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Ask HN: Why do some YC companies keep posting the same job bi-weekly?

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Re: Ask HN: Why do some YC companies keep posting the same job bi-weekly?

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post #7

Some companies advertise solely to make themselves look dynamic to investors.

"Hmm Meticulous have been looking for a #3 founding engineer for 18 months, they're sooo dynamic"

Oh wow, you weren't kidding: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

First post for founding engineer #3 was back in June 2022.

Re: Ask HN: Why do some YC companies keep posting the same job bi-weekly?

#13
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Hmm Meticulous have been looking for a #3 founding engineer for 18 months, they're sooo dynamic"

Yeah I've seen this a lot and while I understand the whole "hire slow, fire fast" mentality, there's a point where you've got to bite the bullet and take a chance.

I’d argue theyre just running a marketing campaign, post an advert about software engineer, at a company offering software engineering products, id like to see how many felt for it and introduced the product at their companies, how better you can target your primary target?

Re: Ask HN: Why do some YC companies keep posting the same job bi-weekly?

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post #7

Some companies advertise solely to make themselves look dynamic to investors.

"Hmm Meticulous have been looking for a #3 founding engineer for 18 months, they're sooo dynamic"

I was always curious what was going on there. I definitely have a negative impression of them already based on their recurring job ads for the elusive 3rd engineer.

Re: Ask HN: Why do some YC companies keep posting the same job bi-weekly?

#18
post #7

Some companies advertise solely to make themselves look dynamic to investors.

"Hmm Meticulous have been looking for a #3 founding engineer for 18 months, they're sooo dynamic"

Trying to find some poor sap to build your startup for 18 months doesn't signal what they think it does, lol.

Re: Ask HN: Why do some YC companies keep posting the same job bi-weekly?

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I can't say anything about YC specifically, but, anecdotally from working at a great place that was fairly well known and that constantly had job calls going out for months to years on end, it's because the bulk of people applying actually sucked at either software engineering or at not being weirdly aggressively rude or both.

You might think that the people on HN are all super brilliant engineers with patience and social grace in spades, but I doubt it.

Re: Ask HN: Why do some YC companies keep posting the same job bi-weekly?

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post #2

How frequently are YC companies allowed to post on the front page? I got over two dozen applications to my "who's hiring" thread post. (People want to work in Rust and AI/film/gaming, which might skew our numbers.)

You only got two dozen (~24) applications for a job posting!? How is that possible in this current job market where jobs get hundred of applications within days?

That's not to say hundred of qualified applications, just applications in general, unqualified and qualified.

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