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Can you expand on the guy who faked his technical capabilities? Way back, I was part of a 4-person team that did some phone interviews of contractors. We aske

Can you expand on the guy who faked his technical capabilities? Way back, I was part of a 4-person team that did some phone interviews of contractors. We asked some pretty basic questions, based on their resumes, and after the call voted on him/her. One of my questions to see if they knew anything about C++ was just to ask if they could tell me what a class was. A bunch of candidates couldn't answer that question. It really isn't that hard to ask some basic questions and talk about work experience, to get a handle on whether someone is actually a competent programmer or not. If you're looking for top-tier talent, this might not be sufficient, but most jobs do not need top-tier talent anyway.

aluminussoma 11y ago
The guy was lazy and not very competent. We hired him for a specific capability that he was supposedly doing in his previous job. He knew the words and terms but was dangerous in his position. I can only assume that his previous workplace, a very large company, kept him away from doing anything meaningful so that he didn't mess things up. That's what we ended up doing. I later discovered his resume was an identical copy of his coworker's resume (both were submitted several months apart for the same job).