Lokesh Motwani

Hi,

To summarise

So lately we have found out that startups - specially YC startups, ask people to come to office in the "office days" where they ask the candidates to solve JIRA tickets and also give them a sandbox environment

I feel they are just trying to guage how people will perform and work when they come and join them

As a hiring manager, I couldn't trust resumes. My team wasted so much time on screening calls, only to find the candidates weren't a match. There was no real proof-of-work, and with AI now writing resumes, the noise is just getting worse.

As a candidate, it was just as frustrating. My past work didn't help me get better roles; it felt like I was starting over every single time because my performance signals were buried in old company HR tools that no one could see.