Being in the tech world, this surprises me not in the least. The only thing vaguely surprising is that "John" was dumb enough to have it be bloody obvious that he wasn't who he claimed to be, but even that ... there are some very dumb techies out there, and we've hired some (the guy who started going on about UFOs during the interview lunch turned out to be a real piece of work, unsurprisingly). I'd still dropkick him off a very high legal cliff if I were in their position, as there is a real possibility that this was a corporate espionage attempt.
When I saw it this morning, I sent it to my alumni group chat. A friend who is a VP of engineering was like "oh god, we have so many problems with this" & my spouse chimed in "I'm worried that one of the people we have an offer out to is doing this, actually, I flagged it with the hiring manager last week so he knows to doublecheck."
A friend who is in IT says her team has a weed out question.. and it was Do You Think There Is Extraterrestrial Life? And she said there are 3 answers. 2 are fine, but the 3rd is a BIG RED FLAG for her time (yes with reasons, no with reasons are fine. Yes and I think they are here and in our midst is NOT FINE.) And I always think about that question when I interview people. I never use it but I think about it.
I'm wondering why everyone's assuming the employee hired someone else to do the interview, as opposed to the applicant hiring somebody else to do the job for him (at a lower salary.) Especially since it seems like the resume didn't match the employee they got either. I've heard a lot about that scam lately.
About five or so years back when I was interviewing for jobs, I got kind of irritated at companies that were insisting on Skype or other video-call interviews for the first round, when in the past a phone interview would have sufficed. I was certain that they were using it to check on information that would otherwise be unethical or downright illegal to ask about, such as race, apparent age, and possible membership in any other suspect classes. However it seems that, on further research, that about the 2016-17 timeframe was when this scam of getting someone else to go to the interview in your place was starting.
This post was such a ride, particularly the way it unfolded as a series of updates. I forwarded it to my friends in HR, as we are in university IT. One of my coworkers had also forwarded it to them, so I know at least one other AAM fan at work!
Our support desk has gotten calls before from the parents of new students who need help. They are having issues with logging in to take the math placement test for their kids. Same issue as this interview scam—don’t you think it’s going to be a problem when kid shows up to math class and flunks?
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Our support desk has gotten calls before from the parents of new students who need help. They are having issues with logging in to take the math placement test for their kids. Same issue as this interview scam—don’t you think it’s going to be a problem when kid shows up to math class and flunks?