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Cluely and HockeyStack are scam companies too. Cluely did the ChatGPT wrapper to cheat on interviews then sold the customer data to recruiters. The whole compa
by biggletiddies 7mo ago
Cluely and HockeyStack are scam companies too.
Cluely did the ChatGPT wrapper to cheat on interviews then sold the customer data to recruiters. The whole company promise is a scam, and useless since we have LLMs.
HockeyStack held contests for people to win cars etc and never delivered. They also lied about having revenues and a product when they had nothing built. Along with Greptile they were doing 7day weeks of unpaid labor from “trial periods”.
Scams all around.
- porridgeraisin 7mo agoWait what's the greptile story?
- buttsack 7mo agoIt says right there, 7-day work weeks (no days off). Also they were part of the cohort forcing workers to stay minimum until 9PM. Like every AI company, their "product" is a Next.js website, OPENAI_API_KEY, and a Stripe checkout page.
- porridgeraisin 7mo agoAh ok. What's with the "unpaid labour" part?
- buttsack 7mo agoIt's also in the original post. Greptile, HockeyStack, and others from that cohort of 20-year old founders out of YC were having software engineer candidates come in day-in and day-out, staying until 9PM under the threat of being rejected if they left earlier. They were not paid at all, they were working long-term on a "trial period". And yes it's very illegal. I was there and saw it first-hand. The guys they had on trial periods - though I'm sure they were very intelligent - were not really firing on all cylinders if you know what I mean.
- porridgeraisin 7mo agoYikes
- taintlord 7mo ago[dead]
- calderwoodra 7mo agoGreptile is an awesome product, not sure where the scam is there
- taintlord 7mo ago[dead]