I Got Catfished by a Candidate
The thing I don&#x27;t get is, and probably I&#x27;ll be downvoted to hell because of that, even though this guy lied about his past, his knowledge is solid. Nobody can guess what the interviewers will ask you and from what I&#x27;ve read from the text he aced those.<p>If this is the tech business rolls what I see that it wants developers with a history, with connections, with &quot;clout&quot; so to speak; doesn&#x27;t matter if you can help their business immensely, or fit to the position they are listing for. And this attitude is really really paradoxical. Like you are not searching for a candidate with required skillset but an ideal candidate with required skillset with glowing references. Because why take the risk? Like having a glowing history prevents anything happening...<p>Anyway imho what you are trying to gauge from a job interview is how good that guy&#x2F;gal is. And I&#x27;m sure if that guy did say &quot;I am an newly trained man with no relevant job history&quot; he wouldn&#x27;t go into the interview stage even though he knows his stuff for his application. I mean if he failed that, I&#x27;d say &quot;okay this guy is trying to scam this company&quot; but no, he is able and informed about the position he is applying to. And that&#x27;s totally irrelevant from the text I am reading. Which is bonkers if you pardon my french.<p>This text also reminded me of a quote from Neil Gaiman, he faked his references for his first job and then he worked to create those references(<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;singjupost.com&#x2F;full-transcript-neil-gaiman-commencement-speech-to-the-university-of-the-arts-class-of-2012&#x2F;2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;singjupost.com&#x2F;full-transcript-neil-gaiman-commencem...</a>). In his words he was &quot;chronologically challenged&quot;. So if he was trying to be a writer in our modern times, we wouldn&#x27;t have a Neil Gaiman.