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Ahh, do the smart thing and lie about graduating from MIT. You can tell them you lied after you make it through the tech interviews.

filoleg 3y ago
I am far from being a card-carrying member of the ethics police, but this is a terrible advice even on the most practical level. You are just gonna get fired during your first week once the background check comes through. No matter how much brilliance you manage to demonstrate during that first week or how much your teammates like you, I do not foresee the person not getting fired instantly upon the background check detecting that lie and confirming it as such.
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- givemeethekeys 3y ago
  It looks like you were triggered before you finished reading my comment. Are you sure you're not a card carrying member? :P There's time after the technical interviews and before the background check.
  - filoleg 3y ago
    > There's time after the technical interviews and before the background check. Yes, and? I said as much, you will get to work for about a week or two before the background check results come back, and then you get fired. Or was your plan to just hold an infinite chain of 2-week jobs? I am genuinely confused, which part do you think I had misread that goes against what I said earlier?
    - givemeethekeys 3y ago
      > You are just gonna get fired during your first week once the background check comes through. Why wait until the Background check? Doesn't fired imply getting hired? Do you think HR runs background checks before or after the team greenlights a candidate?
      - filoleg 3y ago
        > Do you think HR runs background checks before or after the team greenlights a candidate? No idea how it is at all companies ever, but i can tell you about the ones I worked at. At both, I was asked to do the background check after i already signed the offer and started work, so after the team greenlighted me (obviously). At the first one I got the results back during my 2nd week of work, at the second one i got it back during week 1. HR definitely checked it after, because they requested certain documentation to prove my previous employment with my previous company. Because the previous company i worked for was merged into another one, so it technically didn't exist anymore, and they couldn't verify with them that I indeed used to be employed by them.
- icedchai 3y ago
  Many small-to-medium sized companies do no background checks, especially if you have a referral from a friend.

filoleg 3y ago

I am far from being a card-carrying member of the ethics police, but this is a terrible advice even on the most practical level. You are just gonna get fired during your first week once the background check comes through. No matter how much brilliance you manage to demonstrate during that first week or how much your teammates like you, I do not foresee the person not getting fired instantly upon the background check detecting that lie and confirming it as such.

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givemeethekeys 3y ago
It looks like you were triggered before you finished reading my comment. Are you sure you're not a card carrying member? :P There's time after the technical interviews and before the background check.
- filoleg 3y ago
  > There's time after the technical interviews and before the background check. Yes, and? I said as much, you will get to work for about a week or two before the background check results come back, and then you get fired. Or was your plan to just hold an infinite chain of 2-week jobs? I am genuinely confused, which part do you think I had misread that goes against what I said earlier?
  - givemeethekeys 3y ago
    > You are just gonna get fired during your first week once the background check comes through. Why wait until the Background check? Doesn't fired imply getting hired? Do you think HR runs background checks before or after the team greenlights a candidate?
    - filoleg 3y ago
      > Do you think HR runs background checks before or after the team greenlights a candidate? No idea how it is at all companies ever, but i can tell you about the ones I worked at. At both, I was asked to do the background check after i already signed the offer and started work, so after the team greenlighted me (obviously). At the first one I got the results back during my 2nd week of work, at the second one i got it back during week 1. HR definitely checked it after, because they requested certain documentation to prove my previous employment with my previous company. Because the previous company i worked for was merged into another one, so it technically didn't exist anymore, and they couldn't verify with them that I indeed used to be employed by them.
icedchai 3y ago
Many small-to-medium sized companies do no background checks, especially if you have a referral from a friend.