I was once pulled in to observe (in the “are you seeing this shit?” sense) an interview where someone off screen was answering questions and the person on camera was moving his lips. I’m not sure if they wanted me to share in the joke, or verify that there was no form of latency that would make lips and audio fail so badly to line up. I’m pretty good at pattern matching. There was no pattern. It was two guys pulling a fast one. Or at least trying to.
This was an outsourcing group. In the grand scheme of things, “white people are stupid” is not entirely wrong, but there’s a line you know. And there are lines beyond that line. And then there are these assholes off in the distance.
Had similar while hiring for a Sr Dev. The person who first joined the call was not able to articulate any of the frontend or backend work they had done at the previous contracted company.
Call goes static, call drops.
"Person" rejoins. Who is obviously a completely different person who was able to thoroughly fill in the previous details missed.
We ended the call there. Mistake: didn't require video for the session when the first individual proclaimed they were having issues with video.
I’m floored by this. We have a sr engineer who conducted an initial technical screen and swore he saw this happening, the person on screen moving his mouth while someone else talked and wrote the code. My managers recounted this story to me, laughing because they thought the suspicion was ridiculous and that the interviewer was just being paranoid (they had not been on the call). Turns out he was not paranoid…
> Sounds like they’re stealing that salary, not earning it.
On the contrary – if someone has been at a company for 9 months & had terrible early reviews, the company had about ~6 months to deal with them. In my experience, truly bad hires get lukewarm 30 day feedback, negative 3 month feedback, and are on a PIP soon after.
If you're there after 9 months, it suggests you've demonstrated some level of value to your employer.
I can assure you there are plenty of underperforming, incompetent and even flat out absent employees cozied up in hidden little niches at all kinds of companies that don’t let them go for a variety of reasons.
This was an outsourcing group. In the grand scheme of things, “white people are stupid” is not entirely wrong, but there’s a line you know. And there are lines beyond that line. And then there are these assholes off in the distance.