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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

Not sure what they offered him but they probably handed him a settlement

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Soft attempt at blacklisting.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Key word "soft". What a little bitch.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 months ago

Yep, his post is pretty unprofessional.

[–] [email protected] 140 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The "unprofessional conduct" that he's alerting us to is his own behavior, right?

I read that and thought, "Whatever is coming is probably a huge breach of business etiquette." And I was right.

Edited to add: If the candidate's behavior in the interview was so egregious, why would you even waste your time with follow-up calls? It sounds like they wanted to hire the guy, but he wasn't interested in working for them after the interview. Sour grapes, anyone?

[–] [email protected] 96 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would guess the "money-driven mindset" had a lot to do with it. The interview went well, he was a good fit, but they didn't offer him enough. With some back and forth on compensation souring communications enough to make the owner butt hurt enough to post this.

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He might have wanted to run this by an HR person before posting. Asshat is definitely getting sued for this.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The company looks to be from India so he most probably isn't getting sued, sadly.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago (1 children)

CEO's location is listed as "The Greater Chicago Area"

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure this is tortious interference.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Indubitably.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

IKR that money belongs to you, not to him. He doesn’t deserve a cent of it.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Anybody else feel extra bothered by his use of "professional calibration" like workers are just some machine?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Maybe he meant collaboration but he got lost somewhere along the way...

[–] [email protected] 195 points 2 months ago (4 children)

All 3 companies he has “founded” are only 7 months old. Prior to that he has been mostly a scrum master and business analyst. He has no people management experience, no experience in establishing and executing strategies, and this post illustrates all of these short comings.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago (3 children)

This isn’t about this company, but this post just gave me PTSD from a recent interview process.

“Soo, we can’t offer you a salary even though our job listing said we would. But you’ll get 5% stake in our startup, which I’m sure will do great even though I’m using my parents money and have zero business experience! Also no vacation, 60 hour work weeks, oh and no health insurance either. We’re a small business trying to make it work!”

Legitimately had this experience after a fucking 5-stage interview process for some small startup, promising a “competitive compensation package”. I guess I should’ve been more assertive in asking their salary range when they kept giving me vague hints at a bullshit compensation.

Waste of fucking time and money. I could tell they were annoyed that I didn’t treat them as if they were Gods offering me a place in eternal bliss. I said “So you guys can’t offer me an actual salary?” and they had the audacity to come back with “well not everything is about money”…says the dude whose parents gave him $1.5 million seed money to start his own little “marketing” company.

When I declined the offer, they quipped with “Thank you for taking 8 hours of our valuable time to get to learn about the company and drink our coffee”. They also said they would reimburse my parking (city parking) to make the interviews. That never happened. Down about $150 and 8 hours. Did they expect me to fall for some sort of sunk-cost fallacy?

The ego and audacity some of these people have astonishes me. They must be so fucking miserable on the inside.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This is exactly the kind of behavior that modern capitalism produces: money, power, and growth at any cost. Other humans are no longer people or equals, they are tools. Morals and ethics must be left behind to "succeed".

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (6 children)

What is a scrum master? Like a rugby coach?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Scrum is an Agile project management methodology. Basically it centers around iterated short term "sprints" of about two weeks where team members have relative autonomy, and after which there are meetings to consider any emergent issues before committing to the next sprint. It's supposed to be more flexible and responsive than traditional "waterfall" project management, where an entire project is planned out in advance in a linear progression. Funnily enough it actually was named after the rugby term

It's very popular in software development in particular, since oftentimes development can be broken into modular tasks that can be worked on in parallel. Many argue that it's a fad that's been shoehorned into applications where it isn't useful, or that some practitioners focus so much on the structure that they bog down the process with endless meetings.

A scrum master is a specialist who helps an organization implement scrum.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

A scrum master is a fancy project manager. But legally you have to call them scrum masters or else their arms fall off

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Unsure if a joke or not, but in the event of a serious question:

scrum masters are heads of scrum teams, their main purpose is facilitating good work conditions for the workers in the team. This generally means arranging and leading typical scrum meetings, helping workers do their job and shielding them from the Production Owner (the guy that decides what they are to make/deliver during a sprint . (sprints are 2-3 weeks long, where work is done according to a selection done at the start of the sprint and interruptions are kept low during that time.)

I don't want to say that it's an easy roles, but it's more a management type of role than a worker role. In my team the scrum master is also doing development work, since scrum master tasks alone aren't that huge with the way we do things.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Since it seems you are unaware of the origin of the term:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(rugby)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Thanks, I figured I was missing some connection.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Probably not even a real doctor either.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago

It is all suspect. He got his degree in 2016, Masters in 2015, Phd in 2020. The Yatiken he associates himself with on his linked in was started in 2014 so he is not the founder of that Yatiken. There is another Yatiken company registered in 2020 that lists him but amusingly has him no longer being a manager in 2021.

Yatiken 2020

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Money-driven mindset, haha, you do you, Yash Gupta!

[–] [email protected] 116 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7282760585086169089/

Holy hell they're even astroturfing their thread. Report for harassment, it includes doxxing someone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Looks like the post got removed. It says it cannot be displayed.

The link was working earlier as I used it to report the post for harassment :)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

“Only connections can comment on this post.”

Yeah, they’re clearly butthurt from all the constructive criticism.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I reported for harassing, it's the closest things to doxxing I could find

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Reported. Fuck this asshole.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago

It would only be more obvious if they used sock puppets, controlled by the CEO as he tries to use different voices for each one.

One of the bots even copy-pasted the CEO's words as if they were their own.

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