A story of how a final year student with lofty credentials joined our small team.

Denis Bolkovskis

Anthropic

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A software developer recounts his experience working in a small German startup during the COVID-19 pandemic. The company hired an intern named Stefan without a technical interview, who then struggled significantly with programming tasks. The story reveals how Stefan deceived team members by leveraging their help in different programming languages, only to show the borrowed work as his own. The author uncovers Stefan's dishonesty, leading to the intern's eventual departure from the company.

The Clever Programmer

And we have 10x developers who can’t convince anyone to hire them. Selling yourself is the first skill you need to develop.

Sounds like Stephan might have a future in politics.
One wonders how he thought he could just manage to bs his way through the job forever.
Curious, did you eventually confront him about the situation or just let him go? It certainly feels like he needed that.

We had a guy like that, he mascaraed as a developer while in reality he absorbed my words, and replayed to other developers. They got impressed and they said other interest things he later replayed to still others. I fixed his code because he made silly mistakes but later I discovered that he claimed to others that he wrote it.
I think he lasted 6 months.