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…
And yet I get flat out rejected without a phone screen after 300 applications. What is even going on? I was under the impression that every job posting right now is instantly buried with a glut of top quality candidates, and that you simply pick your favorite, lowball them and you're done.
Quality candidates are rare and quality recruiters are rarer.