This actually happened at my first software job. We were expanding fast by hiring bunches of contractors, which was already giving pretty polar results. After

This actually happened at my first software job. We were expanding fast by hiring bunches of contractors, which was already giving pretty polar results. After a while, my team got one too. They didn't have a computer ready for him yet, so my lead pairs me up with him to babysit basically. We go chill in a conference room and I basically just try to get to know him and explain what we do here. I can tell he's nervous, and since this was my first dev job I remembered that feeling all too well, and wanted to be nice to him. Immediately, he barely speaks english. Weird, but okay. Then I try to just talk shop with him, and find that I can't get any answers about recent stuff he's built, what he's interested in, frameworks he's used, or even what his favorite language is. They guy clearly knew nothing about software. I laughed to myself in a "not my problem" kind of way. After a while I finally hand him off and explain the situation to my lead. Turns out, he had a totally different person do the interview and coding test. And he didn't know anything about software. When confronted with this reality, he simply repeated, "I can do the work, I'll get the work done, I promise." Presumably the plan was to either just try and collect the first paycheck or two, or maybe he even wanted to outsource the work to someone else. So, maybe don't rework your whole hiring process around this possibility, but at least do a video chat. (This was well before covid.)