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Someone is pretending to be me

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Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by mitchdoogle »

notahacker wrote: post #100
suoduandao2 wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've simply asked candidates 'tell me about a time you had to make a moral judgement'. I'm kind of surprised that it's not a more common question, but of course that makes it work - truly immoral people would have a made-up anecdote if it came up regularly.

I'd have thought a lot of completely regular candidates would be a bit stumped by that (especially since many non-trivial moral judgements are personal life stuff that's really off limits for interviews) Although maybe that's the point: psychopathic candidates end up making up fairly unconvincing heroic stories whereas regular people look a bit confused and maybe mention something they didn't do because they couldn't…

I think it goes without saying that interview questions are asking about your work life,. altho it might help if the interviewer specifies that anyway, i.e. "Tell us about a time you had to make a moral judgment at work"

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by codazoda »

tg9000 wrote: post #138
jjslocum3 wrote: post #119

In 1996, my employer got a contract to work with AT&T to build a website that provided regular event updates from the Atlanta Olympics. In 1996, this was a very big deal, such a newish concept that the project was written up in AdAge or some similar industry magazine. A few months later a prospective junior engineer came in for an interview. My manager asked him the typical "tell me about an interesting project you'v…

What a small world! Unless you are also making up that story (which I would get a huge laugh out of) I'm 99% positive I was in the room with you when this happened. :)

Wait! Are you his manager or the imposter?!?!

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by adamrezich »

what gets me about this story is that they chose a developer to impersonate who seems to have a pretty dang unique name. I share my name with only one other person in the world, but going by a quick google search at least, Connor is the only Connor Tumbleson in the world (or at least online). this seems like a pretty big liability—if I was in charge of running this nefarious group I would stay away from names like Connor Tumbleson, and instead go for impersonating Bob Johnsons and John Andersons or whatever.

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by tomrod »

blastwind wrote: post #125

Andrew here. Connor, thanks for releasing this on the orange site. This story is also more fun from my position. I've been applying to internships and interviewing every week. They're mostly rejections. They're the same questions over and over with minor variation (sorry to top comment for "impersonating" your comment style). My days are deteriorating from a colorful sphere down to two points. In fact, down to two po…

Andrew, mad respect on your integrity and navigating an ethics situation one would expect to read about in a college study.

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by [deleted] »

tg9000 wrote: post #138
jjslocum3 wrote: post #119

In 1996, my employer got a contract to work with AT&T to build a website that provided regular event updates from the Atlanta Olympics. In 1996, this was a very big deal, such a newish concept that the project was written up in AdAge or some similar industry magazine. A few months later a prospective junior engineer came in for an interview. My manager asked him the typical "tell me about an interesting project you'v…

What a small world! Unless you are also making up that story (which I would get a huge laugh out of) I'm 99% positive I was in the room with you when this happened. :)

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Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by [deleted] »

jjslocum3 wrote: post #119

In 1996, my employer got a contract to work with AT&T to build a website that provided regular event updates from the Atlanta Olympics. In 1996, this was a very big deal, such a newish concept that the project was written up in AdAge or some similar industry magazine. A few months later a prospective junior engineer came in for an interview. My manager asked him the typical "tell me about an interesting project you'v…

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Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by kodah »

blastwind wrote: post #125

Andrew here. Connor, thanks for releasing this on the orange site. This story is also more fun from my position. I've been applying to internships and interviewing every week. They're mostly rejections. They're the same questions over and over with minor variation (sorry to top comment for "impersonating" your comment style). My days are deteriorating from a colorful sphere down to two points. In fact, down to two po…

Shout out to you for wading through the literal torrent of bullshit without the foresight of a blog post to expose context and with little professional experience to help inform you. You'll be a great asset to the industry but it can take a minute to find your footing. Be persistent and definitely keep this story around for beer Friday.

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by codedokode »

ollien wrote: post #57

What I can't piece together here is what the scammer's endgame is. They land a cushy developer job under some false identity and ... then what? They're not going to pay some random college student to attend every meeting, are they? Even if they were, are they going to be able to maintain the level of work they lied about? If they really had those skills, they would just interview on their own. Something's not adding…

1) they could have developers from 3-rd world countries who have necessary skills but get low pay rate

2) they could have developers from countries currently under sanctions

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by dleslie »

laumars wrote: post #135
dleslie wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like "Tell me about a time you failed miserably, absolutely and unequivocally, and how you recovered from it." It's surprising how illuminating the responses are.

I remember in one job the company had a set of questions we had to ask candidates on top of the technical questions. One of them was “what would you describe as your biggest weakness?” I always grown when I have to ask that question because you always get some stupid answers where people say things like “I’m just too organised” or similar spin to make a negative sound like a positive. Frankly I can’t blame them becau…

I tend to coach the question to prevent people from giving it a softball, with something like "I have certainly caused my fair share of crisis, what I'm interested in is the experiences you ..."

It's an adequate test to filter out folks who are simply incapable of accepting responsibility for their actions, or who have yet to really shoulder enough responsibility to meaningfully fail.

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by bqe »

dmoy wrote: post #134
blastwind wrote: post #125

Andrew here. Connor, thanks for releasing this on the orange site. This story is also more fun from my position. I've been applying to internships and interviewing every week. They're mostly rejections. They're the same questions over and over with minor variation (sorry to top comment for "impersonating" your comment style). My days are deteriorating from a colorful sphere down to two points. In fact, down to two po…

> In fact, down to two pointers, left and right, iterating over a list of heights to find how much rain water it can trap. Ah haha I hate that question It should be banned everywhere, oh well. I once saw a physicist (not even a coder) give a really cool answer to it though, I wish I could remember it.

I remember being asked this during my interview at Google. It was the first time I heard it and I gave an answer that iterated over the list twice. The interviewer said that it wasn't good enough and I am only allowed to iterate over it once. He didn't let me write my O(2n) solution down so he returned a strong no as feedback.
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