Job applicant deleted company website from Wikipedia after CEO showed his true colors during interview: ‘He kept me waiting an hour, hadn't read my resume, tried to get personal info’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Jul 7, 2026 1:00 PM EDT

Have you ever left a job interview and felt like the company doesn't deserve to even exist? The interview was so terrible, and you were treated so poorly, that you want to stop other people from having the same experience.

Unfortunately, you can't really bring a whole company down after one bad interview. But that doesn't mean that you can't have the last word, and maybe show the hiring manager who's the real boss here. You just have to be clever and creative enough to pull it off.

These days, when a company has a bad reputation, there are several ways you can find out about it, the main one being Glassdoor. This website allows people to leave their honest reviews about a company and its people, and prevents some job seekers from signing a contract with companies that truly don't deserve their time. But leaving a bad review is not enough for some people; they seek an opportunity to actually get revenge for the experience they were forced to go through.

That is what led the job applicant who shared the story below on Reddit's r/pettyrevenge to find their revenge on Wikipedia. 

Their interview with a company's CEO couldn't have gotten worse. The CEO was an hour late, didn't read the resume before, asked irrelevant questions, tried to get personal information on former coworkers, and all that in the span of a 10-minute interview. When the applicant finally left, they discovered Glassdoor and, with it, the many unhappy reviews that were left on this company and its CEO. They also discovered that the company has a Wikipedia page that was basically an ad for the company.

This job applicant was not the only one who saw this Wikipedia page as an opportunity to take revenge on the CEO and his poor treatment of potential employees. Many turned to this page and left their mark, but this applicant took it one step further. They cleverly found a way to get the page deleted for good. The rest will be uncovered in the story below.

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    Man looking at a company page on his laptop.
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    Man looking at a company page on his laptop.

    Subject is a model.

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    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 ride, hadn't read my resume before meeting
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    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.
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    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.
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    Interestingly, his company had a Wikipedia page, which he had clearly created, as it originally read like a marketing brochure.
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    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
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    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.
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    Wikipedia page opened on laptop.
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    Wikipedia page opened on laptop.

    Image is representative.

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    Well, I didn't want it kept around. F that guy and his company. So I applied the "Proposed Deletion" tag to it, which, if no one objects or edits
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    the page or removes the tag, will lead to the page being deleted seven days later.
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    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.
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    I repeat: Fk that guy and his company. Edit: I'm so amused by apparently receiving at least 24 downvotes on this, and I'm like... why?
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    nothinghurt I had a similar experience with an interview at Tubi. Guy was shockingly r.. 'e. This was like 12 years ago and I still refuse to use their service
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    ps_va Given that every toxic CEO reading sub would go and check in panic if their company wikipedia exists, i think you may have taken revenge on more than one. Good job!
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    techman710 I hope you did a little Rocky dance right after you found out. We have to celebrate our victories, no matter how petty. Today you are the champion.
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    Strange_One_3790 Going by this decline that you saw on Wikipedia, I wonder if this company is still in business?
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