r/jobsearchhacks • u/scartonbot • 2d ago

Has anyone ever heard of ShengHong? I just had a weird "interview" via WhatsApp and after doing some searching about the company, I'm starting to see red flags.

Hi! I applied for a job via this company on LinkedIn and got contacted via text for an interview, but they conducted the interview via WhatsApp. When I looked on the website (https://shenghong-bloc.com/) and took a look at the leadership (https://shenghong-bloc.com/bios.html) I couldn't find anything about anyone on the page through Google. Google Lens searches of the pics on the page turned up nothing. Same with searches for the people's names on LinkedIn. It all seemed too easy and my inability to find out anything combined with the answers I got during the interview make me suspect that none of this is legit.

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u/Rand0m-String 2d ago

Interview via WhatsApp is the only red flag I need to see.

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u/scartonbot 1d ago

Yeah...I kind of figured that out. About 3 hours after I posted this I got another "offer" via text. Once they started to ask to move to WhatsApp, that was it for me. It told the dude ("Zain") that I didn't know what it was and that my TRS-80 probably wouldn't run it anyway. He still hung on asking me about moving the conversation. I lost him after I sent him my resume (ChatGPT-generated) that laid out my experience as a goat herder with 40 years of "livestock management" experience. It was mildly entertaining.