iOS developer Vyacheslav Gudzenko shared an unusual job search story on LinkedIn: a recruiter suggested he go through polygraph with home visit as part of the hiring process for a middle-level position. What happened next?
iOS developer Vyacheslav Gudzenko shared an unusual job search story on LinkedIn: a recruiter suggested he go through polygraph with home visit as part of the hiring process for a middle-level position. What happened next?
According to the specialist, he responded to a vacancy that seemed relevant to his experience. The recruiter contacted the candidate on Telegram and, among the standard questions, asked about his attitude to working in the gaming niche, as well as to passing a polygraph test.
When the candidate replied that he was not ready to specifically go to another location to take a polygraph — particularly given the security situation and constant shelling of large cities — the recruiter offered an alternative: specialists with a polygraph could come to his home.
«To say I was surprised is an understatement. The first reaction was: 'Maybe they’re scammers?'» the AIT resident wrote .
The developer himself notes that the polygraph requirement for the middle position seemed strange to him, but he decided to clarify the details. In the description, the company positioned itself as a «game provider», and only later it became clear that it was about gambling.
Ultimately, the candidate declined to participate in the hiring process. Reasons included both the idea of a polygraph for a regular technical position and his reluctance to work in the gambling business, which he calls a «gray niche.»
In his post, the IT worker also addressed the community with questions about whether polygraph specialists would agree to go home and how IT workers feel about polygraphs in «regular» IT positions (not miltech).
Developer Oleg Klyapko says that he would gladly go through it, just for his own experience, by signing an NDA not to disclose information about me to anyone.
Vera Kvust, HRD, said that a polygraph examiner can visit a specialist even abroad. «I once asked, ‘What do you suggest if I’m abroad?’ And the answer I got was, ‘The Polygraph Examiners Association of Ukraine has now expanded all over the world, a specialist will come to you wherever you tell me.’ And then I saw that there really is a company with Ukrainian roots in my city that provides these services,» she noted.
PM Iryna Azarova says that polygraphs are a very common thing in gambling. «It doesn’t hurt, it’s not scary, it doesn’t take long. However, I would rather go to them than have them come to my house,» she noted.
