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Tell HN: I just received the most insane interview request I have ever received

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>"Bullish is a trading platform that leverages innovations of decentralized finance (DeFi) within a regulated framework, giving institutional and retail traders access to safe, deep liquidity, and low-cost transactions. Our high-performance matching engine gives you access to highly liquid, low-cost trades, so you can work at both speed and scale. Bullish exchange is operated by Bullish (GI) Limited and is fully regulated in Gibraltar."

A company called "Bullish," running a crypto exchange while FTX and friends collapse, in a recession, regulated in freaking Gibraltar, trying to hire for a Site Reliability Engineer. This is the most insane interview request I have received in my career so far.

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This is just mocking the company. Which seems fair but it has nothing to do with interviewing or hiring. Have the asked for anything unreasonable? Are they supposed to not hire right now?

This is almost certainly a fraud company that will likely cease to exist in 3 months, so no, they are not.

My point is that the interview request isn't special like your title suggests. You could say "they're a fraud BS company" in response to any single thing this company does (and you might be right, that's besides the point).

The company description was part of the the interview request.

Circa 2001 I was working with an entrepreneur to develop a voice chat service aimed at the Brazilian market although we were based in the US. The company was registered in a Caribbean island known to be a "jurisdiction of convenience" and I would occasionally get phone calls from vendors who asked "is this a scam?" and I'd tell them "No, there are many legitimate corporations large and small that are registered in 'offshore' jurisdictions."

Many big US corporations (e.g. Google) are registered in the US state of Delaware, for instance, which is one of the least transparent jurisdictions in the world.

This doesn't mean they are legit, but I wouldn't necessarily hold it against a company because they are registered in Gibraltar. On the other hand if you decided you wanted to have nothing to do w/ a crypto exchange I wouldn't blame you.

If you are going to try to get your company regulated legitimately you probably want to do it somewhere people have at least actually heard of in most of the world, but that is the least fishy thing about it out of everything I find concerning here.

That's like saying that if you don't want to be seen as some digital criminal, you shouldn't be on some dodgy orange-looking site most people never heard of, where news for hackers is posted and discussed.

Most large companies have entities all over the world in places you probably never heard of, and those places are well known within the accountancy world.

You are really going to spend time and effort defending what is obviously a crypto scam over its location? If people outside of HN saw your comment due to becoming popular/accepted I am not sure they would legitimately want to spend any time here.

Perhaps their slogan could be, "Bullish-it!"

Seems like a legit company with 275 employees.

FTX had $1.8B in funding at least with 40 different investors according to Crunchbase and that wasn't enough to make them legit in the end.

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