The great DevOps hiring scam

You’ve been scammed — tricked into hiring an imposter!

You’ve heard this story right? You start up a video interview thinking something’s just a bit off… The video feed is really laggy, and while your memory isn’t perfect you could swear the candidate’s accent is a little… different today from the first time you talked. And that headset, with the big mic right in front of their mouth, it’s distracting. But all this aside, your candidate has all the right answers and, on the pair programming part of the interview, code just flies from their fingers. This is exactly who you’ve been looking for — “hire them now!”

And you just got scammed — tricked into hiring an imposter. The person you just interviewed wasn’t on screen, they were tapped into the call pretending to be your new hire.

Turns out, it’s actually a pretty big business.

There’s a whole industry out there that guarantees landing a job. They’ll craft a candidates resume, and use a little bit of technnology and a few simple tricks to get through the interview. They tell the candidate, “D…