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Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by intelVISA » Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 2:21 AM UTC

blastwind wrote: post #239

dj_mc_merlin wrote: post #227

Earlier quoted context omitted.

BTW, why are you applying just for internships? I checked out your (non-forked) github repos and you're definitely better than I was as an intern. It's not senior engineer level, but you could definitely go for at least a junior eng position for sure. God knows we hire much worse junior FE engineers than that. Or are you interviewing for FAANG(-like) positions only? edit: small tip though, I would rename the App2.js…

Ha! You're good. I'm still in uni, so I am interviewing for internships (mainly for big tech companies right now since I had a taste at a IoT startup last year). Perhaps I am underestimating myself, but I'm in no rush. Thank you reminding me about that diagramming and xml-parsing repos. Regarding the diagramming repo, that was honestly some of worst code I've written (2000 lined React class with 15 states). It's so b…

Good luck Andrew, keep building and you'll go far w/ your attitude & soft skills

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by intelVISA » Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 2:23 AM UTC

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…

The biggest red flag is a senior engineer role paying $80hr!

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by moralestapia » Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 2:33 AM UTC

intelVISA wrote: post #272

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…

The biggest red flag is a senior engineer role paying $80hr!

Too low? Too high?

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by pophenat » Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 2:34 AM UTC

While working for one of the largest consultancies, I had to interview an offshore candidate for an onshore position in my team. It was a database development job and I asked the typical SQL questions, data modelling, etc - all over Skype with no camera. The guy on the other side seemed very knowledgeable. Amazingly high level for the job actually, and better than what his CV suggested. Being an internal candidate, I did not suspect anything and recommended him for the job. A month or so after that, management flew him in and I got to meet him in person. To my surprise, his language skills and much less his technical skills were anywhere near what I experienced at the interview. He was very keen to be a manager, with very very poor SQL skills - even in theory. A friend of mine later told me that it is a common practice in the offshore dev center to let the good devs interview for positions and then to send another person to do the job. They apparently did that to clients quite often and it was not surprising to him that I got the same treatment - even though it was an internal assignment.

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by mlsu » Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 2:35 AM UTC

type_Ben_struct wrote: post #2

Wow. This is creepy. Props to the interviewer for allowing the real Connor to stay on the interview and observe. This is one of my big problems with LinkedIn. We put so much information out there in public, it’s really easy for people do do this. That information can also be used for things worse than applying for jobs. I think small companies hiring freelancers are most vulnerable to this. In the UK at least compani…

Linkedin is an absolutely massive security hole. I'm surprised at the degree to which it hasn't been exploited.

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by ghaff » Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 2:47 AM UTC

CogitoCogito wrote: post #8

fallat wrote: post #4

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There exists public information about me and yet I don't really expect people to impersonate me on interviews. I guess I'm just naive.

Anyone who would be interested in hiring me knows who I am. But I'm not someone you'd hire on the basis of keywords or a LinkedIn profile I basically haven't touched in years.

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by patrakov » Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 2:47 AM UTC

janandonly wrote: post #68

If your fake profile is not on Upwork yet, then you apparently have a disappointing (or at least a not marketable) career.

Or you have a real Upwork profile.

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by softwaredoug » Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 2:48 AM UTC

I just realized this could really open up some great possibilities.

Any project associated with me that went well, I’ll definitely be claiming credit for.

Any project that went poorly.. that’s clearly the impostor.

Thanks other selves for building my CV! So this is how you get 10 years of experience in 2 year old tech

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by weard_beard » Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 2:54 AM UTC

google234123 wrote: post #264

heleninboodler wrote: post #253

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Effluent is poop

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by rossdavidh » Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 2:56 AM UTC

dont__panic wrote: post #107

mrandypratt37 wrote: post #86

I'm a US-based accountant who is currently interviewing for his first job in software and I was approached by someone on on LinkedIn about an opportunity. Seemed fishy, but figured I could risk 15 minutes. The person set up a meeting between me and a Taiwanese Developer for this exact thing. He said he had 7 years experience and had a contract drafted for he and I to become "business partner" where I would take the m…

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…

I think that the key point is, this kind of thing _is_ legit, if you are honest about what's happening. The dev is foreign, we have a local project manager to handle communications. This is not uncommon. If you are a foreign programmer actually able to program, this is how you would do it.

If you DON'T do it this way, but instead get an actor to play a local dev, then it is because you cannot actually program, and therefore need to borrow someone else's identity to get contracts.