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Comment by stronglikedan | Hacker News Reader

> Are companies really doing 100% remote interviews, as in: you sign the offer letter without even meeting a single person in person??

You're dating yourself with that question. (yes, and they have been for a while)

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The funniest interview I had, in a similar sneaky question, were the HR guy asked "so you wrote city X, I am also living here, whereabouts do you live?" and I turned the laptop and showed through my window a very unique skyscraper and a super marker right across my flat, and the guy recognized my building because his gf lived in the same building (had more than 100 flats), and we both had a laugh about it. (I got the job later but after having 2-3 more rounds of domain-specific interviews) Those days the "AI" was not around so I wouldn't be able to fake that even if I wanted.

EDIT: I also had interviews with Credit Suisse some years back (decade or so), they wanted me to speak to some people in the US and London, but didn't allow the video conference from home, but they asked me which major city in Europe I was in, so they book some meeting room in their own offices or some WeWork facility in case I was somewhere where they wouldn't have offices.

it's not even a new thing, certain companies were doing it before the pandemic. for a long time. I took my first offer at a remote company in 2012 -- I only met any of those people by chance, years later.

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