Job seekers, be warned: the toxic manager you deliberately left off your reference list might already be on the phone with your future boss. The CEO of the $4.8 billion software company, Netskope, has revealed he doesn’t just call the names candidates hand over—he also tracks down the ones they left off, to find out what they’re really like.
“We do a heck of a lot of background checks and references, and a lot of those references are literally just on cultural fit,” Netskope chief Sanjay Beri exclusively told Fortune. “So we will try to find people they know, maybe the references they didn’t give.”
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