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Ask HN: Have you experienced “hiring fraud?”
I put hiring fraud in quotes because I'm not sure what else to call this and there isn't enough space in a title to explain it.<p>Basically my company interviewed a candidate who was fantastic. Checked all the boxes, nailed the interview, and had extremely relevant work experience. We made an offer. He accepted. A few weeks later on his first day the guy in the Zoom was definitely not the guy I interviewed. All the other interviewers agreed. Not the same guy.<p>We've had a number of candidates in the pipeline who seemed to be obviously lying about their identities who didn't make it to an offer but this case seemed different somehow. I cant quite put my finger on it.<p>I'm just curious to hear how many of you have experienced something similar. Is it common? Is there something obvious I'm not thinking of to help avoid these situations?<p>We may have passed on other candidates because of the strength of this one guy. This has put us in a pretty unfortunate position.<p>Some maybe noteworthy facts: we're a 100% remote company. The candidate was US based and said they didn't need visa sponsorship. They only spoke to one in house recruiter, an HR rep, and 3 people in engineering for the interviews. I discovered after the fact that one of the name brand companies on their resume was actually not the company we thought it was but one with the exact same name in a different industry.
Show HN: Get conversational practice in over 20 languages by talking to an AI
Hi everyone,<p>Let me introduce you to Quazel, where we want to enable people to talk their way to fluency.<p>We have all tried various language learning apps and tools, however, one aspect of language learning current services are really bad at is conversational practice. You might get a chat-like interface, but in the end, the conversation partner will only respond with a predefined "if the users say X I say Y".<p>With Quazel that's completely different. In completely dynamic and unscripted conversation you can talk about pretty much anything you want. For example, you can try ordering food at a restaurant and even hold a philosophical discussion with Socrates. Additionally, you can analyze the grammar of your responses or use hints to help you out when you get stuck.<p>We want to change how languages are learned from a grammar-centric approach to a more natural, conversation-focused one.
Show HN: Get conversational practice in over 20 languages by talking to an AI
Hi everyone,<p>Let me introduce you to Quazel, where we want to enable people to talk their way to fluency.<p>We have all tried various language learning apps and tools, however, one aspect of language learning current services are really bad at is conversational practice. You might get a chat-like interface, but in the end, the conversation partner will only respond with a predefined "if the users say X I say Y".<p>With Quazel that's completely different. In completely dynamic and unscripted conversation you can talk about pretty much anything you want. For example, you can try ordering food at a restaurant and even hold a philosophical discussion with Socrates. Additionally, you can analyze the grammar of your responses or use hints to help you out when you get stuck.<p>We want to change how languages are learned from a grammar-centric approach to a more natural, conversation-focused one.
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Someone is pretending to be me
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