I balk at doing screening tests like hackerrank. I don't get how you can expect someone to spend a probationary week, with no real guarantee of work. they stop the job hunt, tell other employers no thanks, and bang 50/50 pass rate perhaps?
I don't get it. Hiring remote is hard but this seems too much.
If you attract the wrong kind of attention, there are companies that basically provide phoney resumes for candidates who often don’t exist. Typically you interview remotely, encounter technical issues or even talk to a totally different person, and a different guy shows up for the final interview.
For some skill sets, like SAP or Oracle stuff, candidates go to a boot camp, buy a BS resume with fake references, and have a few months of access to a help desk for somebody to walk them through basic tasks.
I thought when you said fraud you meant somebody who says they know Javascript, but it turns out they only know jQuery, or puts SQL on a resume, but doesn't know what an index is.
What it sounds like you are saying is that there is an industry built around getting unqualified people hired in engineering roles??
The one time I took one that was 4 hours it was (luckily for me) a disaster
Apparently it was better than other presentations (even though I didn't get the job) I suspect that I seem to have become to good at my specialisation
Hackerranking is not a good proxy, unless the job is solving online quizzes. Nevertheless, most can't turn their back on a job opportunity at the very first red flag.
You just get cheap and desperate people with good memory who are unlikely to do the research required and produce a solution when they come up against a solution they haven't rote learned.