A Story of a Fraudulent Coder
A few friends of mine did exactly the same. They still have their jobs (btw, both are Software Engineers).<p>1. He had 0 idea of coding, or why something was done - basically copy paste from github/stackoverflow and call it a day.<p>2. She has some basic understanding, but basically got into CS because she had heard that SE/CS Majors made "big bucks" and she thought she "knew computers"<p>Both graduated 4 years later, just as clueless but with degrees. When it came to interviews, both had 0 idea of the questions asked - to the point that I gave up helping them (if you can't do fizzbuzz, linked lists etc in any language or even psudocode, then you should really learn that first).<p>So they decided to do exactly what "Brian" did - downloaded a few of my public repos, uploaded as their own (btw it's funny because my name and email is on the README, and on almost every file - autogenerated with IntelliJ/Webstorm).<p>Somehow they land interviews, and both of them gets jobs at this fancy startup (making way more than me). One of them realizes that she's way over and since I was not helping, she decided to outsource it to Fiverr. She's been there 2 months and no one seems to raise any issues.<p>At times like this I kinda loose a bit of faith in our community - If that was what was needed, Why am I getting paid less to do more honest work? :/