I had the same thought. People have rightly pointed out the age bias, but there's also an implicit bias toward embellishment. People who are comfortable doing that can post lots of positive and mostly unverifiable things there.
Then again, we don't know how they evaluate this. Maybe overly positive unverifiable statements are actually negatives for them.
That seems like a really terrible way to start off with a new company. But then I feel like that way about most of the scuzzy things some percentage of people have no qualms about doing if they can get off with them (e.g. working two full-time jobs at the same time).
> Are you hiring me or 16-year-old me? Well then.
i wonder what is preventing you from just lying. like, how are they going to confirm or deny what you're saying ?
Frankly it seems like a way to have something they can use to reject you with something that's hard to debate against.