How to lose a job you never had… Twice!
Another gem from work.
We’re looking to hire a senior frontend developer. I was given a resume that came in via a headhunter and was asked to comment on it. After eyeballing it, I went to the candidate’s portfolio site.
The third item on his web portfolio looked kind of familiar. In fact, it was one of my company’s primary sites. Wow, that’s quite a coincidence!
The accompanying writeup stated that “Working as an Independent Contractor and given a visual design and graphic file, I hand coded the following Web page mock-up using XHTML and CSS for a newly designed Web site’s home page.”
Naturally, that piqued my curiosity, so I did some investigation. The page he produced “as an Independent Contractor” was actually nothing more than a tech test we used to give to prospective frontend candidates.
That’s right: candidates. This was not work that he was ever paid for, there was never any pretense it would be put into production, nor was his work good enough to earn a job offer the first time around.
And clearly he has no chance in hell of landing the same job a year later, based on (1) his willingness to lie about his experience, and (2) the fact that one of his highest accomplishments is completing a tech test from a job interview.
Come on buddy… Get a job.