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And people wonder why managers like hiring in person workers? It's not that you can't fake some stuff like this in person, but it's both harder (more expensive) and a lot more obvious.

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This is a pretty uncommon scenario, though. Making everyone work on-site on the off-chance that someone will fake an interview seems like a severe over-reaction.

A strategy I've seen is that you can make only the new hires work on-site for their first year or so. Once they've proven themselves in their first year, they can start working remotely.

I've seen this strategy adapted for remote. A friend of mine started using IntelliJ's Code With Me for remote pair programming sessions.

I guess it's possible that if the new hire isn't legit, they might send a better person, but since those sessions were quite regular, plus they were also doing "remote stand-ups", it would be tougher to always be able to send the same replacement and / or not get caught.

It’s not just for an interview. Remote work environments allow scammers like this to skate by for years while it’s a lot harder to bullshit in person.

Perhaps the most secure way forward is to make working remotely a "senior perk" that you earn after 6 months or a year of working in person.

Or just require that the person interviewing holds their ID up to the camera, and then do the same on their first day of work. I mean, I assume HR requires some form of ID when setting things up anyway.

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