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My company recently posted an open role and we've been inundated with AI-generated applicants. 404 LinkedIn profiles, near-copies of known real applicants, no-show interviews, artificial voices, the whole gamut. But often the fake resumes are difficult to tell apart from real ones. What strategies are folks using to weed out the fake applicants? I'd like to do something hard to circumvent with AI, but not onerous for real humans, being sensitive to the fact that many people are desperate for work, spraying and praying, and even a small task might exclude them.

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ApolloRising · 20m ago

It may not be possible but charge 1 cent to submit. Should filter out the bots.

daemonologist · 1h ago

You could require people mail in their resume, which costs ~$1 within the US ($2-5 internationally depending on the applicant's location), and is a small amount of hassle without being a disproportionate burden on the applicant's time.

The on-site prior to hiring is a good idea, but I expect you might still get some spam from people applying completely blind.

galaxy_gas · 2h ago

The last place I work do this by requiring an in person to "pick up your laptop" and immediately, many of fake will not bother even enter the pipeline -- and make it well known upfront you will not ship

The people that desperate for employment but legitimate will work the job are happy to take a free flight and hotel and meet some people in the team - it was full remote but had a few in major city so just fly them to a "wework" say hi to a several members free dinner and all.

NK, scammer, body shop that will substitute the worker on day 1 after have someone else fake the interview don't bother in this terms

wnc3141 · 1h ago

I had an employer hold firm on this right after the COVID lockdowns of 2020.

vunderba · 2h ago

This might not be applicable to your situation since it sounds like more of a spam issue, but several of my colleagues who help with the hiring at their companies now require an "on-site" interview because of rampant cheating and misrepresentation by potential applicants.

The amusing thing is that the positions are still 100% remote - they just conduct the interviews at shared workspaces.

firefax · 2h ago

I've been flown out to SF for "remote" role interviews -- I thought it was common that even if the role is remote, you interview on site and might fly out for a brief training, receive your equipment, fill out HR paperwork etc is a reasonable ask assuming costs are covered.

JustExAWS · 1h ago

The company I work for now has 700 people and has no “site”. When I was hired, they gave me a choice of having my laptop shipped directly from Apple or picking up from an Apple Store and I installed the MDM software after I picked it up.

Of course the laptop is registered in the company’s name.

I would be hesitant to work remotely for any company that wasn’t “remote only”.

tgwil · 2h ago

I would consider taking an introspective look at your company and see if you're doing anything that would cause people to view your company as evil. People have quite a fun time wasting evil companies time and resources. It's common for some random person to share a story from a company and then everyone in the group pools their resources together to hammer the company with fake applications.

stevenicr · 1h ago

may be related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45221938 (Justice Department Announces Actions to Combat North Korean Remote IT Workers)

wish someone could recall the npr segment I mentioned in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45058584 (Ask HN: What to do when you suspect your interview is with a state operative?)

mitchbob · 1h ago

This one? It's from a show that plays on NPR affiliates:

https://theworld.org/stories/2025/08/13/meet-the-kyles-north...

loopduplicate · 43m ago

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