I have been on the other side, people wanting to hire me to be the front-door either take interviews or the front-door with customers, the last time I was offered $xx/h + 20% from each project's revenue.
It's a real problem which makes it harder for people like me that are legitimately working remotely. This has existed for a long time but it wasn't as popular because remote working was unpopular before the pandemic.
> Really frustrating because it's making us have to do silly things like require photo ID verification over video on the first screening call
Unfortunately, this wouldn't solve it, a person can join the calls and get someone else to do the work.
Same here - I was recently offered an "interview support" job by one of these body shops in a far away Asian country, which I immediately rejected. The role would've been to help candidates pass interviews using tricks (cheats, really) like the ones that've been brought up in other discussions before.
If you're good enough to pass a senior dev interview, you're probably also capable enough to create some kind of SaaS tool/plugin for applicant tracking systems (or directly in Zoom?) to help employers identify fake/real candidates.
You have potential to make a lot more money catching these bad actors rather than enabling them.
Darknet dairies has an interesting episode about this: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/133/
It's a real problem which makes it harder for people like me that are legitimately working remotely. This has existed for a long time but it wasn't as popular because remote working was unpopular before the pandemic.
> Really frustrating because it's making us have to do silly things like require photo ID verification over video on the first screening call
Unfortunately, this wouldn't solve it, a person can join the calls and get someone else to do the work.