An Indian startup founder is drawing attention online after revoking a job offer to a candidate who impressed the team with their skills and initiative.
The entrepreneur claimed that the role, offering ₹22 LPA, was rescinded after a background check revealed the candidate’s LinkedIn remarks that were “derogatory towards religious communities.”
Cancelled the offer letter based on derogatory comments made on some LinkedIn posts.
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He referred to a post on Reddit where the company claimed that candidates who applied for the junior developer role relied heavily on AI tools for coding without grasping the logic behind their work.
The founder continued that, impressed with the candidate’s skills and initiative, the company rolled out a letter of intent with a salary of ₹22 lakh per annum
One email shows the letter of intent sent out to the candidate. The other is the rejection letter that says, “As mentioned earlier, we carried out a routine background check before proceeding with the offer.
During this we came across some recent public posts on Linkedin that included comments from you which will deeply hurt religious sentiments of certain communities.”