified candidates. It helps speed up the interviewing timeline and process by allowing us to video interview and screen share as needed.

Also, BlueJeans is suited to connect with distributed team members and groups who are all WFH.

It's less appropriate for work but still good functionally would be using it to connect with family and friends for HH, game nights, group chats, etc.

BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued) Feature Ratings

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Reliable, high quality video & audio, but there are alternatives that may be better suited.