Re: Bobs Track Builder Pro Cheat Code For Pc
Rocki Stenger
It is very common in the IT certification test world to cheat in various ways. The most common is that people take the exam and memorize the questions they saw. The questions are then compiled and published. Some have tried to have someone else take the exam for them, but the testing companies have done a lot of work to make that hard (multiple IDs required to take the test). The testing companies require you to go to a testing center and you take nothing in to your exam with you and you under video surveillance the whole time.
Certification tests typically pull the questions for a given exam from a pool of questions. A normal test is maybe 50 questions from a pool of 200 questions. If you memorize the answers to all 200 questions you can pass the test without really knowing the subject.
There was a news crew on site doing a story on this the day I took my series 7 exam. A bunch of people were arrested for this exact scam. They made a business out of taking securities exams for other people.
I hate the high stales testing / certification bloat that often has little bearing on actual performance, just ability to take tests. But i agree the ethical violation of cheating would make me think that person should not be in a position of trust/authority!
I haaaate these testing situations so much! I remember this from when I took the GRE quite a few years back. I have dysgraphia and some minor motor control and working memory issues, so I am going to need a special pencil (I need a cushion to make it a little bigger so I have more control) and probably more scratch paper than most people will since I both write bigger AND need to write more stuff down to compensate for the memory stuff. (I also probably need to wear a hat with a brim to block overhead light glare.)
And knowing that you were likely to be looking at that problem again meant that (motivated) students were going to be working the dog out of those problems and asking lots of questions about them in class.
When I took my patent attorney certification, old exams were actually provided by the patent office itself (so the org doing the testing!). It was *the* recommended way to study. We were also allowed to take anything we wanted into the exam, except things that could communicate with the outside. Of course, they had to make a whole new exam each year, and it was quite expensive to take.
This. The only case I can see this working is if the candidate can do the work, but sucks at interviews, and even then it would be more productive to practice your interview skills than engage in this bizarre con.
Everyone seems to forget that some positions come with a significant sign-in bonus. Often tens of thousands of dollars. If you pull this up a few times a year, you can earn a decent living by only working a few weeks for the whole year.
Unfortunately a lot of software engineering interviews are questionably related to the actual on-the-job duties. It is *very* possible to be an excellent engineer and also terrible at software engineering interviews.
Now that I think about it, the last interview I hosted was a simple Vue.js front-end position and I just gave the candidates a sandbox version of the last couple features I made to see if they could make them. Worked!
Entry level admin support. Completely different field, we just needed to know she was organized, reliable, and had experience answering to someone. It was not the only item on her resume, or even the most relevant, but it was interesting, so I asked about it.
A friend was doing a phone interview where he could hear the interviewee typing after each question the he asked. So my friend googled the next question on the loop and lo! the interviewee basically read him the first hit on Google.
A senior IT role likely pays six figures. Depending on geographic location, $150K would not be totally out of the realms of likely as a starting salary for a seasoned late career employee, more for a management role. So you pay someone to do the interview (or possibly have a partner, but that seems less profitable all around), then just stall.
Happened to me at a previous company! We had a particularly well-known tech interview we had all engineering candidates do and we had a suspicion that a particular boot camp was coaching/helping candidates cheat on the interview. We had one candidate apply for a role and we had one of the more senior engineers who ran this interview do it and it was going perfectly until the interviewer threw a curveball at him and the candidate was flummoxed. He failed miserably and we rejected him. I made sure to note that the candidate was caught cheating in his record in our ATS. He did apply again once or twice a few years later (applied using a nickname and different email) and I caught it and he was rejected promptly.
I thought perhaps the call dropped, so I waited a few moments, and then called the candidate back. I ended up calling back a total of 3 times, and I sent an email to the candidate to see if we could re-schedule due to bad connection, and I never got a response. The recruiter who arranged the phone screen also reached out to the candidate, and did not get a response. I shared this with a few co-workers, and they have heard rumblings of similar situations lately.
This is very common in the IT consulting world unfortunately. One guy hired would have to go to the parking lot anytime he was asked a question. On day 3 he was confronted and asked to a meeting to discuss. He said yes, he just needs to go to the bathroom first. And then he left and never came back.
Forgot to add: When I took it, you tested until you failed. So I studied for No Code Tech, but they had me take the General test as well. (I would have had to take the code test if I passed.) Our examiners were all members of the local club.
My husband is a professor at a large university and his very first graduate student did this. The student was based in a foreign country and obviously got someone to do the phone interview for him and take his English exams because when he arrived, homie spoke barely any English. They had to revoke his admission and his visa.
This sort of happened several years ago at my place of work. We hired a Linux admin who then spent his first two weeks completely failing to understand his job or even what was being asked of him most of the time. It was clear that his entire process involved copying and pasting anything that seemed relevant from Stack Overflow.
Yes, very common with H1Bs in IT. One person interviews, another shows up. They will also ask for help in forums and WhatsApp groups.
Saw this happen and the company figured it out and had the person out in less than an hour.
Yes, ghost interviewing happens all the time (just like ghost writers who will write your novel or nonfiction book for you). People also will sometimes subcontract their work (on freelance dot com and similar), so they can take credit for the work while sharing a tiny percentage of their wages with some poor bloke in south Asia. This is why there is still no substitute for in-person interviews and working on site. A fully virtual world is simply not yet possible.
I left shortly thereafter but the entire thing smelled of kickbacks from the recruiting/staffing firm to the manager because he was utterly uninterested in what I was telling him to the point of him telling me directly to stop making waves.
Frankly, my sympathy lies with the store, after I got in trouble for NOT taking a credit card with a photo ON IT. The photo showed an elderly black woman. The person using it was a nervous, furtive skinny white kid trying to buy one of the most expensive laptops we had.
The manager tried to force me to put it through, I put my foot down and made her do it. The write up was rescinded after it turned out the card was stolen. The manager was in trouble for the $1800, not me. :p
I interviewed for my job via Zoom and had to show photo ID (passport) to an HR person before the interview started.
Of course, if you were really committed to a scam, you could just get a fake ID.
In the UK most professional jobs go through an external recruitment consultancy, and they insist on proving your ID before they will even put you forward for anything. It can be annoying, but it keeps everything legit.
This! My spouse recently interviewed for a position in a different country (as part of us emigrating to that country), and at the first round interview with the internal HR recruitment person, he was required to hold up his passport to his face, and I think sent a scanned copy of the photo page too. Obviously eligibility to work in the country was a factor too, but they said at the beginning that they do it with all first round interviews, for all roles, not just senior IT / security roles because weird stuff happens, especially when everything is remote.
I work in libraries, and we issued a local card for reduced rates at sports centres etc. People had to bring in proof of age and a passport size photo. My favourite was a gentleman in his 80s handing over a black and white photo of him in military uniform from WWII. I had to regretfully ask him for a more up to date one
A number of years ago I had someone break into my apartment (window was not completely latched) and steal my VCR. The next day when cleaning up the bookcase he had toppled over, I found his ID card. A prison ID card from being previously incarcerated (I assume for theft, breaking and entering?)
There are companies that are so disorganized that John could get away with this for a long time. I was once offered a gig to develop a system to track the work contractors were producing because the company no longer knew how many contractors they had or what they were doing. They knew a bunch of contractors were sitting on the payroll getting paid and doing nothing because no one was keeping track of the work.
I was once reorged off the org chart, but kept on the payroll. Nobody knew what I was doing or who I reported to. I could have coasted for months at least while producing as little as I felt like. It still boggles my mind when I look back on it.
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