Re:The remote work dominates on HN:Who is hiring? – 69% jobs...
by jselysianeagle on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @02:30AM
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Same here - I was recently offered an "interview support" job by one of these body shops in a far away Asian country, which I immediately rejected. The role would've been to help candidates pass interviews using tricks (cheats, really) like the ones that've been brought up in other discussions before.
Re:The remote work dominates on HN:Who is hiring? – 69% jobs...
by cj on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @12:15PM
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If you're good enough to pass a senior dev interview, you're probably also capable enough to create some kind of SaaS tool/plugin for applicant tracking systems (or directly in Zoom?) to help employers identify fake/real candidates.
You have potential to make a lot more money catching these bad actors rather than enabling them.
Darknet dairies has an interesting episode about this: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/133/
It's a real problem which makes it harder for people like me that are legitimately working remotely. This has existed for a long time but it wasn't as popular because remote working was unpopular before the pandemic.
> Really frustrating because it's making us have to do silly things like require photo ID verification over video on the first screening call
Unfortunately, this wouldn't solve it, a person can join the calls and get someone else to do the work.