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This one is interesting. I skimmed some similar Reddit discussions while trying to find this one and it’s usually all mental gymnastics trying to deny the obvious. There is a lot of that, but other people are chiming in with similar experiences.
This comment was interesting:
I hear you. I've spoken two two people on reddit (who reached out to me for advice on how to break into the industry) who had no qualms admitting their entire resume was ficticious or exagerated. Like their degree was real, but they paid for it, and they did attend a tech bootcamp. But they learned nothing, the bootcamp provided the resume, the bootcamp filled in the job experience (which never happened), and if you called any of the numbers you'd get the bootcamp to lie about the experience.
People from Canada and the US are often unfamiliar with the level of corruption in places like India and China. Once you know large scale scam operations like this exist over there it makes you look at those resumes differently.
This is a fellow pajeet who actually went to an expensive, legitimate university complaining about the scammers:
I am Indian. Hated these fuckers during my coop search. I pay 50k yearly for 5 years for my Undergrad and these fuckers with 2-3 years of experience take all the dev roles.
Add Africa to that list too. There are "colleges" that are just degree mills all over the place.
I had a co-worker see a college name on some of the resume's I was going through... he said to just throw that one away.. or any with that college on it. He had worked with someone who "graduated" from one and they were less than useless. They created so much extra work for everyone else with how bad they were that they were fired after a month.
It's because the culture doesn't acknowledge lying as immoral. Complete shithole.
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