They verified my jobs over the past 5 years. Job 1 was hard to verify because my company used a PEO (https://www.adp.com/resources/articles-and-insights/articl

They verified my jobs over the past 5 years. Job 1 was hard to verify because my company used a PEO (https://www.adp.com/resources/articles-and-insights/articles/p/peo-what-is-a-peo-professional-employer-organization.aspx https://www.adp.com/resources/articles-and-insights/articles...). It’s basically Corporation as a Service. Where you are “co-employed” by the PEO for purposes of health insurance, payroll management, taxes, etc. Bit for everything else the company is your employer. That means IRS statements and your W2 show you working for companies like Insperity or Rippling (a YC company) even though that’s not the company you worked for. The company I did work for had been acquired. Luckily, I’m still friends with the CTO of the startup even though he had moved on. I sent the background check company his LinkedIn profile and phone number. The next company was Amazon and they use TheWorkNumber. The next company I could verify by doing some type of OAUTH between the background checking company and my company’s payroll provider. Previously, I’ve been able to log into the IRS website and get old W2 information to verify employment.