Zenefits Software Helped Brokers Cheat On Licensing Process
Another source[1] had more info about "<i>The Macro</i>":<p><i>Many of our California sales representatives received access to a software tool called a “Macro” that may have allowed them to complete mandatory online pre-licensing education courses offered by a third-party test preparation provider in less than the legally required 52 total hours. The Macro functioned to keep a person logged into the course and prevented the person from being logged out for inactivity. The Macro did not advance through the required material or quizzes in the education course -- the Macro only kept the person logged in. The Macro only pertained to the prelicensing education course and did not affect the broker exam taken later. Use of the Macro enabled -- but did not cause -- a person to spend less than the 52 hours of required time in the prelicensing course.</i><p>Ok, I have no judgement about the morals of this but I think the "hacker" mentality is hilarious.<p>I was at a Fortune 100 company that had an obligatory "security training" webcast that you had to watch and then at the end, answer some test questions.  This was required to get a door badge and network id.  Well, one programmer simply wrote a script to "watch" the video and automatically answer the questions.  The manager knew we all used it and condoned it because the security video was out-of-date and irrelevant.<p>I can see someone at Zenefits using that mentality and justifying it because skipping the training material gave them no benefit to passing the actual exam.<p>[1]<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/zenefits-using-secret-fake-training-2016-2" rel="nofollow">http://www.businessinsider.com/zenefits-using-secret-fake-tr...</a>