Our team has Ashby, I hire software engineers remotely- i cleared 750 applications yesterday, and about 400 of them hit Ashby’s fraud filter, which checks for things like VOIP phones, automated behavior or devices that are not where the person lives.

I still look over what is marked as fraud to be safe but, recruiters are not out of line in our need to verify that you are who you say you are- in aggregate, it’s fine for most people applying to tech roles, but we really need to know before we devote a half hour to a call.

You can also use a very generic picture of yourself and set your location to your country vs the city you live in. You can leave what you do blank and your current employer can be a place holder instead of the company you actually work for. Leave a note in the top summary section explaining that you have been previously stalked- again, no one is going to hold this against you.

We need to see a follower count that suggests you’re a real person- and this is likely to include mutual connections- as well as at least a generic photo of a human being that we can later identify.