If you think the issue of devs using fake identities is a problem limited to the Fortune 500: I talked with a 6-person startup who very nearly hired a person who could have been from anywhere else than they claimed, including North Korea. All they know is the candidate used an AI filter to make them look like a Polish person [1] - and this startup recorded when they caught this faker.
This is a full-remote startup and they have now added a mandatory in-person interview to their recruitment loop.
Amusingly, in their case, using local job boards did not help: they got candidates pretending to from Poland or Serbia, yet not speaking the language.
A little sad to see how each episode like this casts more doubt and uncertainty into full-remote interviewing.
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