Four folks — two Co-Founders, a Head of Growth, and a Customer Success Manager — from an early-stage company claiming to build an “AI platform to hire and onboard your global team” recently reached out to me via a rather silly, automated marketing campaign on LinkedIn.
The LinkedIn Messages & Screenshots
It reminded me just how different my own journey into PromptQL (previously, Hasura) has been.
If I look back at what truly got me excited about joining the PromptQL team and writing software in the first place, it was how they actually recruited me. Unlike most companies that hired from our campus by running a standard 2-hour DSA round, the PromptQL team gave me an open-ended problem statement — something I could ponder over the weekend and implement in the language and framework of my choice.
I don't think the team cared whether I could code under pressure or solve textbook algorithms. Their process naturally filtered in folks who wanted to build. While most of my batch mates skipped it to prepare for other DSA-heavy interviews the following week, I got completely absorbed in the problem. It was so open-ended and flexible, it felt more like crafting a piece of art than solving a coding puzzle.
So when a platform calls itself “AI-powered hiring” but still asks for my LinkedIn (which is where they found me) and my GitHub (which contains over three years of public Hasura work) ... I'm not exactly impressed. If your AI can't surface my contributions, my docs, or even a PR trail — maybe it's not ready to hire engineers just yet. Moreover, if your business model views India as a source of cheap labour — I'm sorry to say that you're deeply mistaken, my friend.
My original Hasura assignment is now public on GitHub: krushanbauva/flipbook_compiler
Let's build better teams — not just better funnels. And by the way go checkout PromptQL if you haven't already!