I used to do a lot of interviewing of prospective hires at my last job (I’m a programmer). It was not at all uncommon to ask a candidate a question and then hear multiple voices whispering in the background along with frantic keyboard tapping sounds, and the candidate would take 5-10 seconds before answering. I just don’t understand what their thought process was for even attempting this - it earned them an immediate “no further action”.
I won’t say what country all of these candidates were from. It would be obvious to anyone in this field.
Was reading a resume, and at the bottom is said something along the Iines of “Does this one look better Mom? I added a few closed businesses like you recommended.”
It started kinda sweet but dumb, then quickly moved on to the “do not consider for future positions” list.
These measures seem kind of pointless with how many undetectable options there are for cheating in an online exam.
There is more than that in these kind of exams.
When doing a Microsoft certification exam they require:- camera footage of you doing the exam
- screen recording while doing the exam
- microphone recording while doing the exam
- a 360 view/footage of the room youre doing the exam in.
This is so that they can catch any type of cheating you could do. The camera footage is only part of the checks.
Cory Doctorow has a short story about this kind of surveillance hell, and the disproportionate damage it does to neurodivergent kids.
Audio version: https://craphound.com/littlebrother/2024/09/29/vigilant-a-little-brother-story/
