India, Feb. 9 -- Techies on social media are sharing their biggest regrets after turning down job offers from startups in the past that have now made it big in the tech world. Among them, one Indian engineer recalled his "worst financial decision ever" by turning down a chance to be a founding engineer for Aravind Srinivas' Perplexity AI back in 2022.

The engineer was replying to another techie's post about a similar offer he declined. He said he had offers from Srinivas and another US based company which he chose over the Indian-origin CEO's firm. Unfortunately, that company was Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto firm FTX and Alameda Research -- which collapsed and are now worth nothing.

"I've got you beat for worst financial decision. (I said...