The message arrived at 1:30 in the afternoon proposing a final interview at two. The candidate asked if it could move. The founder declined — the company was scaling, he said, and wanted someone who put the role first, family aside — and closed the conversation. Sorry bro.
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Thirty Minutes' Notice, Then Sorry Bro
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