AI startup CEO who Amazon got suspended from college starts new ‘employee dating' policy: ‘Please message me directly…'
Artificial Intelligence startup
Cluely
has introduced a new perk for employees: a matchmaking program that rewards staff for successfully referring dates for their colleagues. In a post shared on professional networking site LinkedIn, the company's CEO Chungin "Roy" Lee unveiled this "companywide policy". Under the new policy, employees will receive $500 (around Rs 43,000) for each successful date referral. The incentive is "stackable," meaning an employee can earn multiple bonuses by setting up different colleagues. The 21-year-old CEO was suspended from
Columbia University
after
Amazon
pressured the school over his AI tool, which provided undetectable real-time assistance in exams and interviews held in virtual settings. Lee even used the tool to succeed in interviews at major tech firms before publicly showcasing it, leading to revoked offers and a university investigation.
What Cluely CEO said about the new employee dating policy
Announcing the policy, Lee wrote:
'Cluely now offers $500 cash referrals for dates. Here's the memo I sent out today: "@everyone NEW COMPANY-WIDE POLICY: If any employee refers a date for any other employee (that they are happy with), the referring employee will receive a one-time cash bonus of $500. This is infinitely stackable. ie if Ben refers a date to Neel whom Neel is happy with, and then subsequently refers a date to Brandon, whom Brandon is happy with, Ben would receive $500 + $500 = $1,000"
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Please message me directly if you find any members of the Cluely team attractive. Dating is, and will always be, an important part of our culture until we are all happily married.'
Lee, who was a computer science student at Columbia University, was suspended last year for violating the university's Academic Integrity Policy. The AI tool he developed, which at that time was called Interview Coder, helped users with coding interviews.
Using it, Lee even secured internship offers from tech giants like Amazon, Meta, and TikTok. He later shared a YouTube video demonstrating its use during an Amazon interview, which reportedly led Amazon to complain to Columbia University. In response, Lee said he had already declined the offer and defended his tool as a critique of outdated interview practices.
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