# No resume. One DM. Hired by Sunday.

**[WIN]** — by Via @tanaykothari on X

A 20-year-old with no experience and no polished resume sent a direct message to the CEO of WisprFlow.ai, a California-based tech startup, saying he loved the product and wanted to work there. The CEO replied: "Come by in two hours."

On a Saturday afternoon, they talked for 45 minutes. The candidate was given a project that would normally take a day and a half. When asked if he wanted to start Monday, he said, "I'll start now." He pulled an all-nighter, delivered thousands of lines of code as a fully functioning feature by Sunday morning, and became one of the company's highest-performing engineers.

The CEO later posted on X: "The best hires aren't the ones with the perfect resume. They're the ones who do more than what's asked." A hiring process that took two hours. No take-home. No seven rounds. Just a conversation, a project, and a decision.

*Source: [X/Twitter · @tanaykothari · WisprFlow.ai](https://www.indiatoday.in/trending-news/story/indian-founder-hires-20-year-old-fresher-who-dmed-him-on-x-shares-why-it-worked-2893675-2026-04-09)*
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