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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Dec-2025 09:49:35 JST Adrianna Tan

   I once went to an onsite interview at Mozilla and nobody knew they were hiring for that role or that the role existed or who the hiring manager was and I guess the recruiter had been fired

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Dec-2025 09:56:41 JST Adrianna Tan

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     And this was like, through a warm lead. Can’t imagine what the experience must have been like for a person just applying normally

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Dec-2025 09:58:24 JST Adrianna Tan

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     Then when they found someone to talk to me that person was like, don’t work here

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     Raven667 (raven667@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Dec-2025 12:38:12 JST Raven667

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     @skinnylatte I had that happen once and it was the weirdest thing. I interviewed at a tech startup in '08 which I didn't know much about, but turns out they scraped facebook and did profiling/data analytics for hire, which is kind of skeevy, but that's not the weird part; after I interviewed there someone sent me an email to my personal account from a yahoo.com address using the same name as the company which read

     > You may want to think twice before joining [redacted]. The financial situation of the company and outlook isn't as optimistic as it appears.

     I was offered but declined and ended up finding a much better job with a local University a few years later. I just checked and the company seems to have existed until at least 2019 so their warning may not have been factually accurate but it's a super weird red flag if someone at the company had access to my application info and used it to privately warn me off, whatever was going on, I don't want to be a part of. yikes.