[eric_b]

This used to happen to a company I was consulting at all the time. It was mostly in the context of hiring H1B workers from India. The company would interview "the ringer" in India - the guy was poised, articulate, knew the answers to all the questions etc. etc. But the guy who showed up didn't know anything, usually had difficulty with the language etc. This was pre-Zoom so it was all phone screens, making it much harder to be sure.

However, years later I was telling this story to a Wipro recruiter who said casually:

"Oh yeah, we call it the Hindu Switcheroo" (I kid you not)

[daggerdrone]

I wonder why they didn't just call it the "Indian Switcheroo". Why would it be named after a religion?

[boojing]

Probably because "Hindu Switcheroo" rhymes

[csomar]

India is derived from "Hindu". It rhymes and in some languages, it is the same.

[chupchap]

India is derived from the river Indus. As in the land around and beyond the Indus. Hindus came later as a way to describe the people and religion of the people in the region. Now it refers to the religion alone and not the people.

[the_snooze]

It rhymes.

[augusto2112]

Because it rhymes :)

[kumarvvr]

I guess it was a bit of a rhyming play.

[digianarchist]

Stuff like this happens on IELTS exams which is why they started asking for ID, taking photographs and fingerprints in some cases.