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Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?!?!

This thread is sus all the way down

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

#312
This happened to me once. It got really weird. My partner and I didn't know there was a fake account made, and we later found out, for days this fake account was talking to my partner - being super nice and genuinely a better person than the actual real me.

Anyway, they later asked my partner to send money to their personal account. I was a little bit sad.

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

#314
Good story, but how do you search on Google Analytics IDs?

“You can reverse those sites to find a couple hundred of domains on that IP, then cross-check the list against matching Google Analytics IDs and find almost 50 domains”

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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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…

I mean, this is not incredibly different from consultancies sending their crack A-team to pitch a project and then a bunch of freshly-recruited graduates to actually build it. All big firms do it. I can see some particularly entrepreneurial fellow overseas experiencing it once and then going "well, if they can get away with it, why couldn't we...?"

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

#316

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…

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…

> also: do not use regex for parsing XML

HE COMES! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

#317
Upwork just doesn't care.

I was on the receiving end of one of these recently. I was looking for US-based contractor, found someone whose profile looked legit, and reached out. In the phrasing I got back via email, I knew this wasn't the native English speaker I was expecting.

Here's my thread: https://twitter.com/watilo/status/1561795264888901633

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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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…

I have interviewed hundreds of scientists-engineers-developers, and I never use esoteric quiz questions or logic riddles.

I want to screen people for the skills that they will really need in their daily lives, so that's where I draw my pool of questions from. For example, processing data in the most simple ways (sorting, searching, extracting) quickly reveals if the candidates have actually _done_ what they claim they did. You'd be surprised how many Oxford PhDs struggle to write done a pipeline for extracting a simple word frequency list.

Now you might say "Maybe they're Windows people, or prefer Python." and my response is "I don't mind what tools you use - but you need to demonstrate that you can solve easy/common tasks on the spot, without wasting have a calendar day to re-invent the wheel."

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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I've had the reverse experience on upwork: the client is asking for bids on a project but when you google their name and location it turns out they're in jail. When we had a zoom call their name was different.. I'll have to cancel the project i guess.

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

#320
I know this is HN, but an entire thread about imposters and not one mention of Among Us... maybe that's just my viewpoint :)

But that said, I do wonder if Innersloth actually has to deal with similar issues like this, especially after the boom of interest in the game. Maybe not?

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