> This has been happening for decades. Long before covid, saddle up and due your due dilligence. Some ancedotal evidence to support what you're saying. My fir

> This has been happening for decades. Long before covid, saddle up and due your due dilligence. Some ancedotal evidence to support what you're saying. My first real development gig was for a startup in 2005. It was a small salesforce team, and I was a front-end guy. We had a small cluster of cubes in a two story, tiny office in a warehouse district. Indian guy sitting to my left kept getting up and going over and asking the team lead questions and then he'd go back to his desk. Repeat about every 20 minutes. I come in one morning and he's at his desk, furiously paging through the ".Net Nuke for Dummies" book. Another day of him getting up and continually asking the team lead how to do stuff. Since this was constantly taking place out of my peripheral vision, it was really distracting. I finally asked the team lead to go to lunch. After we sit down, I ask him WTF is going on with the guy sitting next to me. He rolls his eyes and tells me, "Dude, this is the second time this has happened. We interview a guy over Skype, he does well, passes the code challenge, and we hire him. He gets into our office and doesn't know how to do shit. I'm talking like basic shit man. Like, you're a front-end dev. It would be like hiring you and you come in and start asking how to write HTML. We're still trying to figure out how this scam works and we thought adding a code challenge would weed some folks out, but I guess not. Anyways, he'll be gone by the time we get back from lunch." This all happened in 2005, almost 20 years ago. I've been at larger companies and have seen the same thing happen over the years. It seems like a cat and mouse game. As soon as you add something to try and weed these folks out, they figure out how to game whatever due diligence you've put in place and then it starts all over again.