• Mudassir Sheikha, the CEO of Careem, said he didn't want to hire people focused on pay or hours.

• Some workers on Blind called the CEO's LinkedIn post "tone-deaf" and "cringe."

• A spokesperson for Careem said the company offers competitive pay.

Tech workers took to the employee forum Blind to criticize a startup CEO after he wrote a list of characteristics that he didn't want in new hires, including staff who prioritized pay and those who want to "clock in and clock out" of work.

"While I can give you hundreds of reasons to join Careem such as the opportunities you'll have to learn and grow, create impact or work in a hybrid setting, let me instead share with you the reasons not to join Careem," Mudassir Sheikha, the CEO of the super app Careem, said in a LinkedIn post, adding that workers should not join the company if "your top priority is cash compensation."

"While you'll receive competitive compensation at Careem, there are much easier places to earn a paycheck," he said in the post. "For colleagues at Careem, their top priority is creating impact and fulfilling our purpose."

Sheikha added that Careem won't be a "comfortable 9 to 5" job and said workers who were looking for "structure and certainty" or a "fancy corner office" should avoid the company entirely.

"Colleagues at Careem don't clock in and clock out, they see things through the finish line like owners," he wrote in a post that generated over 220 comments on LinkedIn — many of which appeared to take issue with the CEO's statement.

An anonymous Roblox worker on Blind, which verifies an employee's place of work by requiring a company email address, called the post "tone-deaf" and "cringe" in a thread that generated nearly 650 responses. Insider did not independently verify the employment of the users cited in this story.