<story><title>Chinese Thesis Ghostwriting Scandal Reveals Huge Gray Market</title><url>https://www.caixinglobal.com/2018-09-15/chinese-thesis-ghostwriting-scandal-reveals-huge-gray-market-101326436.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aldoushuxley001</author><text>&amp;gt; Always ask the candidate to walk you through the repo line by line!&lt;p&gt;That seems a bit much, you&amp;#x27;re liable to scare away good talent that way.</text></item><item><author>xkcd-sucks</author><text>Yeah so do all these fucking bootcamp graduates who copypaste their classmates&amp;#x27; code into new repos and star each other. Always ask the candidate to walk you through the repo line by line!</text></item><item><author>ausjke</author><text>Not just that, github is abused in china now, you pay and they will set up a repo for you, star it for you, so you can show your potential employer &amp;quot;your&amp;quot; github repo, it&amp;#x27;s a business operation now.&lt;p&gt;There is another group of people that will take the phone interview and the remote online coding test for you until you get an onsite interview, since not all phone interview has video chat. That too helped quite some to get accepted into good companies eventually.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gaius</author><text>&lt;i&gt;you&amp;#x27;re liable to scare away good talent that way&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;People, in general, like to talk about themselves, and engineers like to talk about their own code. &amp;quot;See this if statement, well there&amp;#x27;s a funny story behind that...&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;A few years ago I interviewed a candidate who mentioned Github on her CV but no actual URL. What&amp;#x27;s your username on there, I asked, let&amp;#x27;s look at some of your code. She refused and said she didn&amp;#x27;t want me to look at it. Then why did you mention it on your CV I asked? Because she was told she had to, she said. All in all a weird experience, probably for both of us.</text></comment>
<story><title>Chinese Thesis Ghostwriting Scandal Reveals Huge Gray Market</title><url>https://www.caixinglobal.com/2018-09-15/chinese-thesis-ghostwriting-scandal-reveals-huge-gray-market-101326436.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aldoushuxley001</author><text>&amp;gt; Always ask the candidate to walk you through the repo line by line!&lt;p&gt;That seems a bit much, you&amp;#x27;re liable to scare away good talent that way.</text></item><item><author>xkcd-sucks</author><text>Yeah so do all these fucking bootcamp graduates who copypaste their classmates&amp;#x27; code into new repos and star each other. Always ask the candidate to walk you through the repo line by line!</text></item><item><author>ausjke</author><text>Not just that, github is abused in china now, you pay and they will set up a repo for you, star it for you, so you can show your potential employer &amp;quot;your&amp;quot; github repo, it&amp;#x27;s a business operation now.&lt;p&gt;There is another group of people that will take the phone interview and the remote online coding test for you until you get an onsite interview, since not all phone interview has video chat. That too helped quite some to get accepted into good companies eventually.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stingraycharles</author><text>I do try to talk a lot about their own projects during interviews, though, since I can only assume they like to talk about it.&lt;p&gt;And it can lead to very interesting discussions, you learn a lot about a candidate that way.</text></comment>