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How One Bad Reference Check Cost a Company 500k
Lucas and Luna dissect a real case where a mid-stage startup ignored red flags from a candidate's former manager and ended up hiring a polished executive who misrepresented revenue numbers. The hire lasted seven months, the damage was roughly half a million dollars. They walk through exactly what the reference call missed — the specific question nobody asked — and how a single follow-up with a peer reference would have caught the exaggeration. Lucas explains the difference between a 'compliance reference' and a 'diagnostic reference', and why most companies treat…
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