It’s sad that this works. You’d think especially software professionals would be the most vigilant about running unknown code.
I run interviews, and a lot of applicants can’t write code. So they’re probably going after low-hanging fruit like that.
Makes sense, I feel bad for the guys that were happy for a chance and got screwed over. (By the hackers, not you, haha)
Some tips for people, real companies won’t:
- ask you to buy anything and get reimbursed later to start a job
- require personal info like SSN in the interview process (will be handled by a separate HR process)
- offer you a job during the first interview
Be careful out there!
This is low. Imagine if you’re unemployed, doing rounds of job interviews and got hit with this mess.
It’s like they want me to give up finding a job when half the job interviews are fucking scams.
“nObOdY wAnTs tO wOrK aNyMoRe”
Yeah, I was pretty skeptical with my current job:
- Recruiter contacted me, I didn’t contact them
- Interview done by Indians, full remote
- I had never heard of the company
But everything checked out, and I love the job. It’s not a tech company, but it has the best parts of one (proper AGILE processes, separated QA, dev, and devOPs roles, modem tech stack, etc).
So be careful of scams, but not so careful you miss out on great opportunities.
1 Is pretty standard in the industry for people with experience. I haven’t actually applied to any jobs myself in a while. Job hunting for me is sifting through the recruiter messages that hit my inbox.
Yup, a lot are nonsense though. There are so many that are like “we want you to come work with us,” and then I can and it’s no different than me sending in a resume normally, they just want to expand their hiring pool.
But whatever, I hate looking for jobs, so it’s nice that I didn’t have to try to hard this time.
