Ask HN: What is the least ethical thing you’ve done for your startup?
Not a story about my own ethics, but those of a start-up I worked for.<p>I quit a good job once to join a start-up and also foolishly didn&#x27;t take time off in between the two jobs.<p>So Monday morning, bright-eyed, I flew to the company&#x27;s main office for some meet &amp; greets, getting my company laptop, etc.<p>Literally the first thing that happened to me upon arriving at the office was that I was marshaled into a conference room where the CEO, director of HR and director of Sales were all sitting. Lunch was on the table.<p>They proceeded to ask me what my religious views were, and mentioned how the three of them, along with various other staff all went to the same local house of worship, and that they all had kids of the same age who participating in a particular religious activity together.<p>I tried to rationalize it as just chatter, like someone talking about where their kids go to college or something. Not my cup of tea, but hey, maybe it&#x27;s just &#x27;getting to know you&#x27; sort of chatter.<p>Then the director of HR started listing off people I would meet later that day, what their religions were, times he had &quot;had a good debate&quot; with them about their chosen religion, while the other two just remained silent.<p>I quit that job about 3 months later. If I hadn&#x27;t been a remote employee and would have been forced to work in close proximity to those people, I probably would have quit on the spot, regardless of not having a job lined up.<p>I remember in the meeting when it was happening, I was panicking inside and my mind was racing. I had done many interviews with them, asked every question under the sun, and had no idea this was going on. And I had just given up a reasonably good job because I was an expert on some of the software tools this particular start-up made and felt I could do a lot of good work there.<p>Really made my approach to job hunting change after that.