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Had similar while hiring for a Sr Dev. The person who first joined the call was not able to articulate any of the frontend or backend work they had done at the
by stewarts 4y ago
Had similar while hiring for a Sr Dev. The person who first joined the call was not able to articulate any of the frontend or backend work they had done at the previous contracted company.
Call goes static, call drops.
"Person" rejoins. Who is obviously a completely different person who was able to thoroughly fill in the previous details missed.
We ended the call there. Mistake: didn't require video for the session when the first individual proclaimed they were having issues with video.
- frank_nitti 4y agoI’m floored by this. We have a sr engineer who conducted an initial technical screen and swore he saw this happening, the person on screen moving his mouth while someone else talked and wrote the code. My managers recounted this story to me, laughing because they thought the suspicion was ridiculous and that the interviewer was just being paranoid (they had not been on the call). Turns out he was not paranoid…