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I'm reminded of a company I've crossed paths with in the past. It's the same people each time, but when they get found out they tear down the old company and er
by bitwize 2y ago
I'm reminded of a company I've crossed paths with in the past. It's the same people each time, but when they get found out they tear down the old company and erect a new one with the same business model under a new name. At first it was called Unbounded Solutions, then it was called BrighterBrain, and now it's called EnhanceIT.
Their whole deal is, they will offer you a "free" crash course in mobile development (or whatever the new hotness du jour is, these days I'm sure they have AI offerings). I believe the course lasts two months, after which they will prepare a fake résumé for you, apply for contract positions in your name, and have call-center people in India do the phone interviews on your behalf, pretending to be you. You are also coached in how to lie about your experience for the in-person interview. You are obligated to work for two years at wherever they place you (could be one place or many places, I guess). If you do not agree to all of this, you will be assessed a $20,000 charge for your "free" training and billed for such.
The principal in all three companies is Vikram Thadani. He's been running this scam in some form or another since the early 2010s.
Their current site: https://www.enhanceit.com https://www.enhanceit.com
Old blog post about someone who got skeeved out applying to work for them when they were BrighterBrain:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150308193650/http://shifttohappy.com/2014/06/20/integrity/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150308193650/http://shifttohap...
More recent Reddit post about the same shit going on under the EnhanceIT name:
https://www.reddit.com/r/careerguidance/comments/v63p2t/enhance_it_has_anyone_heard_or_worked_at/ https://www.reddit.com/r/careerguidance/comments/v63p2t/enha...
- soneca 2y agoHey, I mentioned you in my comment elsewhere on this post. Checked your recent comments and found you here. You were right in 2019, despite being downvoted. Good call. Congrats https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19774532 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19774532
- bitwize 2y agoNo worries m8, fwiw I HATE being right about this sort of thing. Unbounded/BrighterBrain/EnhanceIT probably sprang to mind when I read that comment of yours way back when, hence my response. For anybody out there, if you want to gain coding skills but cannot or do not wish to do a four-year degree program, community colleges in the USA can help close that skill gap for a price much more reasonable than a boot camp. Consider those, or state universities, and potentially save yourself a whole lot of trouble getting caught in a costly trap.