Likely spam, pseudo-impersonating Jetbrains. <@U1...

# meta

[Chris Lee]

Likely spam, pseudo-impersonating Jetbrains. @Alina Dolgikh [JB]
https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C1NNEMDBK/p1737052652869619
https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C01AAJSG3V4/p1737052566079489

[Chrimaeon]

Also in #C69DSR2AW #C01AF93UXRN and some more.

[Stefan Oltmann]

JetBrains staff also already confirmed that it’s phishing.
That’s even worse than spam.

If JetBrains has a lawyer I guess it’s time to file a lawsuit.

[Chrimaeon]

Where do you see the need of a lawsuit. There are just talking about creating an IDE for KMP. Why shouldn’t they be allowed to do this?

[Stefan Oltmann]

I think it’s unlikely they actually create a KMP IDE. This looks like referring to the KMP IDE JetBrains is planing and they make it look like that the survey is for that.

[Chrimaeon]

But assuming something will not hold any lawsuit. 😅

[Stefan Oltmann]

Yeah, someone from JetBrains will need to check what’s actually going on, of course.

[Chrimaeon]

They don’t even use a Jetbrains email address.

[Stefan Oltmann]

Very suspicious.

[Chrimaeon]

Now you have something 🤣

[Stefan Oltmann]

If that’s true, you’d write that upfront.

[Chris Lee]

its sometimes hard to distinguish spam/phishing from incredibly-poor-execution 🙄 .

[Stefan Oltmann]

It’s a strange interview process step, too.

That would stop by „design a survey and send it to us for review“

[Stefan Oltmann]

JetBrains won’t send surveys that go to gmail addresses.

[Stefan Oltmann]

I wonder why the account is still active.

[Alina Dolgikh [JB]]

Hi! Sorry, I responded to a couple of people in DM and forgot to follow up here (as I received multiple reports from different people). I deactivated the account yesterday for safety reasons. However, I’ve since confirmed that the author is our candidate, so I’ve restored his access.

[Stefan Oltmann]

Thanks for letting us know.

I’ve since confirmed that the author is our candidate

Whoever came up with this idea, I would not recommend repeating it. I hope the feedback reaches the appropriate person in charge.

[Chris Lee]

its sometimes hard to distinguish spam/phishing from incredibly-poor-execution 🙄 .

Huh. Questionable approach.

[Alina Dolgikh [JB]]

Yes, sure! We didn’t encourage the candidate to approach the test assignment in this manner. We’re also adding a note that this approach should not be used by future candidates. Feedback has been provided 💯
Thanks again for reporting the situation!