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ryankicks

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About ryankicks

product & hiring at yc/work at a startup. product & engineering at lyft, twitter and salesforce. yc w13 styleup. mit & berkeley.

contact me about working at a YC startup, internships or starting your own company.

- ryan AT ycombinator DOT com - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryankicks/

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    Comment #48751306

    *Y Combinator | Product Engineers | San Francisco (Onsite) | Full-time | https://www.ycombinator.com/software YC is hiring Product Engineers to build the future of YC -- and increa…

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    Comment #47976574

    Y Combinator | Product Engineers on YC's own team | San Francisco | Full Time | $185K-$485K I'm Ryan, an EM and engineer here at YC. We have a small, 18-person software team with n…

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    Comment #45444080

    Y Combinator | Dogpatch, San Francisco, CA | Full-time, In Person | https://www.ycombinator.com YC has been building ever-more ambitious software for founders to succeed -- since G…

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    Join YC's Ruby Meetup on August 13th at Our New SF Headquarters

    YC is co-hosting a Ruby Meetup on August 13th to bring together fellow rubyists! We’ll have tech talks from YC founders sharing their novel uses of Ruby in the wild — and how it’s …

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    Comment #40858164

    Y Combinator | https://www.ycombinator.com/careers | Full-time | San Francisco (In person only) | ryan@ycombinator.com My name is Ryan and I’m an Engineer & EM here on Y Combinator…

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    Comment #40571129

    Y Combinator | https://www.ycombinator.com/careers | Full-time | San Francisco (In person only) | ryan@ycombinator.com My name is Ryan and I’m an Engineer & EM here on Y Combinator…

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    Comment #40237955

    Y Combinator | https://www.ycombinator.com/careers | Full-time | San Francisco (In person only) | ryan@ycombinator.com Why would you want to work at YC? Well, the short of it is th…

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    Y Combinator is hiring full stack engineers – learn tons about startups

    My name is Ryan and I’m an Engineer & EM here on Y Combinator’s software team. I’ve helped us hire 8 of the amazing people on our team, and – spoiler alert! – we’re hiring for thre…

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    In-person YC Startup Tech Talk and hiring mixer on 12/4 in SF

    On 12/4, YC is hosting a Tech Talk in SF to showcase some of our early-stage startups that are hiring. They'll give a talk on their tech, share more about their company, and talk a…

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    YC's Meet The Founders: San Francisco (Wednesday March 8th YC SF)

    We're excited to host an in-person tech hiring event on Wednesday, March 8th at 5:30 PM at Y Combinator's San Francisco office. This will be the first in-person hiring event we've …

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    Comment #34100820

    In May 2022 [updated], YC did tell their startups to better control their spend. It wasn't intended for public consumption, but it did get on TC: https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/19/…

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    Comment #34100522

    "hi, it's me. i'm the problem it's me." but in seriousness, i'm one of the people here trying to uplevel hiring at YC startups, and at startups more broadly. this thread is helpful…

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    Comment #34100478

    I got a chance to connect with OP -- thank you again for your thoughtfulness and balance. While I (and YC) am trying to help founders create postive interview experiences for candi…

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    Comment #34099495

    Lots of good points here, on both sides of the hiring equation. In a strong market, candidates have been able to shop around, get multiple offers (based on interest, comp, etc) and…

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    Comment #34099310

    Our hiring portal is a start, and we see lots of YC companies hire first employees/founding engineers on it. But any additional insights you have -- especially from the candidate's…

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    Comment #34097016

    Hi Grustaf, Ryan here at YC. I help build YC’s workatastartup.com, and also work with companies to help them find great people for their teams. Part of that includes teaching them …

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    YC Event: Becoming a founding engineer at a YC startup, Aug 10th

    We see a lot of interest from HN on what working at a startup is like, and particularly being one of the first few engineers. Next Wednesday, YC is running an event to learn more a…

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    Founding engineer roles at W22 YC startups

    Below are a few of the most recent YC startups (Winter '22 batch) hiring for founding engineers, with compensation in the $160-180K range and equity around 1.5-2.0%. Find more foun…

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    Comment #31584034

    Y Combinator Job Expo, June 6th 2022 | Engineering, Product, Design | Virtual Y Combinator is hosting our Summer Job Expo online on Wednesday, June 8th, 4 pm PT. This is a way to m…

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    Join YC's Career Expo June 8 to meet YC founders and find open roles

    Y Combinator is hosting our Summer Career Expo online on Wednesday, June 8th, 4 pm PT. This is a way to meet the latest batch of YC startups (W22 & S21) and learn about open foundi…

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