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We recently discovered that someone lied about their one of their skills during the interview. We fired them. End of story. No other option. Do not lie on y
by wccrawford 6y ago
We recently discovered that someone lied about their one of their skills during the interview.
We fired them. End of story. No other option.
Do not lie on your resume or during the interview. I've never worked at a company that it wasn't grounds for immediate dismissal.
- saagarjha 6y agoFired as in you stopped the interview, or you had already hired them and then terminated them once this came to light?
- dmos62 6y agoI've heard hiring is not a cheap process. That must have been a critical skill if you chose to restart the process.
- justusthane 6y agoNot necessarily. It might not be about the lack of the particular skill they lied about, but the fact that they lied at all and what that indicates about them as a person/employee.
- rimiform 6y agoIf you fired everyone who ever lied you'd have nobody in your company.
- goatinaboat 6y agoDo not lie on your resume or during the interview. There are lies and there are lies. For example I wrote some shell scripts to create VMs in AWS and install some packages on them. This appears on my resume as "expert in rapid provisioning of infrastructure as code in the cloud" or something like that. It sounds a lot more grandiose than it really is, but that's just how the game is played these days.