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Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by dannyw »

lazide wrote: post #120
filmgirlcw wrote: post #54

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Oh, I'd be so in to take part in this drama. It would probably be one of the most memorable job interviews of all time. And I doubt there would be too many legal or corporate ramifications from allowing someone else to be on the call with their camera off. These are contractor positions, not full-time. Frankly, it's a risk I would take to be able to witness this sort of thing in real-time.

Eh, don't bet on it. What if #2 was real, and #1 was someone stalking #2? Or an abusive ex? If #2 doesn't get the the potential job, they could come after you for all sorts of things - emotional damages, economic damage (from not getting the job), etc. They might even be able to get the court to force you to give them the job, or at least waste years of your time and mental health dealing with legal hassles. It's hil…

Acting in good faith, does matter here.

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by fatih-erikli »

I stopped joining interviews/working with companies for similar reasons. I do freelance. I suggest you to do the same, until the time when the market gives us an ethical and a fair working space. Unfortunately spamming/impersonating people became a normal thing and people don't even feel ashamed for it. They do it like its their normal job. (Especially Indians, sorryaboutthat but I won't be politically correct for this case. Work on fixing that in your community if you feel offended.)

Also the story sounds like he/she's somebody around your close circle. Maybe you can stop what you're doing and spend some time to filter some people out.

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by google234123 »

lupire wrote: post #238
bqe wrote: post #160

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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.

He probably got chastised for poor interviewing in Feedback on Feedback.

That almost never happens.

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by google234123 »

heleninboodler wrote: post #253
bqe wrote: post #160

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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.

This type of interviewing style is bullshit. It means the interviewer knows a better solution that is "clever" and expects you to either have the same cleverness epiphany on the spot or to have studied this question. Neither is actually very useful as a hiring criterion. Guy Steele gave an incredibly interesting guest talk[1] at google about four different ways to solve this exact problem, and the fact that it's an i…

this could be a good question. There’s nothing wrong with a candidate giving some less effluent answer and then progressing up to a better solution with some small hints or discussions

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by yarg »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #260
yarg wrote: post #252

That's made me think. Why the hell don't software developers have their own chain of trust? (Well, professionals in general, but you'd think that we'd have gotten this shit working for ourselves first.) It would kinda fix this shit - at least to the extent that it was actually used. So then all you need to do is have "Company X" adopt the policy that all of their people must be connected to the trust chain. From then…

> Why the hell don't software developers have their own chain of trust? Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s BLOCKCHAIN ! This actually sounds like a possibility legit application for distributed ledger.

I'd rather use a distributed DAG than a distributed linked-list.

But yeah, that's a decent use for the ledger.

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by vxNsr »

paraknight wrote: post #182

I knew immediately it's Upwork. This is extremely common on there. The main reason is because developers in Western countries can demand higher rates. Just watch out for the red flags: mismatching LinkedIn experience, no camera during interview, incorrect accent, etc. Don't trust the reviews because accounts are routienly shared and/or sold. I've had some fun with this before where a developer with a clearly Chinese…

> no camera during interview

to me this is immediate no hire. If you can't be bothered to show your face, I can't trust you.

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by kuramitropolis »

darau1 wrote: post #103
jawns wrote: post #99

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If it were really true that this development group could deliver according to client expectations, they would do what many other groups do: form a consultancy and hire an English-language speaker not as a fake interview candidate but as a liason. I worked with a firm that did this. Basically, they had one project manager who could speak decent English and about six developers who couldn't. The English-speaking PM was…

I interviewed one guy that seemed to fit this description -- he didn't speak much, and when he did his accent was strong. He had someone with him, that seemed to speak on his behalf.

Spooky.

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by verall »

jeroenhd wrote: post #121
dont__panic wrote: post #107

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If I can play devil's advocate for a moment... if the company gets decent work, the non-US participant gets better (and fairer, globally) pay compared to what they'd get locally, and the US participant takes care of the "soft" side of the operation... who's getting hurt? I can't deny that something smells skeevy about this and I don't think I could ever trust a random foreign developer who I haven't built up a solid…

Everybody wins until the tax man comes knocking for all of the dollars owed, or when "Connor Tumbleson" gets flagged as a terrible employee when all those copy-pasted qualifications don't line up with reality and the work is mediocre. As reported elsewhere in these threads, the credentials and interview process are all worked out upfront, the interview no long becomes a valid test of qualifications for the position.…

> Personally, I'd call the authorities

What, are the local cops going to arrest them? For what?

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