FBI: Stolen PII and deepfakes used to apply for remote tech jobs

Re:FBI: Stolen PII and deepfakes used to apply for remote te... by PragmaticPulp on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @09:16PM (#31915316)

> He quit when I started putting deadlines on work when he started falling behind. I got suspicious, reached out to his prior company's CEO to ask if he was still employed,

Similar story here. Person was clearly falling behind and was unreliable. The "it shouldn't matter if they get their work done" narrative doesn't hold up in practice, at least not with any reasonably utilized engineering team.

Now when I hire remote, I get in contact with the person's former company to confirm their start and end dates match the resume.

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Re:FBI: Stolen PII and deepfakes used to apply for remote te... by Namari on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @05:24AM (#31917988)

I hope you don't call the person's former company before he signed the contract, you should not do that because he may not have resigned and told anyone about it, this could compromise him if he decides to pull out at the last minute. I would be really pissed if someone would do that to me and I would make sure tell everyone this sneaky behaviour on Glassdoor. Also I've resigned once but decided to take a month off in between so dates wouldn't match.

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Re:FBI: Stolen PII and deepfakes used to apply for remote te... by noptd on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @11:05AM (#31921194)

If you put an end date like the PP mentioned, then I think that's on you.

"<Start date> - current" prevents that problem nicely.

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