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Not only that but the ENTIRE TEAM SECTION ON THEIR WEBSITE (worthitsolutions.co) IS A BLATANT LIE. Not one of those people is real. Every single biography link

Not only that but the ENTIRE TEAM SECTION ON THEIR WEBSITE (worthitsolutions.co) IS A BLATANT LIE. Not one of those people is real. Every single biography link leads to Lorem Ipsum. It's a shady, secretive sweatshop operating out of Lahore, Pakistan.

p5a0u9l 5y ago
Yup, and a couple of the stock photos of "Our team" are duplicates. Crazy. How does an outfit like this get hired?
- b20000 5y ago
  well, how did HR get through YC?
  - mkl 5y ago
    They're talking about the company HackerRank hired to do DMCA takedowns, Worthit Solutions.
    - b20000 5y ago
      i know
  - orangepurple 5y ago
    You don't become a billionaire by writing too many checks. Hence why they outsourced their goon squad to Pakistan.
    - b20000 5y ago
      that is not what i asked. why did YC fund hackerrank? sounds like a shitty idea and bad for our industry.
      - behringer 5y ago
        That's what vc companies do...
      - sobkas 5y ago
        > that is not what i asked. why did YC fund hackerrank? sounds like a shitty idea and bad for our industry. Idea of assigning number to a person and then judging that person based on that number? How it could happen in real world... Also if people are willing to pay for it (even if they don't know about it yet)in capitalism it is a good argument to pump money into it. Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31052764 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31052764
- perihelions 5y ago
  Here's an archive.org snapshot of the evidence, for future archivists: https://web.archive.org/web/20220420062828/https://worthitsolutions.co/our-team/ https://web.archive.org/web/20220420062828/https://worthitso...
  - lifeisstillgood 5y ago
    is that a joke? I mean a bunch of stock photos of white hipster people with an address in Lahore? No - that does seem to be their site. I mean that is disturbing on all sorts of levels. From "that's just poor web dev copy paste", to "those americans won't hire anyone who looks like us" to ... hell I don't know. that just bothers me
    - dmurray 5y ago
      A real American firm would know to be more diverse!
- duskwuff 5y ago
  The entire "Our Team" page is unchanged from the web site template they used: https://pitch.qodeinteractive.com/team-grid/ https://pitch.qodeinteractive.com/team-grid/
  - orangepurple 5y ago
    Is the theme pirated? That would be the icing on the cake
- rmbyrro 5y ago
  Because there are lazy companies like Hacker Rank on the market to hire them.
  - xenator 5y ago
    Stop pulling responsibility from Hacker Rank. They hired this firm because they do business like this.
cstejerean 5y ago
I think that entire page is left over from the Pitch Wordpress template that they used for the website, it even links to the Pitch live preview site.
Nextgrid 5y ago
I didn't want to mention it in my other comment but the mere mention of "Pvt Limited" in the DMCA takedown led me to believe the company is a disgusting boiler room right next to the tech support scammers we all know (if not literally the same scammers moonlighting as DMCA enforcers). It does seem I was right and stereotypes (unfortunately for the legitimate companies from these regions) still work.
- captn3m0 5y ago
  "Pvt Limited" just denotes a company registered in India, Bangladesh, or Nepal and this isn't a good heuristic considering the huge number of companies.
  - Nextgrid 5y ago
    Yep, I am aware and that was my point. I’m sure that the vast majority of these companies serving their local area are legitimate. But when it comes to exporting abroad and IT specifically I’ve only ever had bad experiences to the point where it is an automatic red flag and so far that heuristic has served me well.
Sephr 5y ago
Wow, how did HackerRank end up hiring them? Incompetence all around.
- orangepurple 5y ago
  The DMCA's work, don't they? It's not incompetence, just unethical, evil, and potentially illegal, but they know you'll go bankrupt litigating them.
hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
It does not change the fact that the full responsibility is on Hacker Rank.

p5a0u9l 5y ago

Yup, and a couple of the stock photos of "Our team" are duplicates. Crazy. How does an outfit like this get hired?

b20000 5y ago
well, how did HR get through YC?
- mkl 5y ago
  They're talking about the company HackerRank hired to do DMCA takedowns, Worthit Solutions.
  - b20000 5y ago
    i know
- orangepurple 5y ago
  You don't become a billionaire by writing too many checks. Hence why they outsourced their goon squad to Pakistan.
  - b20000 5y ago
    that is not what i asked. why did YC fund hackerrank? sounds like a shitty idea and bad for our industry.
    - behringer 5y ago
      That's what vc companies do...
    - sobkas 5y ago
      > that is not what i asked. why did YC fund hackerrank? sounds like a shitty idea and bad for our industry. Idea of assigning number to a person and then judging that person based on that number? How it could happen in real world... Also if people are willing to pay for it (even if they don't know about it yet)in capitalism it is a good argument to pump money into it. Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31052764 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31052764
perihelions 5y ago
Here's an archive.org snapshot of the evidence, for future archivists: https://web.archive.org/web/20220420062828/https://worthitsolutions.co/our-team/ https://web.archive.org/web/20220420062828/https://worthitso...
- lifeisstillgood 5y ago
  is that a joke? I mean a bunch of stock photos of white hipster people with an address in Lahore? No - that does seem to be their site. I mean that is disturbing on all sorts of levels. From "that's just poor web dev copy paste", to "those americans won't hire anyone who looks like us" to ... hell I don't know. that just bothers me
  - dmurray 5y ago
    A real American firm would know to be more diverse!
duskwuff 5y ago
The entire "Our Team" page is unchanged from the web site template they used: https://pitch.qodeinteractive.com/team-grid/ https://pitch.qodeinteractive.com/team-grid/
- orangepurple 5y ago
  Is the theme pirated? That would be the icing on the cake
rmbyrro 5y ago
Because there are lazy companies like Hacker Rank on the market to hire them.
- xenator 5y ago
  Stop pulling responsibility from Hacker Rank. They hired this firm because they do business like this.

cstejerean 5y ago

I think that entire page is left over from the Pitch Wordpress template that they used for the website, it even links to the Pitch live preview site.

Nextgrid 5y ago

I didn't want to mention it in my other comment but the mere mention of "Pvt Limited" in the DMCA takedown led me to believe the company is a disgusting boiler room right next to the tech support scammers we all know (if not literally the same scammers moonlighting as DMCA enforcers). It does seem I was right and stereotypes (unfortunately for the legitimate companies from these regions) still work.

captn3m0 5y ago
"Pvt Limited" just denotes a company registered in India, Bangladesh, or Nepal and this isn't a good heuristic considering the huge number of companies.
- Nextgrid 5y ago
  Yep, I am aware and that was my point. I’m sure that the vast majority of these companies serving their local area are legitimate. But when it comes to exporting abroad and IT specifically I’ve only ever had bad experiences to the point where it is an automatic red flag and so far that heuristic has served me well.

Sephr 5y ago

Wow, how did HackerRank end up hiring them? Incompetence all around.

orangepurple 5y ago
The DMCA's work, don't they? It's not incompetence, just unethical, evil, and potentially illegal, but they know you'll go bankrupt litigating them.

hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago

It does not change the fact that the full responsibility is on Hacker Rank.