India, Sept. 5 -- A Bengaluru startup founder was left surprised after an open-to-work developer reached out with an unusually harsh critique of his company's website. Calling the user experience "very repelling and borderline disgusting," the candidate offered her services to fix the site. The founder later shared the exchange online, sarcastically questioning the outreach templates currently being taught to job seekers.

The job seeker reached out to the founder over LinkedIn DM. She wrote, "As a 22F I just explored your website and products and tbh I cringed hard. To be brutally honest, the website was very repelling and borderline disgusting. It felt like you were selling pictures of shirtless men and other random men applying somethi...