Turning the fake-interview npm scam into a hiring filter: sandbox it and you're hired
max_paperclips · x · 2026-11-14
Responding to the wave of fake-interview scams that trick candidates into running malicious npm installs, one developer proposes flipping the scam into an interview gate: set up a deliberately suspicious-looking task and hire anyone who insists on sandboxing the git clone and install inside a secure VM first.
The post admits it's "an obvious scam interview" but a funny way to filter out engineers who clone and run code blindly — a security-consciousness test smuggled into hiring.
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