“Experience”

There is or was someone at Codemsith at a very high level that does background check calls to back up people's experience and a process for doing these checks. Source: someone inside Codesmith EDIT BASED ON FEEDBACK: "to back up people's experience" does not mean to confirm lies or anything specific. I'm unaware of what happens in the calls and can't comment either way. My comment is that there is a process for doing background checks where someone backups the information you provide them. From my discussions, IN GENERAL people don't disclose it's not work, unless asked, but will never say that it WAS work. So presumably a background check call would not involve confirming it was "real work" but rather it was some other relationship. Ultimately, I don't know, but I want to make sure it doesn't come across that I was implying that the former.