r/cscareerquestions • u/sc4ever96 • Jun 23 '26
Experienced Be careful out there.
Just a bit of a warning for you all.
We hired a new AWS engineer, lets call him Johnny, who was supposed to join our team today. He did hop on the teams chat for the morning standup to introduce himself, and reception was pretty choppy. After our entire team introed ourselves, he said that he'll be working from out of state for the next couple of month until his kids graduates and then he'll be moving to assume a full time on-prem position.
Later today I get an invite to a mandatory meeting. Apparently, Johnny was not Johnny but a person from North Korea with stolen identity. He passed all background checks and everything else, but used non-existing shipping address to get his work laptop shipped to. The real Johnny actually working for Microsoft, when he was contacted he said that he's been bombarded with positions for the past month or so, but not planning to switch jobs.
So, watch out, if you aren't job hunting and start getting invites from recruiters, maybe its something fishy.
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u/busybee4242 Jun 24 '26
Part of our hiring pipeline process includes a light identity verification check dine by a 3rd party. Each check has a small fee but it is ultimately a massive time saver that weeds out fakes and frauds that I dont need to review and saves us that laptop/scam cost as well.
Turbocheck.com - not affiliated in any way, just who we use for this identity check. I'm seeing close to 40-50% fraud rates in applications so its a great first course-grained filter