Two candidates with genericish names apply for our open SWE role through Indeed.<p>The resumes are nearly identical resumes, and I mean IDENTICAL.<p>Exact same words used to describe past projects, exact same skills listed, and the same most recent position.<p>There are slight differences. They attended different universities, supposedly. One worked at Redfin and the other Amazon, but both "Collaborated on Amazon's internal resource management platforms."<p>The resumes list the candidates' LinkedIn profiles, and both are active profiles with connections and the resume matches the profile info. Both email addresses are valid and match the name (i.e. "JohnDoe382@gmail.com")<p>We did a phone screen call with the first of these candidates. He appears to be a fraud. His interviewer left this feedback: "I'm pretty sure they were using GPT for the interview. The answers that he was reading off the screen made no sense, and he left the call abruptly after 15 minutes."<p>Should we auto-reject the second candidate? What is going on here? I feel that we're being set up for some kind of scam.
It sounds like they are using GPT to make the resume from the same template. People are desperate for jobs and will lie on their resumes and even submit false names and resumes so if one resume isn't chosen the other might be?<p>I'd call just for the giggles and see if it is the same person or using GPT.
It's probably not related, but this was the first thing that came to my mind:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41353079">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41353079</a>
Maybe they are using the same OpenAPI wrapper to blast out resumes?<p>How did the LinkedIn signal degrade so substantially I wonder?<p>Bring back the in-person job fair!
same experience recently. we interviewed both but cut the interview after 10-15 minutes. both candidates had american names but appeared to be of asian descent with heavy accents
Applying two times with the same resume seems dumb. Isn't it more probable that someone stole the other person's resume and just attributed it to themselves? Maybe that second person is authentic.