In fact, if we step back a bit, a new hire _always_ brings some risk with them, because interview processes just aren’t perfect. What we’re mainly worried about

In fact, if we step back a bit, a new hire _always_ brings some risk with them, because interview processes just aren’t perfect. What we’re mainly worried about here is accidentally hiring someone who we shouldn’t be able to hire, mainly for legal reasons like they’re in another country and we’re not remitting their income taxes properly. Secondarily there’s the “can they actually do the job” problem that has always existed. The new issue here is that we will now waste time on too many new hires who can’t make the grade, because we’re assuming that our hiring process was really good at weeding out the poor fits, and these “games” exploit the weaknesses. Rather than get into an arms race with fraudsters, perhaps hire two or three people for every opening on a short term and then only keep the ones who deliver.