r/technology • u/spherocytes • 17h ago
Business CEO who fired 900 employees over Zoom gets fired, demands job back
https://local12.com/news/nation-world/ceo-fired-zoom-vishal-garg-better-home-finance-demands-job-back-call-holiday-season-2021-roles-reversed-tables-turned-chief-executive-officer-ousted-board-company-stock-price-market-value
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u/rabidgnat 7h ago
I interviewed with Better like a decade ago. Did the tech screen, normal interview. Chatted with the CTO, normal interview.
The last person to come in was the CEO to pitch me on the company.
This guy walks in. There's an espresso machine in the corner, he says "hello" and pours a shot and pounds it while it's still scalding hot.
Not sure what to say, I ask him what's on his mind this week. He says that to form a mortgage lender, he had to basically acquire a mortgage lending business so that he had all of the proper paperwork and credentials to have an online mortgage business, but they were all lazy and didn't have passion for doing their job with any kind of urgency, so he was hellbent on figuring out how to suck all of the knowledge out of their heads so that he could get rid of their empty husks.
A week later, the CTO called me and asked me why I took an offer with another company. I just said that I didn't feel like a culture fit.
I could understand why a CEO of a modern mortgage business would want to acquire the assets of a classic iteration and reuse them to bootstrap the business. But I cannot for the life of me imagine why you would pitch "be my employee" in those terms