Ask HN: Is `Crossover' a legitimate employer?
Recently I almost got lured by a company named Crossover [1], but a quick google search for - pardon me - "crossover scam" returned a number of threads, e.g. [2]. Anyway, I clicked the `apply' button and I was redirected to their website with the same job description... and half the salary.
What makes me even more suspicious:
- lots of companies are listed under their TX address. Some of them have or had similar modes of operation [3]. Some of them are claimed to be their clients (e.g. `DevFactory' IIRC).
- People on Stackoverflow are discussing this very same question [4].
- They answer the following question in their own FAQ: "Are you one of those Nigerian scams?" (sic) [5]
- Offered job titles seem overly inflated. Are there that many Software Architect vacancies?
- Whenever somebody brings up this topic some other noname kicks in with their love story.
- I never heard of a piece of work done by them nor about a client of theirs.
If the company is NOT legitimate then where is the trap? If it is - then why worry about "Nigerian scam"?
[1] http://stackoverflow.com/jobs/companies/crossover
[2] https://www.quora.com/Is-CrossOver-too-good-to-be-true
[3] http://gteamexposed.blogspot.com/
[4.1] http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/264115/there-seems-to-be-a-fake-company-on-careers
[4.2] http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/317896/the-crossover-job-ads-have-a-funny-smell
[5] https://www.crossover.com/faq