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I presume the candidate needs to provide his address. Have someone else google street map it, and then at some point ask "what is the color of your front door?"
by WalterBright 2y ago
I presume the candidate needs to provide his address. Have someone else google street map it, and then at some point ask "what is the color of your front door?" If he takes more than 5 seconds to answer it, end the interview.
- toxik 2y agoIf you can check it easily, so can they. Also I have no idea what my front door color is.
- WalterBright 2y ago> If you can check it easily, so can they Within 5 seconds? I doubt they could load google maps that fast. > Also I have no idea what my front door color is No hire!
- Straw 2y agoWhy does knowing your front door color have anything to do with hiring? You might just be someone who's very focused on things, so much so that you ignore the environment around you to focus!
- WalterBright 2y agoRead the article. It's about detecting laptop farms.
- Straw 2y agoI understand that, my claim is that you'd get false negatives- people who aren't laptop farm users but don't know the color of their front door and aren't at home to check.
- alabastervlog 2y agoSame, I couldn't tell you without checking. We mostly enter through a side door, and the back door. ... and I also couldn't tell you what color either of those are.
- netsharc 2y ago"It's been repainted since the Google Street View car last photographed it." An answer that's also suspicious, because it means they know what you're implying by asking, and they've prepared for it.
- chatmasta 2y agoThat was my answer when I read the question in the comment you’re replying to… because it’s actually true, and I have looked up my house on street view (as many probably have). In fact I’d bet a good chunk of people, especially tech literate people, could tell you the most recent date of Google Street View for their house.
- WalterBright 2y agoYou could ask any question that the resident of a house would know the answer to. Like do you have any trees in your front yard. Is there a McDonald's at the street corner. Do you have a tile or asphalt roof. Do you have a 1 or a 2 car garage. And so on.
- aidenn0 2y agoMy front door is not the same color as the streetview picture, which is almost a decade out-of-date. [edit] Actually over a decade out of date (timestamp says March 2012, but somehow also copyright 2025).