Most of the time I don't pull external sources (a repo, files, etc.) onto my laptop. Maybe I've passed up some opportunities, but every company that hired me ne

Most of the time I don't pull external sources (a repo, files, etc.) onto my laptop. Maybe I've passed up some opportunities, but every company that hired me never asked me to install anything: they either used a known live-coding platform, or shared their private repo read-only so I could look without pulling it and then create my own repo to share back. I also try to talk to people at the company, but I mean employees I can verify independently, not whoever the recruiter puts in front of me. From the stories here, the person on the call can be the scammer, so a convincing conversation isn't proof on its own.