<story><title>We created a fake language to root out resume liars</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/groups/CFprogrammers/permalink/10158154545285036/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ALittleLight</author><text>This reminds me of an anecdote I read once, maybe in Liars Poker, about how lots of people applying to this hedge fund put &amp;quot;Chess&amp;quot; on their resume somewhere thinking it made them seem like a deep or strategic thinker. As it happened, at this hedge fund there worked a former Soviet master or grandmaster ranked player. And so, whenever interviewing any candidate who claimed great proficiency with chess on their resume, at the end of the interview they&amp;#x27;d take the candidate to go play the master.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>josephg</author><text>I used to do some work with a software consulting firm. There was a ping pong table in the office, and while talking about rates, our CEO liked to offer clients a 15% discount on our services if they could beat Joe from accounting at ping pong. He did it as a bit of a running joke, and to see how people reacted to the offer.&lt;p&gt;What our clients didn&amp;#x27;t know was that Joe was terrible at ping pong. But that didn&amp;#x27;t matter - from memory he was only ever challenged once in the many years I was there.</text></comment>
<story><title>We created a fake language to root out resume liars</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/groups/CFprogrammers/permalink/10158154545285036/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ALittleLight</author><text>This reminds me of an anecdote I read once, maybe in Liars Poker, about how lots of people applying to this hedge fund put &amp;quot;Chess&amp;quot; on their resume somewhere thinking it made them seem like a deep or strategic thinker. As it happened, at this hedge fund there worked a former Soviet master or grandmaster ranked player. And so, whenever interviewing any candidate who claimed great proficiency with chess on their resume, at the end of the interview they&amp;#x27;d take the candidate to go play the master.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mudita</author><text>So, as a bonus, the ones who were not lying about being good at chess were probably really happy about the chance to play a grandmaster! :)</text></comment>