Singaporean startup founder here who moved from the US. I have yet to meet a psychopathic CEO here in Singapore, but I've met and heard about quite a few in Silicon Valley / Bay Area. It may just be selection bias (a lot more companies are founded in the Bay Area) but I wonder if there's something more. Any other insights into Bay Area startups vs. international startups here?
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#22How common is this behavior at startups in Silicon Valley? Can anyone share similar stories or point me at other posts?
As with any geography/industry, there are some people with questionable morals. It's nothing unique to SV or startups.
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#23okay i can understand why the title got changed. but why to what it is currently? feels like a "missed the lede" kinda title which isn't any better than the original title.
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#24The biggest red flag for me is when no one at the company (even the founders) have experienced the problem their product is solving!
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
jobsonic.com = expired squarespace site...
On crunchbase they are now wrkriot: http://www.wrkriot.com/team-1/
Landing page:
> WrkRiot pulls signals from your resume and matches them to job posts. That's right, we do the searching for you. We'll be updating this section with videos, walk thru's and more.
"walk thru's"? This website looks like garbage
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#26Is it a bad sign that all SW engineers were on H1B visas? Why wouldn't they hire any from the US?
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#27"Jess is now CMO, still posting memes, pushing her own agenda, and still taking credit for my work."
If a man had written this, they'd be accused of being a misogynist, and they wouldn't be posting under their real name.
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#28Is it a bad sign that all SW engineers were on H1B visas? Why wouldn't they hire any from the US?
For control. A US employee can walk away from the sinking ship any time without too much repercussions, not the case for foreign nationals staying on company sponsored visas
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#29The biggest red flag for me is when no one at the company (even the founders) have experienced the problem their product is solving!
There's a huge difference between starting a company that will fail on (lack of) merits, and being unethical to your employees. Huge.
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#30Is it a bad sign that all SW engineers were on H1B visas? Why wouldn't they hire any from the US?
I got the impression that the "founders" are Chinese and were only hiring H1B's because 1-They too are Chinese, 2: Cheaper than local. 3: easy to control with the H1B hanging over their heads.