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[-] caboose2006@lemm.ee 39 points 3 hours ago

Yep, his post is pretty unprofessional.

[-] nickiwest@lemmy.world 58 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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?

[-] Dashi@lemmy.world 31 points 3 hours ago

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.

[-] passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world 11 points 2 hours ago

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

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 12 points 2 hours ago

Soft attempt at blacklisting.

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Key word "soft". What a little bitch.

[-] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 66 points 6 hours ago

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

[-] random8847@lemmy.world 29 points 4 hours ago

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

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 24 points 3 hours ago

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

[-] ApeNo1@lemm.ee 147 points 13 hours ago

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.

[-] underwire212@lemm.ee 14 points 1 hour ago

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.

[-] kipo@lemm.ee 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

This is exactly the kind of behavior that modern capitaliam 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".

[-] Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 hours ago

What is a scrum master? Like a rugby coach?

[-] BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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.

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

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

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

[-] BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev 4 points 2 hours ago

Thanks, I figured I was missing some connection.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 9 hours ago

Probably not even a real doctor either.

[-] ApeNo1@lemm.ee 29 points 8 hours 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

[-] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 266 points 14 hours ago

Sounds like someone who got lowballed, said "no thank you", and a CEO with a chip on their shoulder got butthurt.

[-] Whateley@lemm.ee 1 points 47 minutes ago

"What do you mean you don't want to base your livelihood on my bullshit hobby "business" that will completely fall apart within the next two years?"

[-] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 219 points 14 hours ago
[-] grue@lemmy.world 80 points 9 hours ago

One might even call it "unprofessional."

[-] magikmw@lemm.ee 18 points 8 hours ago

Well he did include a disclaimer about his unprofessional behaviour he's posting.

[-] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 109 points 14 hours ago

Not surprising for entitled CEOs, though.

[-] IsoSpandy@lemm.ee 14 points 13 hours ago

It ain't really doxxing though. I personally know 3 people with name Yash Gupta. There are soooooo many people out here man. And worse of all, these CEOs will get away with it because people are ready to code for 20k Indian rupees, (around 250 dollars) a month. It's crazy out here.

[-] vividspecter@lemm.ee 107 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

He gave his name, job title, and the company he works for. That seems like enough to be doxxing.

[-] ech@lemm.ee 73 points 13 hours ago

Bruh. They @'d their place of employment. They're trying to get them fired and blacklisted.

[-] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago

This. This is the real issue here. I doubt his current (I assume - this could also be an old screenshot) employer is going to mind too much his "money-driven mindset" and all that other stuff (I mean - they do know him far longer than Dr. Kashyap does), but they are going to be very interested in the very fact that he was interviewing with another company.

[-] pencil_nerd@mander.xyz 7 points 13 hours ago

Sorry you got downvoted for saying an objective truth. Was still sucky the CEO dork linked to his profile, though.

[-] IsoSpandy@lemm.ee 17 points 13 hours ago

I didn't know that. And I wasn't supporting the doxxing. I want assert how absurd the condition is here out here. If anybody interpreted it differently, I am sorry.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 175 points 14 hours ago

A CEO accusing someone else of having a money driven mindset sure is something.

[-] alaphic@lemmy.world 82 points 12 hours ago

It's a job, not a fucking relationship, what other kind of mindset are you supposed to have?

These people are fucking delusional

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 96 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

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.

[-] Sporkbomber@lemm.ee 2 points 55 minutes ago

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 :)

[-] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 49 points 13 hours ago

Reported. Fuck this asshole.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 16 points 13 hours ago
[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 44 points 13 hours ago

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

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 30 points 13 hours 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.

[-] unmagical@lemmy.ml 111 points 14 hours ago

I can't think of a faster way to make me not want to work for you than for you to post details about my name, current work, and our interview.

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 76 points 13 hours ago

I can't think of a faster way to make me not want to work for you than for you to post details about anyone's name, current work, and their interview.

[-] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Even from a pure selfish perspective, this is the more important issue. That interviewee (who's name I won't write, as to not increase the score of this post when people search it) already can't work there because he failed the interview (or because the interview failed him) and the damage was already done (his name got exposed), but anyone else who considers interviewing with Dr. Alok Kashyap of Yatiken Software should consider this a warning that if they do - their name may be exposed as well.

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 65 points 14 hours ago

Big "you can't quit, because you're fired" energy.

I'm sure people will be lining up to work for you, now!

[-] nman90@lemmy.world 24 points 12 hours ago

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

[-] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

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

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 35 points 14 hours ago

Don't everyone book an appointment all at once, o.k.

[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 21 points 13 hours ago

Unprofessionalism is maybe the least significant critique you could receive. In fact it's a good thing, assuming you're actually doing your job reliably and everybody is, like, safe around you. That's all that matters.

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 13 points 12 hours ago

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

[-] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 13 hours ago

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

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