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YC founder asks desperate job seekers to tattoo themselves for an interview
['William Hicks']
The San Francisco Standard
30, 2026 at 1:41pmToday in novel sentences: A San Francisco AI startup CEO is apologizing for asking people to permanently tattoo themselves in exchange for a job interview.
applicants an instant job interview, but only if they got its logo or a related design permanently tattooed on their bodies.
“That’s why we brought an actual tattoo artist to our party and offered an instant interview to anyone who got a LemonLime tattoo.
“Yes, almost everyone else got a LemonLime logo tattoo,” Dimple Amitha Garuadapuri (opens in new tab) posted on X (opens in new tab) .
She said she got a tattoo at the event that was not the LemonLime logo but didn’t respond when asked what it depicted.