North Korean IT workers have infiltrated the Fortune 500

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> But AI has emboldened the North Korean scheme, allowing the IT workers to develop scripts so they can hold down as many as six or seven jobs at a time

How do you get interviewed, hired and payrolled by seven jobs, at once? Are North Koreans in fact 10x developers?

The fact that them prompting an interviewee to trash talk the DPRK would make them start swearing is pretty funny

More RTO ammo. Fradulent job-holders can't show up at in-person jobs, especially for multiple employers.

I’ve contended since the beginning that final round interviews/power days should always be done in person. This gets tricker with small fully remote firms, but I see no reason a coworking space couldn’t be arranged for an interview

100%

With automated hiring spam and our industry's apparent tenuous grasp of basic integrity with actual HN posts proudly boasting of their apps to help you cheat during interviews using LLMs, several of my friends who assist in hiring at their companies have already returned to "on site" interviews to cut down on the proverbial chaff.

The amusing part is that these are still 100% remote jobs -but the interviews are conducted at shared workspaces.

https://archive.ph/lnPar

>Bojan Simic, CEO of identity-verification firm Hypr, built a product specifically for companies to verify people’s identities because of the North Korean threat, he told Fortune

Bojan's PR firm tells an entertaining story.

There is no place for normal candidates in this industry anymore. It's an absolute psychotic shit show.

Between the natural born sociopaths and decent people being stressed to no end, I don’t see this getting better anytime soon.

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