{"id":954148,"date":"2025-08-11T10:45:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T05:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=954148"},"modified":"2025-08-11T10:45:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T05:15:40","slug":"ai-startup-founder-blasts-ex-managers-for-biased-reference-checks-many-treat-exits-like-betrayal-netizens-react","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/11\/ai-startup-founder-blasts-ex-managers-for-biased-reference-checks-many-treat-exits-like-betrayal-netizens-react\/","title":{"rendered":"AI startup founder blasts ex-managers for biased reference checks: \u2018Many treat exits like betrayal&#8217;; netizens react"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A founder from AI startup ecosystem has sparked a heated conversation after slamming the reference check culture in Indian companies, especially within the SaaS sector. He said many treat the departure as \u201cbetrayal\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The post has stirred discussion on Linkedin about ego, power dynamics, and fairness in corporate culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A founder from AI startup ecosystem has sparked a heated conversation after slamming the reference check culture in Indian companies, especially within the SaaS sector. He said many treat the departure as \u201cbetrayal\u201d. The post has stirred discussion on Linkedin about ego, power dynamics, and fairness in corporate culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}