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		Sohcahtoa82 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fake job seekers are flooding US companies that ar... Reminds me of one of my favorite stories on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/2xjrdy/whe... tl;dr - Company CTO hires off-shore dev consultant to write an app, the code is horrendously bad, doesn't even fulfill requirements, and has to be thrown out because it's such a bug-ridden mess. Company scrambles to produce the app internally and succeeds. Later, they need to launch a new product, CTO decides to rehire the same off-shore consultant.

pc86 7 months ago [–]

Honestly at the CTO level even making that first hire is borderline fireable depending on how bad it was.

Second time is very quickly approaching "what salary/bonus/options/401k match can we claw back because this is professional negligence" territory.

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