India, April 24 -- Frustrated job seekers often take to social media, especially Reddit, to share their bizarre stories while dealing with recruiters. One such story was shared by a man who claimed that a Hong Kong startup founder and CEO "tricked" him into doing six hours of unpaid work disguised as an interview for a job.

Sharing his terrible experience on r/recruitinghell, a subreddit dedicated to bad recuritment stories, the man said that he applied for a software engineering role and the founder of the startup was the one conducting the interview for the position.

"He noticed I had experience with a specific design software (not relevant to the job) and asked for another meeting to assess my skills in it," he said.

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