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Bad interviews happen. But one job candidate says a particularly awful experience eventually led to one of the pettiest acts of revenge they’ve ever carried out.

According to OP, a CEO kept them waiting for an hour, spent a brief interview asking irrelevant questions and probing about former coworkers, and hadn’t even bothered reading their résumé beforehand. OP walked away feeling disrespected—and later discovered through employee reviews that many others had apparently had similar experiences.

Years later, OP noticed the company had a sparsely maintained Wikipedia page that was already being questioned for failing to meet the site’s notability standards. Rather than improving it, OP nominated the page for deletion—and says nobody stepped in to save it.

Got a toxic interviewer’s company website deleted from Wikipedia

A few years back I had an interview with a CEO of a small company.

He kept me waiting an hour, was super rude, hadn’t read my resume before meeting me, asked me questions not at all pertinent to the role, tried to get personal info on former coworkers. All this in an interview which lasted about 10 minutes, after which I walked out.

I didn’t know about Glassdoor at the time, but when I discovered it, I found this company’s page and learned that he was universally hated by everyone who had met him.

Typical.

Interestingly, his company had a Wikipedia page, which he had clearly created, as it originally read like a marketing brochure.

Editors kept removing biased information from the page, and eventually it was whittled down to basically just a stub saying “This company exists”.

It had a Notability tag applied to the page, saying that this page really doesn’t meet Wikipedia’s criteria for inclusion and should be improved if someone wants it kept around.

Wow.

Well, I didn’t want it kept around. F*ck that guy and his company. So I applied the “Proposed Deletion” tag to it, which, if no one objects or edits the page or removes the tag, will lead to the page being deleted seven days later.

Surprise surprise, no one objected or edited the page, and seven days later, the page was deleted. I experienced a small frisson of delight seeing the page gone.

I repeat: F*ck that guy and his company.

Commenters were amused by the story, though many pointed out that OP didn’t actually delete the page themselves. Instead, they simply used Wikipedia’s existing deletion process, which still required other editors to review the nomination. Since no one challenged the request or provided evidence that the company met Wikipedia’s notability guidelines, the page was ultimately removed through the site’s normal procedures.

Many readers found that detail especially satisfying, arguing that if even the company’s own supporters couldn’t be bothered to defend the page, it probably didn’t belong on Wikipedia in the first place. Others joked that the CEO’s biggest mistake may have been treating people so poorly that no one cared enough to preserve the company’s online presence.

Some also reminded readers that Wikipedia isn’t intended to function as free advertising, and companies only remain on the site if they meet independent notability standards—not because they created a page about themselves.

This person praises OP.

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This person is in agreement as well.

And this person has jokes.

Sometimes the pettiest revenge isn’t breaking the rules—it’s simply letting the existing ones do the work for you.