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Why campus funnels are a special threat model
Campus hiring concentrates shared prep communities, leaked question banks, high stakes for first jobs, and organized “interview-as-a-service” networks. Proxy candidates, remote-desktop ghost coders, wearable devices, and stealth AI apps show up more often when volume is high and identity is thin. Controls that work for a 40-person experienced-hire slate often fail at 4,000.
- Impersonation and proxy taking at scale
- AI cheating apps during timed assessments
- Remote-desktop handoffs mid-test
- Leaked or recycled assessment content across colleges
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What the Infosys deferment taught the market
In June 2026, Infosys deferred online assessments and in-person evaluations for more than 20,000 Specialist Programmer and Digital Specialist Engineer applicants after detecting impersonation and malpractice, then added verification guardrails. The lesson for every large employer: detection without a recovery plan still freezes the funnel. Build identity, integrity, and retest paths before the next wave-not after a public pause.
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Identity before content
If you cannot trust who is sitting the assessment, scoring content is theater. Layer government ID or approved identity checks, liveness where appropriate, device binding, and in-person or hybrid verification for final offers. Match friction to stage: lighter at early screens, heavier before offer.
- Stage-gated identity assurance
- Consistent candidate notice about verification steps
- Escalation path when identity signals conflict
- Hybrid online + in-person checkpoints for critical roles
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Assessment design that resists industrial cheating
Rotate item banks. Prefer scenario and debugging tasks over canonical LeetCode clones. Require ownership probes in live rounds. Freeze versions per wave so you can reconstruct what candidates saw. Pair skills scores with verified behavioral evidence for judgment and communication-areas where ghostwriters and overlays still struggle under follow-ups.