<story><title>A Story of a Fraudulent Coder</title><url>https://shakycode.com/the-story-of-the-fraudulent-coder-d4c6fcf273f7#.6c4pnbe4x</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ohstopitu</author><text>A few friends of mine did exactly the same. They still have their jobs (btw, both are Software Engineers).&lt;p&gt;1. He had 0 idea of coding, or why something was done - basically copy paste from github&amp;#x2F;stackoverflow and call it a day.&lt;p&gt;2. She has some basic understanding, but basically got into CS because she had heard that SE&amp;#x2F;CS Majors made &amp;quot;big bucks&amp;quot; and she thought she &amp;quot;knew computers&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Both graduated 4 years later, just as clueless but with degrees. When it came to interviews, both had 0 idea of the questions asked - to the point that I gave up helping them (if you can&amp;#x27;t do fizzbuzz, linked lists etc in any language or even psudocode, then you should really learn that first).&lt;p&gt;So they decided to do exactly what &amp;quot;Brian&amp;quot; did - downloaded a few of my public repos, uploaded as their own (btw it&amp;#x27;s funny because my name and email is on the README, and on almost every file - autogenerated with IntelliJ&amp;#x2F;Webstorm).&lt;p&gt;Somehow they land interviews, and both of them gets jobs at this fancy startup (making way more than me). One of them realizes that she&amp;#x27;s way over and since I was not helping, she decided to outsource it to Fiverr. She&amp;#x27;s been there 2 months and no one seems to raise any issues.&lt;p&gt;At times like this I kinda loose a bit of faith in our community - If that was what was needed, Why am I getting paid less to do more honest work? :&amp;#x2F;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>csydas</author><text>Don&amp;#x27;t be disheartened - most industries are like this, and it even has an idiom &amp;quot;fake it till you make it&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;My current work allows me a pretty decent look at literally thousands of different IT infrastructure set ups by this point only half a year in, and I&amp;#x27;m still explaining the basics of IT administration, infrastructure, SQL queries, and so on to people with the title &amp;quot;Senior ______&amp;quot; and a list of certifications that adds a good 4 MB to each of their emails for all the banners.&lt;p&gt;Try not to worry about it, and don&amp;#x27;t enable them either. Be professional, but be firm. I won&amp;#x27;t promise that they will get their comeuppance or that you will be rewarded, but you can at least leave every day not having to look over your shoulder or double checking that you covered all your bases. In the long run, you&amp;#x27;ll have the knowledge to do what is necessary for future growth in your career, they will have to keep inventing new ways to fake it.</text></comment>
<story><title>A Story of a Fraudulent Coder</title><url>https://shakycode.com/the-story-of-the-fraudulent-coder-d4c6fcf273f7#.6c4pnbe4x</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ohstopitu</author><text>A few friends of mine did exactly the same. They still have their jobs (btw, both are Software Engineers).&lt;p&gt;1. He had 0 idea of coding, or why something was done - basically copy paste from github&amp;#x2F;stackoverflow and call it a day.&lt;p&gt;2. She has some basic understanding, but basically got into CS because she had heard that SE&amp;#x2F;CS Majors made &amp;quot;big bucks&amp;quot; and she thought she &amp;quot;knew computers&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Both graduated 4 years later, just as clueless but with degrees. When it came to interviews, both had 0 idea of the questions asked - to the point that I gave up helping them (if you can&amp;#x27;t do fizzbuzz, linked lists etc in any language or even psudocode, then you should really learn that first).&lt;p&gt;So they decided to do exactly what &amp;quot;Brian&amp;quot; did - downloaded a few of my public repos, uploaded as their own (btw it&amp;#x27;s funny because my name and email is on the README, and on almost every file - autogenerated with IntelliJ&amp;#x2F;Webstorm).&lt;p&gt;Somehow they land interviews, and both of them gets jobs at this fancy startup (making way more than me). One of them realizes that she&amp;#x27;s way over and since I was not helping, she decided to outsource it to Fiverr. She&amp;#x27;s been there 2 months and no one seems to raise any issues.&lt;p&gt;At times like this I kinda loose a bit of faith in our community - If that was what was needed, Why am I getting paid less to do more honest work? :&amp;#x2F;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jstanley</author><text>&amp;gt; Why am I getting paid less to do more honest work? :&amp;#x2F;&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;re optimising for doing good work. They&amp;#x27;re optimising for landing high-paying jobs.</text></comment>