[grawprog]

>One was so bad that they had no idea what a variable was.

I'm curious as to how someone like that could even pass a phone interview. Even if they were cheating, they would have had to have been reading stuff verbatim to answer the interviewer's questions. How was this not at least picked up a little bit during the interview? How could someone with such a small amount of knowledge in the domain trick the interviewer enough that they raised no flags at all during the interview?

[kubanczyk]

By not actually making the call but assigning it to their sibling or their friend, duh. "Phone interviews", so no video.

[coke12]

I think they're implying that someone else took the phone interview for them.