He Politely Declined the Interview. The Founder Replied With a Middle-Finger Emoji.

A candidate on r/IndianWorkplace backed out of an internship interview after noticing a series of red flags: no formal emails, no calendar invites, and the discovery that multiple businesses operated from the same small office under the same family name. When he politely messaged the founder on WhatsApp to decline, the founder initially reacted with a thumbs-up. By the next morning, the reaction had been changed to a middle-finger emoji. The candidate's summary: "That emoji told me more about the company culture than the interview ever could."