Are these kinds of tests still relevant in the AI age? Genuine question, I have not interviewed for a very long time. They seem as useful as take home college exams.
It's either leetcode style interviews or take-home assessments AFAIK
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#62If LinkedIn actually cared about preventing scams, they could implement verification using company emails if you want to list your current employment. And if it is too much of a heavy burden, then at the minimum you should have it as an optional feature that recruiters would have to comply with, if they want to be legitimate.
Myself and my friends have for years created fake profiles to catfish recruiters and companies to find out what job reqs they have open and what they're looking for in a candidate. When JS frameworks got huge, it was really helpful to separate the legit companies and recruiters from the scammers.
I would imagine a lot of what went on then, is going on now with all the AI jobs and demand for people who have even a cursory knowledge of LLM's and automation.
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#63Interesting read. Is docker sandbox a solution in this situation?
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#64Hmm, did anyone else have issues loading the screenshots here? I had to open most of them in a new tab to see them.
Regardless, that's a pretty sneaky scam, and definitely something that caught out a ton of would be candidates in the past. What's more, the Visual Studio Code project mentioned in the article sounds even more horrifying. Like, the tool seriously lets you run custom code whenever someone opens your project? That feels like a really blatant malware vector that should probably have at least some sort of security mitigation...
It's also rather worrying how little these job sites are doing about scams like this too. I get it, it's perhaps a bit difficult to catch out all kinds of wrongdoing here. But you'd think it'd be simple enough to restrict accounts from claiming to be associated with a company or organisation if there's no proof they work there. At the moment, you can basically claim to work for any company you like, or that you have any type degree from any institution under the sun. If this was verified in any real way, and messages had a large warning at the top if the original claiming to be from an organisation wasn't confirmed to work there, a lot of scams would far more difficult to pull off.
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#65Wow, after reading this article, I figured out I was hacked, but with a way more sophisticated attack. A few weeks ago, I had an interview with a CTO of a totally legit company. It was weird because he had disabled the camera, and the person had a strong accent. But everything else sounded like a normal screening interview, and the person definitely knew what he was talking about. At the end of the interview, he expl…
whoa
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#66> Naturally, the next move was pivoting from defense to offense. I wanted to see if the attackers left any vulnerable services exposed on their IP.
Why not attack them through the C2 interface? That's where I'd expect them to slip up.
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#67Wow, after reading this article, I figured out I was hacked, but with a way more sophisticated attack. A few weeks ago, I had an interview with a CTO of a totally legit company. It was weird because he had disabled the camera, and the person had a strong accent. But everything else sounded like a normal screening interview, and the person definitely knew what he was talking about. At the end of the interview, he expl…
Yikes.
Going to need containerised vscode in this world.
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#68always a good day when we get an a post on front actually related to hacking on hackernews.
thanks!
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#69Wow, after reading this article, I figured out I was hacked, but with a way more sophisticated attack. A few weeks ago, I had an interview with a CTO of a totally legit company. It was weird because he had disabled the camera, and the person had a strong accent. But everything else sounded like a normal screening interview, and the person definitely knew what he was talking about. At the end of the interview, he expl…
Yeah, I refuse to just clone random projects. Luckily, I’m a rails developer - and scaffolding entire applications takes literally minutes.
Just give me the specification and I will build it end to end myself.
If you’re serious you would consider it. If you don’t - I dodged a bullet.
If you consider that people are using LLMs for code generation pretty much exclusively now this should be possible with any stack.
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#70Nice read, but having your home page play music is incredible rude.