At my old company, before I retired, we used to do tech interviews over the phone with candidates in India. The candidates were wizards, they could answer any question. However, when they actually showed up for work, they seemed to have forgotten everything they knew.
So a decree went out that all interviews must be conducted over Skype. The candidate had to hold up his passport with his picture at the beginning of the interview. The problem stopped, but the prices went up.
Companies all got wise to substituting ‘ringers’. I wondered why at my last few online tech tests, I had to ‘proof’ myself. I know why, now.
BTW: My last test, .NET 4.5, I scored a 96% percentile.
I’m a triple-badass. :)
Man you sound like your company got conned.
Some organizations are like that.
I’ve had both American and Indian recruiters offer to pay me well to go on interviews out-of-town. I told them I’m not interested in out-of-town. Their response is:
That’s OK. You interview well. Once you get the position for us, we will send them someone else who doesn’t interview well. Most of the time they won’t even remember or notice. If they do notice, we’ll make some excuse and they will accept our excuse.
Satyam used to be famous for doing this Indian only. They had a small number of people who had legal papers and interviewed well. They would get the job. Then they would assign the name of the person with legal papers to the unqualified worker. They would have a dozen consultants using the same set of legal papers. They all look alike, you know.