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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: 0.868s | source
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specialp ◴[09 Apr 25 13:31 UTC] No.43631863[source]▶
Another remote employment fraud that is much more prevalent is "Overemployment". You will get an applicant that is very skilled and hits the interview out of the park. But then when hired they are working many jobs and just trying to steal as many paychecks as they can until you fire them. They keep their first jobs resume clean and they all check out.

There is a Reddit community with over 400k members to show how prevalent this is [1]. There's lots of tactics like not allowing mentions on LinkedIn so they can't be publicly mentioned and seen by other unsuspecting employers, and just maintaining plausible deniability about why they can't make an on camera meeting. It is technically not illegal so it is very lucrative and hard to detect.

https://www.reddit.com/r/overemployed/top/

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meindnoch ◴[09 Apr 25 17:07 UTC] No.43634550[source]▶
I'm doing exactly this, while working at a FAANG. My second and third jobs actually know I have a main FAANG job, and they have no problem with it. And I have no qualms about "stealing" from FAANG this way, sorry. In fact, my perf review at my main job is a mixture of "meets expectations", and "exceeds expectations".
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dockerd ◴[09 Apr 25 17:14 UTC] No.43634636[source]▶
@meindnoch,

What do you do in your second and third job? How did you find it?

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1. meindnoch ◴[09 Apr 25 17:29 UTC] No.43634813[source]▶
My second job is consulting for my previous job which I've left to make more money at FAANG. My third job is consulting for a company where a friend of mine works. I gave him useful advice on some problems he was working on, and he connected me with the higher ups.

All three jobs are software engineering. C++ mostly.

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2. sixothree ◴[09 Apr 25 19:27 UTC] No.43636610[source]▶
How many hours per week do jobs 2 and 3 consume?
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3. meindnoch ◴[09 Apr 25 20:56 UTC] No.43637882[source]▶
Officially or actually?
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4. wltr ◴[10 Apr 25 12:29 UTC] No.43643135{3}[source]▶
I’d love to know both numbers, it’s an interesting story. I’m agree with you here, yet I think consulting is just different. You gain your expertise at job-1 (FAANG), and then you just use those skills at jobs 2 and 3. I think it’s not that simple, but I guess could be simplified that way.