Codesmith Grads - Stop lying on your background checks. Your OSP is not 'employment history'. I've received a number of couple of people having trouble with background checks because they put their project as 'work experience'. STOP.

The questions I normally ask that specific Codesmith grads have lied about and their story fell apart: 1. What other roles did you work with (e.g. PM, design, operations, support, legal, HR, marketing, PR, release engineering) and give some examples of those 2. What was the engineer - PM ratio 3. How does the company make money and what's the business model 4. What were things that worked well and didn't work well with your manager? On a resume: 1. if you see the word OSLabs or OpenSource Labs listed anywhere, immediate sign. We had to train our team on this because Codesmith grads were being flagged in the wrong bucket for Formation based on their resumes as team members who were not trained did not know the difference between a job and project and the amount of time specified was 1+ year. This is normally right beside a section called "Open Source Projects" so it appears more legit. It is just an open source project too but by placing it beside a separate section of projects, it leads you to believe that the OSLabs one is a company. 2. Companies you haven't heard of with under 10 employees on LinekdIn. Do extra checking before giving the person credit 3. Education history with no majors or dates listed and just a school name