So….all this
turned out to be a ruse to flush out candidates who cared too much about the money, and isolate only those whose motivation was the passion for the work and awareness of the learning opportunity. Many peopled hated
this idea from
Deepinder Goyal, CEO of restaurant recommendations service, Zomato whose initially advertised a job as Chief of Staff as one in which the
candidate was the pay for the privilege(!), but at some level I think it achieved the aim of generating a large number of candidates, as well as fair amount of market awareness for brand. Damage to EB? The price paid for an interesting experiment.