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Fake job seekers are flooding US companies that are hiring for remote positions

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182 points arizen | 4 comments | 09 Apr 25 12:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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jeswin ◴[09 Apr 25 13:18 UTC] No.43631738[source]▶
From this month's HN hiring, we might have received 30-40 resumes so far. Out of that, we have interviewed (or scheduled) around 20. There were no fake resumes; in fact we got very high quality resumes this time. There weren't any fakes in the previous months as well (in noticeable numbers).

I am not saying it's not happening. But we haven't seen it happen on HN.

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1. skeeter2020 ◴[09 Apr 25 13:51 UTC] No.43632105[source]▶
HN doesn't seem like a very lucrative pool for scams like this one. You don't see many meh corporate development jobs posted here, which are they ones you can fake for months or years. Hard to do that when you're working daily with the founder or a smaller team.
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2. scarface_74 ◴[09 Apr 25 14:25 UTC] No.43632525[source]▶
You give way too much credit to the types of companies that get YC funding. I’ve seen a lot of meh corporate jobs posted here with corp dev type wages.
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3. teqsun ◴[09 Apr 25 19:47 UTC] No.43636911[source]▶
What would you call "corp dev type wages"?
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4. scarface_74 ◴[09 Apr 25 20:29 UTC] No.43637553{3}[source]▶
Starting salaries around $70-$80K, senior salaries around $140K-$160K and “architects” around $175K.

This is in the Atlanta market where I use to live before I started working remotely and moved. I got this email from a recruiter there. It’s about the same in most major non west coast markets

(Starting on page 26) https://motionrecruitment.com/hubfs/TSG-25/Atlanta-IT-Salary...

Compare that to any of the BigTech or adjacent companies where entry level developers are getting return offers from their internships of $150K-$175K.