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So I heard through the grapevine about a company in Melbourne Aus making a 'virtual personal assistant'. CEO is an ex fortune 500 bigshot that jetsets across the world with their daughter (also senior management at the company) burning cash like there's no tomorrow, while giving the illusion that business deals are 'just about to come through'.

The smart ones have been leaving consistently through the company's history, and recently they had a layoff of around half their staff.

From the sounds of it, almost sounds like a shell company - half baked product that no-one uses, and they've managed to convince investors out of millions in cash.

To me seems just like the dotcom crash all over again - crazy that investors aren't on top of this shit, where's the due diligence / sense checking at?


I think I applied to them about 6 months ago. I was rejected for "not doing TDD" because I checked in my tests and code at the same time.


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