NEW DELHI: Founder of Grump start-up Senain Sawant shared the horrors of hiring she recently faced after being called a “bi**h” by an applicant during an interview.
Posting the screenshots of the chat, Sawant said, “The younger generation is in clear need of strong guidance, and as a young entrepreneur myself, I am appalled by the audacity of this candidate to think it is okay to call the company founder, or anyone in a hiring position for that matter, a Bi***”
Sawant had scheduled a video interview with the applicant which, due to some technical reasons at the latter’s fault, couldn’t work out.
“They joined the call with the camera off, said they don’t own a computer and something about ios update not allowing video calls. I responded with, ‘how do you usually work?’, to which they replied ‘My previous company gave us a laptop, but if one is needed, I can arrange,” she wrote in a Linkedin post.
Observing that their “tone was off from the start”, Sawant said, “I asked them to join at a time when their video can be turned on, since this an interview and I need to see who I’m speaking with. They said “Fine” and cut the call. Their tone was off from the start, they weren’t audible to begin with and it seemed like they were out in public from the amount of noise in the background.”
Posting the screenshots of the chat, Sawant said, “The younger generation is in clear need of strong guidance, and as a young entrepreneur myself, I am appalled by the audacity of this candidate to think it is okay to call the company founder, or anyone in a hiring position for that matter, a Bi***”
Sawant had scheduled a video interview with the applicant which, due to some technical reasons at the latter’s fault, couldn’t work out.
“They joined the call with the camera off, said they don’t own a computer and something about ios update not allowing video calls. I responded with, ‘how do you usually work?’, to which they replied ‘My previous company gave us a laptop, but if one is needed, I can arrange,” she wrote in a Linkedin post.
Observing that their “tone was off from the start”, Sawant said, “I asked them to join at a time when their video can be turned on, since this an interview and I need to see who I’m speaking with. They said “Fine” and cut the call. Their tone was off from the start, they weren’t audible to begin with and it seemed like they were out in public from the amount of noise in the background.”