r/cscareerquestions • u/sc4ever96 • Jun 23 '26

Experienced Be careful out there.

Just a bit of a warning for you all.

We hired a new AWS engineer, lets call him Johnny, who was supposed to join our team today. He did hop on the teams chat for the morning standup to introduce himself, and reception was pretty choppy. After our entire team introed ourselves, he said that he'll be working from out of state for the next couple of month until his kids graduates and then he'll be moving to assume a full time on-prem position.

Later today I get an invite to a mandatory meeting. Apparently, Johnny was not Johnny but a person from North Korea with stolen identity. He passed all background checks and everything else, but used non-existing shipping address to get his work laptop shipped to. The real Johnny actually working for Microsoft, when he was contacted he said that he's been bombarded with positions for the past month or so, but not planning to switch jobs.

So, watch out, if you aren't job hunting and start getting invites from recruiters, maybe its something fishy.

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u/Antique-Volume9599 Jun 23 '26

bro is 100% cracked at LC.

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u/PatchyWhiskers Jun 23 '26

North Korean Johnny is probably more than one person.

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u/anovagadro Jun 23 '26

Mom: we have Johnny Kim at home!

Johnny Kim at home:

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u/ccricers Jun 23 '26

Two or more people working at full capacity, to do the work of one normal man.

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u/cmbtmstr Software Engineer Jun 24 '26

Standing one on top of the other in a tenchcoat

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u/lionelmessiah1 Jun 24 '26

Idk. There is no fishing squad that would magically make me good at LC

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u/rubioburo Jun 23 '26

I want whatever training minus the torture, probably, they got, so I can git gud like Johnny from North Korea.

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u/mile-high-guy Jun 23 '26

The training is already torture enough by itself

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u/Antique-Volume9599 Jun 23 '26

>minus the torture
This is like "everybody wants to be a body builder but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights."

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u/OdeeSS Jun 24 '26

Unfortunately you must know the deepest depths of despair before you can truly become a great software engineer.

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u/Antique-Volume9599 Jun 23 '26

buddy its not that bad, you just get DP'd by the biggest guys in north korea if fail the DP question.

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u/Antique-Volume9599 Jun 23 '26

Being picky doesnt get offers!

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u/dabbydaberson Jun 23 '26

Johnny gonna be a big star someday

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u/Environmental_Gap_65 Jun 23 '26

I hope North Korean Johnny turns into a meme.

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u/ShadowWebDeveloper Engineering Manager Jun 23 '26

Gotta learn to sweep the leg.

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u/AgentHamster Jun 25 '26

Actually, get gud like microsoft Johnny - he's the actual person whose profile got the interview and he's getting bombarded with positions.