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Need to add this: The cheating does not stop at the interview. We have had folks completely Bs their way through the interview process, and get hired. Once onboard, they cover up the fact that they don't know anything by having other people do their work. In one case, I noticed the guy was constantly getting help from those around him. I told the others to stop helping him so we could see what he could do, and that turned out to be nothing. The most egregious case was a guy who committed no code during the day. A software engineers complete their work, they will essentially save their work (commit) to the main software repository. This guy only did it at night. He would sit in the office on his phone all day. This was a huge red flag that someone else was doing this work. Before I could even sit down with the guy and talk about it, cybersecurity contacts me. Someone in India was logging into his virtual machine at night, and doing his work. Instant termination.

With AI, this all gets more complicated, because software engineers are being encouraged to use AI! Hard to know if the person actually knows how to code, or are they really good at giving AI prompts. And stranger still.....do we care? As long at they are using approved internal tool sets, and the work is getting done, do we really care? Such a strange world....