They wrote, “I helped my team interview a candidate a couple weeks ago.

I really liked the guy.

But they got quite a surprise when this new hire turned up for work.

A woman in a professional setting reviews a document with a man during a job interview. Office supplies are visible on the desk.

But when I get there, all I see is some tall white guy with wavy brown hair.

I said, ‘That doesnt seem to be the guy we interviewed.’

Faked resumes are also rampant.

A person is holding a resume during a job interview. Another person is seated across the table, visible from the chest down. A laptop is open on the table

A guy interviewed well and showed up on camera to meetings for the first week or so.

We asked him repeatedly to turn on his camera, but he always had ‘technical issues.’

Eventually, the tech lead was able to get him on camera, and the original guy showed up.

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One HR repsharedthat their company has changed its interview policies because of these kinds of situations.

With the more extreme differences you noted, you may be misremembering.

Someone elsesaidthat something similar happened to them because they’d changed their appearance a bit for the interview.

Two professionals engage in conversation while walking down an office corridor. One holds a tablet, the other a folder. Both are casually dressed

Id taken my piercings out, put makeup on, done my hair, and dressed up.

Then, on day one, I turned up as normal me.”

While somequestionedwhether the poster may have mixed up interview candidates.

Person in a home office participates in a virtual meeting with nine people on a computer screen. Documents and a coffee cup are on the desk

“Are you 100% positive that you didn’t confuse Josh with one of the other candidates?

Was his interview in-person or virtual?

I would trust your instinct and attempt to escalate the issue.”

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Five professionals sit in a row in an office; the sixth person, standing, hands a document to one seated individual