I actually know some of the family members of one of the guys here - they are good people and he's got a brother that is also a known entity in the tech world - here's to hoping they can understand why this was a poor approach and learn from it.

We've all been young and made mistakes - I know that does not make all of this OK but I also know I wouldn't want to have to live in infamy for everything I did when I was in college either

There's mistakes and then there's premeditated immoral scamming. They'll learn - how to be more clever next time.

The CTOs Github[0] has a single public project which is a fork of someone doing their test.

I was trying to find this world leading React developer and assumed it was the CTO.

From their job ad[1]

> As such, you will also be working alongside one of the leading React developers in the world who will assist you every step of the way.

0: https://github.com/ebyargeon

1: https://angel.co/bee-technologies-inc/jobs/275465-junior-fro...

Is this what their platform is based on? Are they just using some other guys code? This thing looks more fishy with the more data people have posted.

I think that's someone doing the interview test mentioned in the reddit post

The CTO's LinkedIn says he's still in undergrad. It seems like this is effectively a vanity startup and one of the founders has rich family members. Not rich enough, apparently.

If I was Amazon LLC I'd sue for defamation.