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

by p5a0u9l 4y ago

b20000 4y ago
well, how did HR get through YC?
- mkl 4y ago
  They're talking about the company HackerRank hired to do DMCA takedowns, Worthit Solutions.
  - b20000 4y ago
    i know
- orangepurple 4y ago
  You don't become a billionaire by writing too many checks. Hence why they outsourced their goon squad to Pakistan.
  - b20000 4y ago
    that is not what i asked. why did YC fund hackerrank? sounds like a shitty idea and bad for our industry.
    - behringer 4y ago
      That's what vc companies do...
    - sobkas 4y 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 4y 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 4y 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 4y ago
    A real American firm would know to be more diverse!
duskwuff 4y 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 4y ago
  Is the theme pirated? That would be the icing on the cake
rmbyrro 4y ago
Because there are lazy companies like Hacker Rank on the market to hire them.
- xenator 4y ago
  Stop pulling responsibility from Hacker Rank. They hired this firm because they do business like this.

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

b20000 4y ago

well, how did HR get through YC?

mkl 4y ago
They're talking about the company HackerRank hired to do DMCA takedowns, Worthit Solutions.
- b20000 4y ago
  i know
orangepurple 4y ago
You don't become a billionaire by writing too many checks. Hence why they outsourced their goon squad to Pakistan.
- b20000 4y ago
  that is not what i asked. why did YC fund hackerrank? sounds like a shitty idea and bad for our industry.
  - behringer 4y ago
    That's what vc companies do...
  - sobkas 4y 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 4y 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 4y 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 4y ago
  A real American firm would know to be more diverse!

duskwuff 4y 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 4y ago
Is the theme pirated? That would be the icing on the cake

rmbyrro 4y ago

Because there are lazy companies like Hacker Rank on the market to hire them.

xenator 4y ago
Stop pulling responsibility from Hacker Rank. They hired this firm because they do business like this.