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>What stung me even further, and made me believe that the interview was only a sham reason to only know about my app, was the fact that the product that I used

>What stung me even further, and made me believe that the interview was only a sham reason to only know about my app, was the fact that the product that I used as an illustration on the chrome extension store got banned. Not only that, but multiple products from the same seller and other sellers in that product category engaging in review deception schemes also got banned or more in their lingo "Discontinued". This seems like potential evidence that they became aware of your app and made some changes based on the easy to identify information, but I don't think this is evidence as to why they decided to interview you. Maybe they would have interviewed you if your resume didn't include that app on it.

yabatopia 11y ago
Another possibility is that users of the extension reported the fake reviews, even used the examples of the extension page, forcing Amazon to ban the sellers.
FatalLogic 11y ago
>potential evidence... I know you probably didn't mean evidence in a legal sense, but it is circumstantial evidence, and this is a reason why a competent, healthy company would not call in a developer for a fake interview with the intention of stealing his ideas. The costs of potential legal liability and reputational risks would far outweigh the small financial gain. Especially as they could just analyze the app, never contact the developer, and not leave such a big evidence trail Maybe Amazon is not a competent, healthy company, or maybe a rogue executive inside the company independently arranged this evil scheme, but that seems so unlikely when they could just offer a few 100K, or employment, to get access to his ideas legally. Anyway, my advice to the developer is: it's possible you were evilly taken advantage of, but it's improbable. What is probable is that if you go down this road of paranoid fear of having your ideas stolen, it's a very unhealthy path to follow, even if you are right a few times. Try to think the best of people, and usually they will return that favor.

yabatopia 11y ago

Another possibility is that users of the extension reported the fake reviews, even used the examples of the extension page, forcing Amazon to ban the sellers.

FatalLogic 11y ago

>potential evidence... I know you probably didn't mean evidence in a legal sense, but it is circumstantial evidence, and this is a reason why a competent, healthy company would not call in a developer for a fake interview with the intention of stealing his ideas. The costs of potential legal liability and reputational risks would far outweigh the small financial gain. Especially as they could just analyze the app, never contact the developer, and not leave such a big evidence trail Maybe Amazon is not a competent, healthy company, or maybe a rogue executive inside the company independently arranged this evil scheme, but that seems so unlikely when they could just offer a few 100K, or employment, to get access to his ideas legally. Anyway, my advice to the developer is: it's possible you were evilly taken advantage of, but it's improbable. What is probable is that if you go down this road of paranoid fear of having your ideas stolen, it's a very unhealthy path to follow, even if you are right a few times. Try to think the best of people, and usually they will return that favor.