Interview at IBM Tommorrow(26-Apr-2015)

scottalanmiller

@thanksajdotcom 1 st round of Aptitude and English assessment was carried out.At that time the server issue came to the whole candidate who attended the exam

So, IBM failed the interview on technical grounds? They self-failed themselves? That is insanely extreme. What I'm hearing here is that IBM decided that they are not technically competent to continue the interview process.

scottalanmiller

@thecreativeone91 said:

@Lakshmana said:

@dafyre No there is a server issue during the examination.So I cant able to complete the exam

Definitely not the real IBM if they had an Issue again. This is some scam.

I agree. Nothing in this thread makes the slightest sense for this to have actually been IBM. If this was really IBM the industry trades would have a field day on how incompetent they are.

Whoever this company is, be glad that they failed the interview process.

thanksajdotcom

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

@Lakshmana said:

@dafyre No there is a server issue during the examination.So I cant able to complete the exam

Definitely not the real IBM if they had an Issue again. This is some scam.

I agree. Nothing in this thread makes the slightest sense for this to have actually been IBM. If this was really IBM the industry trades would have a field day on how incompetent they are.

Whoever this company is, be glad that they failed the interview process.

Yes, that's what I'm thinking too.

thanksajdotcom

@Lakshmana, I think you need to accept you're being scammed and that this company pretending to be IBM is NOT IBM.

Lakshmana

@scottalanmiller said:
I have mailed the Manager at IBM,Bangalore and they dont even replied after I have mailed her

@Lakshmana said:

@scottalanmiller said:
I have mailed the Manager at IBM,Bangalore and they dont even replied after I have mailed her

Not surprising. This is some scam.

Lakshmana

@thecreativeone91 If it was scam,why the manager said that I will arrange for the meeting for that process of selection

coliver

@Lakshmana said:

@thecreativeone91 If it was scam,why the manager said that I will arrange for the meeting for that process of selection

They lied to you? Seems like they wanted to get your information for some reason probably credit scam or hiring scam.

@Lakshmana said:

@thecreativeone91 If it was scam,why the manager said that I will arrange for the meeting for that process of selection

Who's the manager? What is the contact information for the manager?

a Scamer will try to make it seem semi-plausible, but it never is. People get scammed by wanting something that's to good to be true so they will try it anyway.

Lakshmana

@coliver said:
I logged into the IBM website only for writing the exam

@Lakshmana said:

@coliver said:
I logged into the IBM website only for writing the exam

What was the URL? And where were you (DNS could be poisoned)

scottalanmiller

@Lakshmana said:

@scottalanmiller said:
I have mailed the Manager at IBM,Bangalore and they dont even replied after I have mailed her

As expected.

scottalanmiller

@Lakshmana said:

@thecreativeone91 If it was scam,why the manager said that I will arrange for the meeting for that process of selection

Because that IS the scam!

scottalanmiller

@coliver said:

@Lakshmana said:

@thecreativeone91 If it was scam,why the manager said that I will arrange for the meeting for that process of selection

They lied to you? Seems like they wanted to get your information for some reason probably credit scam or hiring scam.

Second time this has happened in two weeks. Should not be so surprising now.

scottalanmiller

@Lakshmana said:

@coliver said:
I logged into the IBM website only for writing the exam

From home? It was definitely IBM.com and you did it from your own computer?

coliver

@Lakshmana said:

@coliver said:
I logged into the IBM website only for writing the exam

From a trusted computer or one at an "exam center"? I did a cursory search for IBM written assessment. The questions and the answers for the Indian exam can be easily found online. It wouldn't be hard to spoof an "official" IBM website. Although at that point why go through the effort there are much easier ways to get that type of information.

scottalanmiller

@coliver said:

@Lakshmana said:

@coliver said:
I logged into the IBM website only for writing the exam

From a trusted computer or one at an "exam center"? I did a cursory search for IBM written assessment. The questions and the answers for the Indian exam can be easily found online. It wouldn't be hard to spoof an "official" IBM website. Although at that point why go through the effort there are much easier was to get that type of information.

If they are doing this on scale, and likely they are, they want to be convincing because they get a better hit ration and their risk of being discovered (by the authorities, by IBM, etc.) is far lower. They need plausible deniability to pull it off. How granted, doing that in India is much easier than in the US. Few of us would have fallen for this one here, but even here many would have. I've certainly been tricked before.

coliver

@scottalanmiller said:

@coliver said:

@Lakshmana said:

@coliver said:
I logged into the IBM website only for writing the exam

From a trusted computer or one at an "exam center"? I did a cursory search for IBM written assessment. The questions and the answers for the Indian exam can be easily found online. It wouldn't be hard to spoof an "official" IBM website. Although at that point why go through the effort there are much easier was to get that type of information.

If they are doing this on scale, and likely they are, they want to be convincing because they get a better hit ration and their risk of being discovered (by the authorities, by IBM, etc.) is far lower. They need plausible deniability to pull it off. How granted, doing that in India is much easier than in the US. Few of us would have fallen for this one here, but even here many would have. I've certainly been tricked before.

So the "testing" is just a means to appear legit?

scottalanmiller

@coliver said:

So the "testing" is just a means to appear legit?

Possibly. Or the testing is actually part of the scam. Scams are not only for ID and data. Lots of scams are for harvesting staff in order to sell them later. This is far more common in the US than ID theft. The scams are to get people to quit their jobs, become desperate for work and then sell them to companies at discount rates after having "strung them along" with a fake job.

Sounds complicated and weird. But once you've seen it in action it is very effective and can make them a fortune. Teksystems does this in the US in some offices (Connecticut for example.) They'll make you a fake offer somewhere, get you to drop everything for it, wait until your start date, say it fell through or is on hold, and they'll keep you "available" while they either try to get the actual job at a lower rate and/or find other work that you will accept since you are now out of work and in need of a job.

Had this happen to my tenant in NYC THIS MORNING actually (not with Teksystems, with someone representing GE Capital in Connecticut.) It's super common, especially when relocation is involved.

dafyre

I'm suprised that kind of stuff isn't illegal here in the stats... and if it is, more people need to know about it!