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[โ€“] rmuk@feddit.uk 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So they hired a professional interviewee to be interviewed for them? Amazing. I wonder how you'd get that job, and what the recruitment process would be like?

[โ€“] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is not uncommon in IT type jobs with individuals from a certain country. I was at lunch with a coworker when he was approached to do an interview for a cousin of one of his friends. I must have looked puzzled because he explained it to me and I was flabbergasted. He said that it was more common during phone interviews, but since "they all look the same" to white hiring managers, it still happens over video interviews.

[โ€“] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Hate it when I do an interview with Don Cheadle and Terrence Howard shows up

[โ€“] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

It's more they have a friend that speaks better English do the interview and hope that big companies don't notice a difference when they start the job.