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>I try to avoid startups that have leadership with multiple prior criminal indictments. This is specific enough to look like scar tissue. Anything you would/co

• Bender 5y ago
  Not going into specifics, but some of my early career was working for the people I described. One of them was part of the mafia. They weren't actually that bad to work for but they screwed over a lot of companies and organizations. There were far worse narcissistic sociopath criminals and as one could expect they had zero ethics and all that entails. In some cases these leaders moved in from acquisitions and mergers so I didn't really get to pick who I worked for but rather who I left. With time I learned to research companies and their leadership before starting and this vastly improved my well being.
  • Jugurtha 5y ago
    Thank you for your candor. I look at this from the hiring perspective. When a candidate tells us they love what We're doing and they're amazed by our projects, that's strike 1. I'm like Really ? We've been pretty discreet by design, sometimes by contract, and sometimes by an unwritten rule, on what we do or who we do it for. We've had a crappy generic website that doesn't say much for a long, long, time and the fact they say this is not good. I'm much, much, more receptive to candidates who ask questions and say they have no clue about what we're doing and they want to know more.