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Zenefits CEO publicly rescinds offer on Quora

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Possibly related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9496813

nothing there (anymore)?

I just caught it before it was apparently taken down - the post looks anonymous now too.

Honestly, this just sounds like a kid who doesn't know very much about anything really.

Working for a company to fill your resume is the wrong goal IMO, you should learn as much as possible, work on and build cool stuff, and let the chips fall where they may. You don't really want to work for a company that cares about your pedigree more than your enthusiasm, experience, and knowledge.

Right, except I can't imagine that it wouldn't help to work in a resume-padding company to get 'access' to a much wider range of companies. I'm in the USA on an H1B for one of the big companies, and honestly, for people outside the US, US employment choices are quite limited. Many companies won't do an H1B sponsorship, or won't even respond to an application. If I did apply for jobs now, I can't imagine the resume-padding wouldn't help as a form of pre-selection.

FWIW The CEO deleted his own answer, it wasn't taken down

From the questioner on Quora:

    Uber has a really good reputation.

I would never hire anyone who believes this.

Can you elaborate why (from a software engineering perspective)? I don't know too much about it but I did hear of people from places like FB/Google moving to Uber.

    from a software engineering perspective

It's not a software engineering perspective. It's an "I don't want to work for a company started by such an asshole" perspective.

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