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Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by klausjensen » Fri, Sep 30, 2022, 12:29 PM UTC

yellowstuff wrote: post #101

darau1 wrote: post #81

Someone messaged me on reddit once, and straight up asked me to do exactly this. Below is the message, but I haven't included their name because I think they were at least trying to seem sincere. --- Hi, hope you're doing well. We are looking for a professional interviewee. I'm not sure if you've heard similar thing somewhere. We are a talented developer group specialized in web and mobile software development. We ha…

I've heard of large consulting companies that do a "bait and switch" where the client initially talks to a fantastic technical person prior to signing a contract, then never hears from them again.

This is standard operating procedure with large Indian outsourcing-companies.

Get the contract using great people. Before the ink on the contract is dry, send in hopelessly underqualified staff. By the time the client finds out, their "old" internal resources are long gone, bonuses have been paid out to management for reducing cost etc.

I experienced this first-hand with Cognizant.

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by gcj » Sat, Oct 01, 2022, 2:24 PM UTC

I was contacted on Linkedin once by a guy claiming he wanted me to interview for jobs pretending to be him because his English wasn't good.

I nopped the f out, so I don't have any more info. Maybe it would lead to a similar scam.

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by heleninboodler » Mon, Oct 03, 2022, 8:57 AM UTC

google234123 wrote: post #264

heleninboodler wrote: post #253

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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

If I'm giving this sort of question, I expect you to solve it in an obvious way, write the code for it, then talk about potential improvements. Writing it twice while having an epiphany between the first and second is simply not reasonable. And selecting for candidates who have studied these problems well enough to already know the optimal solutions is not going to get you good developers, it's going to get you leetcode champs. If you're building a competitive leetcode team, then great. If not, you're just focusing on the wrong hiring bar.

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by thwayunion » Thu, Oct 06, 2022, 3:01 PM UTC

dinkelberg wrote: post #378

thwayunion wrote: post #237

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I've supervised a ton of internships, and was an academic before that. The success of internships is largely preordained by the quality of the mentor. Specifically: careful project selection, good advising particularly in the first few weeks, and political/social capital to translate internships into offers (both at the company and elsewhere). Interns can screw things up, and in rare cases heroically rescue an intern…

Out of curiosity, which companies other than Jane Street would you consider "Better-than-FAANG"? I am asking because I am interested in internships, too, as I am currently an undergrad (in math).

Financial firms and biotech firms tend to have good mentors. Other than that, it really depends on the team.

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by jstarfish » Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 9:34 PM UTC

radarsat1 wrote: post #328

jstarfish wrote: post #207

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You vastly overestimate the degree to which the police give a shit. Unless there's an actual financial loss or threat to life, they don't care. This barely qualifies as identity theft anyway; it's attempted fraud. They won't take a report of your phone number being spoofed, but they'll deploy SWAT teams to unsuspecting houses at the word of bored teenagers. Do you know the imposter's actual identity? What would you e…

I understand. But you don't really know if you don't even try to report it. And on this case.. I mean, this has to do with taking in income while posing as someone else, which ultimately affects the IRS, so I suspect there might be more interest at the FBI level than you think. But who knows. I'd be curious to know how common this is / is becoming. It's certainly novel to me.

If you still have faith in the system, more power to you. You seem to think all these three-letter agencies exist to help each other. I shared your optimism before I started having to deal with them on a professional basis.

The most the FBI will do with such reports is, if substantive enough, occasionally tip off industry partners to current trends from two years ago. Useful intel, but woefully outdated.

The hardest part is even getting them to listen to you in the first place-- you need to bring them hard evidence and facts. Like taking on sprint tasks you know you can't achieve, they will not take on cases that cannot be resolved.