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On a related theme - does anyone know how many people cheat on the initial round hiring tests? Seems pretty easy to outsource, but I'm not sure how common it is

by rb808 9y ago

On a related theme - does anyone know how many people cheat on the initial round hiring tests? Seems pretty easy to outsource, but I'm not sure how common it is. I've always assumed our applicants did the work themselves but maybe I'm naieve. TBH if I was applying myself I'd be pretty tempted as usually its just a time suck.

wpietri 9y ago
The downside would be that you'd be more likely to work at a place that either isn't sharp enough to detect cheaters or can't get it together to care. Personally, if I suspect somebody is a liar or a cheater, I won't hire them. I build teams that are low on micromanagement and high on independence and trust. Somebody inclined toward fraud can be a big problem in a context like that, both because of the direct damage they do and because they lower ambient level of trust. I recently had somebody apply for an internship claiming extensive iOS experience with a nice iOS project on GitHub. But the commit history was shallow, so I did some digging. Turns out it was a group project, and one of the other people did almost all the work. That person was instantly dead to me. They surely got a job somewhere, but I feel sorry for their coworkers, who at best had to pick up a lot of slack, and at worst had to put up with a bunch of new rules and micromanagement because one employee couldn't be trusted.
- 8_hours_ago 9y ago
  Maybe it was pair programming on the partner’s computer, with most of the work being done by the candidate? I feed bad that they got immediately rejected for something that could have easily been fact checked by a few interview questions.
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greedo 9y ago
We had an applicant interview for an Oracle position. He did really well in the phone interviews and video interviews. Hired him, and wouldntyouknow, he looked very different in person. After a week of on boarding, it was pretty obvious that he had paid someone to do his interviews...

by rb808 9y ago

wpietri 9y ago

The downside would be that you'd be more likely to work at a place that either isn't sharp enough to detect cheaters or can't get it together to care. Personally, if I suspect somebody is a liar or a cheater, I won't hire them. I build teams that are low on micromanagement and high on independence and trust. Somebody inclined toward fraud can be a big problem in a context like that, both because of the direct damage they do and because they lower ambient level of trust. I recently had somebody apply for an internship claiming extensive iOS experience with a nice iOS project on GitHub. But the commit history was shallow, so I did some digging. Turns out it was a group project, and one of the other people did almost all the work. That person was instantly dead to me. They surely got a job somewhere, but I feel sorry for their coworkers, who at best had to pick up a lot of slack, and at worst had to put up with a bunch of new rules and micromanagement because one employee couldn't be trusted.

8_hours_ago 9y ago
Maybe it was pair programming on the partner’s computer, with most of the work being done by the candidate? I feed bad that they got immediately rejected for something that could have easily been fact checked by a few interview questions.

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greedo 9y ago

We had an applicant interview for an Oracle position. He did really well in the phone interviews and video interviews. Hired him, and wouldntyouknow, he looked very different in person. After a week of on boarding, it was pretty obvious that he had paid someone to do his interviews...