"He crushed the interview": Silicon Valley duped by software engineer secretly working four jobs

[lonetac]

It’s a**holes like this who ruin it for other remote workers. THIS is why companies are demanding employees go back to the office. Can’t even blame em when nonsense like this is going on.

Yes, its a problem with remote work. Ive seen it in my hirings and interviews as well. We let someone go who we suspect was working 3 jobs. How did we find out? Just hold folks accountable to their objectives. When working remote, if you are evaluating and assigning objectives out effectively, the ones who are not working get exposed VERY quick. It may take a month or two but the picture will become crystal clear. Its the only way to weed these guys out.

Exactly, I tend toward over-production working from home to show I'm not f34$#^@ around.

Same and most folks that I know in my org of 20k+, they do the exact same. The ones who dont get exposed very quickly on performance and missed objectives.

There is no reason you need to stare over someone's shoulder to evaluate if they are working or not. Have measurable goals and deliverables. Are they meeting them? If yes, who cares what they are doing. If no, on to the next.

 

[calvinblanes]

As long as u can deliver what u r expected, I don't see problem with this.

 

[Bluescreendeath]

Big firms are laying off by the multiple thousands, telling us it’s AI, yet hundreds of thousands of H1B visas are hired each year.

Is he even an H1B? The article said he was in India and working from India, which means he isn't even an immigrant and didn't work in the USA (H1Bs are immigrants on work visas).

 

[BadThad]

Yes, its a problem with remote work. Ive seen it in my hirings and interviews as well. We let someone go who we suspect was working 3 jobs. How did we find out? Just hold folks accountable to their objectives. When working remote, if you are evaluating and assigning objectives out effectively, the ones who are not working get exposed VERY quick. It may take a month or two but the picture will become crystal clear. Its the only way to weed these guys out.


Same and most folks that I know in my org of 20k+, they do the exact same. The ones who dont get exposed very quickly on performance and missed objectives.

There is no reason you need to stare over someone's shoulder to evaluate if they are working or not. Have measurable goals and deliverables. Are they meeting them? If yes, who cares what they are doing. If no, on to the next.

Exactly! Any well managed organization WILL have projects with performance objectives and timelines.

The problem stems from poor management and their failure to accurately keep tabs on the progress of such projects within their group. FIRE THE MANAGER AND THE MULTI-JOB EMPLOYEE.

 

[bclaymiles]

Here's a 'mind blower' for the youngsters out there. Way back in 1998, while I was a minor partner in an ISP startup, we were bought out and being merged with three other ISP's. At one of the other ISP's, their network engineer worked 100% remotely. For a long time people suspected he was working full time somewhere else. As part of due diligence for the merger, they forced his hand and requested that he begin coming in to the office to assist directly with merging the networks. He balked, delayed, gave excuses...

Then quit.

Remote worker scamming is definitely not a new thing.