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Discussion on: Have you ever seen anyone "fake" their way into a software development position?

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To expand on my own writing,
HR or recruitment agency does not have an initiative to find you the perfect match.

The HR person does not get sacked or bear any cost if they do a bad hire, the developer which switched jobs does pay the cost in frustration, lost income and black mark on their resume.

The recruiting agency might lose some reputation, but in the end of the day if they found perfect matches, nobody ever would switch jobs - so their core business (skilled and experienced devs) would become victim of their success.

Unless we are talking about a junior dev (in which case it would be expected they are clueless), and they went for a hail Mary, there is very little sense in faking it, and setting themselves up for disaster.

What is incredibly common however is to get hired for a job, and then wonder why they hired you with certain skill, but the job is something quite else than what was discussed and tested.

I have been hired with react, and then the project I got was vue without ever using it before, any guesses how that went?