The public thickening of a technology professional on the alleged ghosts of a startup quickly retaliated after the company’s co-founder retaliated with receipts, triggering a fierce debate on hiring ethics and online behavior.
It started when Ravi Kumar went to X to accuse a startup of ignoring the follow-up emails after an interview. Responding to an article in the co-founder of the startup, Pratham Grover, Kumar said that the candidates did not obtain appropriate updates and said: “If you hire for your startup and did not respond to candidates’ emails, it is a scam alert.”
But the conversation took a lively turn. Grover replied, revealing that Kumar had not erased the interview or the checking of the history. In an blunt article, he wrote: “Hi delighted, you failed the interview, were reported during the verification of the background and exposed as misogynist. Also sampled as a decent human. No surprise here. Cheers, recruitment team. “
Grover attached screenshots of the old Kumar posts, one of which he rejected the concern of a woman concerning the courses by saying to her to “get married” and to “manage a house”. The other tweets included diatribes on the hiring process and complaints concerning automated refusals.
The sputum triggered strong online reactions. Some users have empathized with the frustration of Kumar in the face of the lack of feedback, while others estimated that the click of Grover was justified. “Why was a history check necessary for a candidate who failed the interview?” A user asked.
Reflecting a similar emotion, another user said: “IDK how I landed here, but a little scary that the Twitter screenshots are extracted to check the history. Does this standard procedure mean it as a joke. The e-mail is bad-100% agree on this subject.”
Another intervened: “It is definitely an intelligent decision to check the Twitter profiles. This can reveal a lot about a person. ”
