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points by CommanderData 4 days ago | 0 comments
It's strange companies haven't cracked something as basic as remote hiring checks yet.

There are tools available to stop AI screen recording tools, fake candidate tools yet many companies keep getting hit..

[–] lbriner 4 days ago
Not as easy as that, these can be real people with genuine businesses across the other side of the world, which sounds like what happened here. They only have to seem friendly and genuine before asking you to perform a coding test or whatever.

Unfortunately:

1) The dev downloaded it onto a work laptop which was really poor behaviour

2) It sounds like the developer environment was very open instead of segmented. Common but an easy control to use in a high-risk environment.

3) Sounds like a lack of any elevation process e.g. if a developer needed to access a wallet, it very much should sound an alarm/require explicit permission etc.

But it is easy to be wise in hindsight.

[–] CommanderData 4 days ago
It seems in this case really poor behaviour and practices, I can imagine some security engineer shouting I told you so pretty loudly.

On the other end, when doing interviews I suspect 40-50% of candidates use AI assistant tools (might be skewed in tech).

I do miss seeing someone's camera feed break or AI tool break down mid interview.