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Sometimes just the possibility of it working, and the person's desperation, will cause them to try it. I've heard enough instances of people paying others to t

Sometimes just the possibility of it working, and the person's desperation, will cause them to try it. I've heard enough instances of people paying others to take exams for them that it doesn't surprise me that some people trying to do an interview that way, too. They think just getting the job will do something for them, and (for whatever reason) think they'll be able to keep the job once they have it. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that these people think they have high-level skills, but some other factor is preventing them from getting the job. Sometimes it might even be true, but I'm better against them having the skill level they think they do.

chx 4y ago
> I've heard enough instances of people paying others to take exams for them Back in the 90s I was becoming a math teacher at one university while I was working on getting admitted into an IT engineer course at another. Strangely enough, the other admittance exam besides math was physics and I sucked at that while obviously I was far ahead in math compared to my peers at the physics preparation course. So someone offered an astonishing amount of money to take the math entrance exam for them, enough to buy a small apartment with it -- and perhaps I would've been young and foolish enough to go with it except for one fact: they offered a falsified national id to go with it. That's five years in prison if you get caught with it and I noped the hell out of it... In the case OP describes, the situation is similar: it's the documentation that catches you.