Candidate fraud isn’t just a recruiting problem. It’s a company-wide risk, too.

Ari Garcia, Global Recruiting Operations Lead at Quora, joins Shannon to break down how hiring teams can partner with security, leadership, and with tools like Ashby to address fraud without compromising the candidate experience.

With nearly six years at Quora, Ari brings a systems-focused lens to solving cross-functional challenges inside a fully remote, global organization. She shares how her team built alignment across departments, trained interviewers to stay focused on signal over suspicion, and developed criteria for identifying fraud, which keeps the process fair and efficient.

The conversation also explores the weight of false positives, the risks of moving too fast, and why fraud detection can't sit with recruiting alone.

Key takeaways:

1. Candidate fraud is a business issue: Hiring one wrong person can jeopardize trust and security.
2. Partnerships make the process: Aligning with security and leadership ensures stronger prevention.
3. Candidate experience still comes first: Interviews must stay human even when suspicion is present.
4. RecOps drives clarity: Building systems helps teams act with confidence, not guesswork.

Timestamps: 

(00:00) Introduction

(00:14) Meet Ari Garcia

(03:06) Why candidate fraud is rising across remote companies

(05:18) How to build cross-functional buy-in on fraud

(07:19) Using tools like Ashby to flag fraud signals

(10:46) Protecting candidate experience while preventing false positives

(15:35) What Ari would do differently starting from scratch

(18:14) Evolving fraud detection with RecOps and security partnerships

(22:50) Why hiring fraud hurts business goals and trust

(24:14) Final advice for making fraud prevention a priority