‘You Sound Like a Nightmare to Work With’: Pakistani-American CEO’s Draws Flak For Recruitment Method

The majority of us have gone through the recruitment process or at least know how it is supposed to work. The hiring of an accurate applicant follows a step-by-step procedure. Human resource professionals do a thorough analysis to establish what duties are necessary and what qualities a suitable applicant should possess. Subsequently, the salary is decided, the job postings are made, and last, the candidates are sorted via a series of interviews to gain further insight into their personalities, skills and references. However, this Gen Z CEO only put a simple message on X, “hiring someone tonight.”

Arib Khan, the San Francisco-based founder, posted a job opening right after firing his designer. Khan is the Pakistani-American creator of Musicfy, a startup that develops artificial intelligence tools for musicians. Prior to this, he was the CEO and creator of a company that sold men’s jewellery.

Khan declared that he needed someone who is interested in designing things “for millions” for his company.

“DM me your portfolio today. hiring someone tonight”, read the post.

However, Khan’s post drew criticism from many.

In response, Khan stated in a later tweet that being nice isn’t his main goal.

“If your designs are shit I will say they are shit.”

He said that if you can’t take what he says, “Then it doesn’t work for us.”

Notably, he later made further additions in the tweet saying, “found someone.”

The post has more than 4 lakh views on the social media platform.

A user commented, “This tweet tells me everything I need to know about you.”

Another user took a satirical approach, commenting, “The board next week on : “just fired our CEO — need someone that wants to properly lead a team that builds products for millions”.”

A third user proceeded to highlight every one of the “red flags” in the post.

First on the user’s list is “bragging” in public about terminating a designer. Next is to work for “millions” without any context, according to the user. “Millions of users or millions of dollars? (We know which one),” remarked the user.

Thirdly, he brought up Khan’s bad experience with the previous designer and his willingness to employ someone the same day for an “apparently ultra-important project.”

“Delusions of grandeur and a heavy dose of arrogance,” the user stated.

“Just fired a guy, join us and you could be fired next!”, read another comment.

Yet another user said, “You sound like a nightmare to work with. Ain’t it, chief.”

The users were not willing to tolerate the toxic work environment and stood by the sacked employee.