Are they any good at their jobs?
The article makes it sound like these guys are none too bright and not especially well trained. Are companies just that desperate?
The article makes it sound like these guys are none too bright and not especially well trained. Are companies just that desperate?
When you apply for jobs nonstop and can multiply your efforts by applying under a multitude of different names and resumes, eventually you get bites. Push long enough and you might catch a desperate hiring manager who doesn't know how to interview people but is under pressure to fill headcount immediately to hit their KPIs or whatever.
They play it like a numbers game. They also get better by constantly A/B testing their process and practicing interviews over and over again.
My company is pretty small, so we caught it within an hour of getting him onboarded. But I can see this being trickier in bigger companies, where the hiring process is more disconnected from the team they get assigned to.
So fascinating as well having a person that was paid to do the interview. I guess there is a secret web site where people are waiting to do this as a service?
It seems unlikely that someone living in the US would take the test for someone else, since the risk is just too high. I'm pretty sure this is just straight up fraud you can get in trouble for. My bet is that this was a scam setup outside of the country, and they used a stolen identity to get the paperwork cleared.
Yes. Not too long ago I saw so-so engineer get hired and his manager was desperate enough to overlook some troubling knowledge gaps and the guy's inability to actually do what he was told.