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Side note to the remote founders/employers out there: Have you been plagued by applicant fraud? We've found for all of our remote engineering roles, we get 100's of amazing applicants who are all fake (clearly not actually in the US) once you get them on a screening call. They're often reading from a script, broken english, and say strange things like they're born and raised in Texas, yet can't speak fluent English o…
Side note to the remote founders/employers out there: Have you been plagued by applicant fraud? We've found for all of our remote engineering roles, we get 100's of amazing applicants who are all fake (clearly not actually in the US) once you get them on a screening call. They're often reading from a script, broken english, and say strange things like they're born and raised in Texas, yet can't speak fluent English o…
I have been on the other side, people wanting to hire me to be the front-door either take interviews or the front-door with customers, the last time I was offered $xx/h + 20% from each project's revenue. 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…
Side note to the remote founders/employers out there: Have you been plagued by applicant fraud? We've found for all of our remote engineering roles, we get 100's of amazing applicants who are all fake (clearly not actually in the US) once you get them on a screening call. They're often reading from a script, broken english, and say strange things like they're born and raised in Texas, yet can't speak fluent English o…
Question, when you list just the US do you include Canada? Born in the states but currently living in Canada to take care of family, unsure if it is worth applying to the litany of US remote positions
I guess it’s mostly my own fault for being nervous about switching jobs, but hearing them accidentally hiring obvious frauds makes me think it’s not as daunting as I feel.
Side note to the remote founders/employers out there: Have you been plagued by applicant fraud? We've found for all of our remote engineering roles, we get 100's of amazing applicants who are all fake (clearly not actually in the US) once you get them on a screening call. They're often reading from a script, broken english, and say strange things like they're born and raised in Texas, yet can't speak fluent English o…
Who’s doing the IDverify startup?
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> You don't need a double-blind placebo study to observe the shifting market. Is your data based on just a few of your friends? How is that considered a "shifting market"? My friends and I do not experience what you are arguing. In fact, we experience the opposite of what you are saying.
Considering that literally hundreds of thousands of qualified people have been laid off this year alone, many of them devs, and plenty of anecdotes on this and other tech forums/chat groups about how the job market has shifted to favor employers, I think it isn't wildly irrational to believe the person you're responding to. Sure, "the plural of anecdote isn't data" and all that, but talk to recruiters and you'll hear…
Those layoffs were to appease shareholders. Did you forget that the market already needed a massive amount of programmer talent? That hasn't changed, my experience hasn't changed. I can get a high paying ($300k) job at literally any point anywhere.
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> This was most likely also happening in the office Not in this case. They even had a chart showing the sharp decline in several different metrics when they let people go remote. If you subtracted out the outliers, most of the company was fine going remote. About 20% of people dropped their productivity to a fraction of before, though. Some people can't handle remote work. I think it's time we stopped pretending like…
Unfortunately, rapidly falling metrics for a minority of remote employees is immediately obvious. The reduction in burnout of top performers due to working remote is much harder to measure since it is in an entirely different frequency domain.
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High growth companies had a hiccup certainly, but there are still more open positions than there are candidates.
I've heard of ghost jobs so I'm starting to actually really doubt some of this, I've literally seen the same job on the market for over a year now with a new chain of recruits contacting me about it every 3 months. I understand there aren't a lot of perhaps qualified people for that role but come on a year with it open? The repeat open positions are disappointing to say the least. At least change the description! I t…
I was working remote from 2007 till 2021 for an US company as an independent international contractor. Now I'm in EU and I'm trying to find a remote US job during 2022 and this year. No luck. It looks like a dead end. Looks like nobody in US needs an experienced remote developer. Something is really changed a lot. It's so sad.
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> Considering that literally hundreds of thousands of qualified people have been laid off this year alone, many of them devs, and plenty of anecdotes on this and other tech forums/chat groups about how the job market has shifted to favor employers, I think it isn't wildly irrational to believe the person you're responding to. "In 2023, the software engineering industry faces a record-breaking shortage of professional…
> In 2023, the software engineering industry faces a record-breaking shortage of professionals. This skills crisis has resulted in an astonishing 1 million tech job vacancies that still need to be fulfilled. Reports suggest that the number of US job vacancies, due to a lack of talent, will reach 85.2 million by 2030. This doesn't disprove any of what's been shared earlier in this thread. Because of the layoffs and un…
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Hey, what do you think - how can we "repair" this process? I mean, what would be a perfect solution to not require photo ID verification video and get rid of scammers?
File a lien on their house if they do commit fraud.