Millennials criticise startups CEO who claimed he didn’t want to hire employees who were only concerned with money or wanted to ‘clock in and out’

Grayson Kay

• Careem CEO Mudassir Sheikha stated he didn’t want to hire people who were only concerned with money or working hours.
• The CEO’s LinkedIn article was criticised by some Blind employees as “tone-deaf” and “cringe.”
• According to a Careem spokesman, the company offers competitive remuneration.

After a startup CEO produced a list of qualities he didn’t want in new hiring, including personnel who prioritised income and those who wanted to ‘clock in and clock out’ of work, tech workers rushed to the employee forum Blind to criticise him.

Careem CEO Mudassir Sheikha wrote on LinkedIn, “While I can give you hundreds of reasons to join Careem, like the opportunities you’ll have to learn and grow, create impact, or work in a hybrid setting, let me instead share with you the reasons not to join Careem.” He added that employees shouldn’t work for the company if “your top priority is cash compensation.”

He wrote in the post, “While you’ll receive competitive income at Careem, there are many easier locations to earn a paycheck. “At Careem, our coworkers place the greatest emphasis on making an impact and achieving our purpose.”

Sheikha went on to say that working with Careem wouldn’t be a “comfortable 9 to 5” job and that anybody expecting for “structure and certainty” or a “fancy corner office” should steer clear of the business altogether.

“Colleagues at Careem don’t clock in and clock out, they see things through the finish line like owners,” he said in a post that drew over 220 comments on LinkedIn, many of which seemed to disagree with the CEO’s assertion.

The message was described as “tone-deaf” and “cringe” by an anonymous Roblox employee on Blind, a platform that confirms an employee’s place of employment by requesting a workplace email address. The discussion had close to 650 responses. The employment of the US referenced in this story was not independently verified by Insider.

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Apparently, a company CEO doesn’t want to employ people who just want to “clock in and out.”
Apparently, a company CEO doesn’t want to employ people who just want to “clock in and out.”Careem CEO Getty Mudassir Sheikha stated he didn’t want to hire anyone who were only concerned with money or working hours.

The CEO’s LinkedIn article was criticised by some Blind employees as “tone-deaf” and “cringe.”

According to a Careem spokesman, the company offers competitive remuneration.

After a startup CEO produced a list of qualities he didn’t want in new hiring, including personnel who prioritised income and those who wanted to ‘clock in and clock out’ of work, tech workers rushed to the employee forum Blind to criticise him.

Careem CEO Mudassir Sheikha wrote on LinkedIn, “While I can give you hundreds of reasons to join Careem, like the opportunities you’ll have to learn and grow, create impact, or work in a hybrid setting, let me instead share with you the reasons not to join Careem.” He added that employees shouldn’t work for the company if “your top priority is cash compensation.”

He wrote in the post, “While you’ll receive competitive income at Careem, there are many easier locations to earn a paycheck. “At Careem, our coworkers place the greatest emphasis on making an impact and achieving our purpose.”

Sheikha went on to say that working with Careem wouldn’t be a “comfortable 9 to 5” job and that anybody expecting for “structure and certainty” or a “fancy corner office” should steer clear of the business altogether.

“Colleagues at Careem don’t clock in and clock out, they see things through the finish line like owners,” he said in a post that drew over 220 comments on LinkedIn, many of which seemed to disagree with the CEO’s assertion.

The message was described as “tone-deaf” and “cringe” by an anonymous Roblox employee on Blind, a platform that confirms an employee’s place of employment by requesting a workplace email address. The discussion had close to 650 responses. Insider did not independently confirm the users’ job in this report.

The Roblox employee stated, “In other words, we’ll pay you peanuts, put you in a small space with few amenities, give you no training, work you until you burn out and quit so the execs and owners can get a fat payout on the back of your labour.” Why would you join a place like this, unless you were in a dire situation?

“Ok, let me get this straight- you want the world’s‘most talented’ and ‘purpose driven’ employees, but you don’t think compensation should be a priority for them,” one employee who listed Microsoft in her LinkedIn profile wrote in a response that received 90 likes. You believe that the best people in the world should be motivated by your “mission” to the point where they will work for little pay, despite the fact that this is a for-profit business and the “mission” is to increase profits.

Some of the comments on Blind and LinkedIn were more encouraging than others, and a Careem employee on Blind stated that they are not obliged to work “crazy hours” and that compensation at the company is “ok.” Many commenters on Blind and LinkedIn objected to the post.

On LinkedIn, executive coach Binod Shankar described the position as “fab and rare.”