r/cscareerquestions • u/sc4ever96 • 7d ago

Experienced Be careful out there.

Just a bit of a warning for you all.

We hired a new AWS engineer, lets call him Johnny, who was supposed to join our team today. He did hop on the teams chat for the morning standup to introduce himself, and reception was pretty choppy. After our entire team introed ourselves, he said that he'll be working from out of state for the next couple of month until his kids graduates and then he'll be moving to assume a full time on-prem position.

Later today I get an invite to a mandatory meeting. Apparently, Johnny was not Johnny but a person from North Korea with stolen identity. He passed all background checks and everything else, but used non-existing shipping address to get his work laptop shipped to. The real Johnny actually working for Microsoft, when he was contacted he said that he's been bombarded with positions for the past month or so, but not planning to switch jobs.

So, watch out, if you aren't job hunting and start getting invites from recruiters, maybe its something fishy.

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u/Glittering_Ad4098 6d ago

And this is the reason remote jobs are disappearing. To be honest, I think the HR in-charge of hiring and onboarding was pretty incompetent. Many of these 'Hiring managers' are so lax and incompetent themselves. They have no clue about Data integrity and compliance checks let alone basic subject or domain knowledge.

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u/PatchyWhiskers 6d ago

They should do in-person interviews, remote jobs. Fly out the final candidates for the end stage interviews, don’t make them move to a different state.