Needs to be a post mortem on how this was allowed to happen.
It's been happening for some time now. I saw this pop up over 6 months ago. After searching I can find some dating back at least a year.
Ask HN: Why is there some sort of a scam website being advertised on HN?
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#12Very weird I cannot flag it. It's definitely a scam. Normally one cannot flag ads. Did HN pay for this advertisement? Is this a YC company? I really doubt they would be funding a company like this.
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#13Was about to ask the same
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#14Wow, this doesn’t even look like the normal “hiring”/jobs post. Just a funnel straight into a potential scam :/ Shocking to see it here.
It looks like they might be using a loophole since their product is training for jobs they are using that as a substitute for, “we’re hiring.”
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#15Very weird I cannot flag it. It's definitely a scam. Normally one cannot flag ads. Did HN pay for this advertisement? Is this a YC company? I really doubt they would be funding a company like this.
It is either a YC company or the poster was (or is) a YC founder.
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#16I'm pretty sure I reported this some time ago, I remember the bullshit headline salary and non-headline hours:
80–100 hrs / week of production building
I may be misremembering but I think it got positive comments from pg on X[1] which was disappointing.
This website and company seem dubious to be polite.
Ah, here you go:
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...I've never seen a company with such dedicated haters. ...
https://x.com/paulg/status/2019770359830949961
https://xcancel.com/paulg/status/2019770359830949961
I have enough admiration for him to be willing to hear the argument and have my mind changed, but they clearly have friends at YC and on the surface it doesn't look good.
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#17When I saw this, I thought it was a paid advertisement on HN. yuck. At least when other companies do the jobs post it always includes "is hiring" to make it clear what it's for.
I could be wrong, but I thought the "is hiring" posts are from a mechanism specifically for Ycombinator companies (which is why they also don't have comments on them)
Re: Ask HN: Why is there some sort of a scam website being advertised on HN?
#18Gauntlet AI I believe is correlated originally with Lambda School (YC S17). YC founders I believe are able to post job postings on Hacker News, although this might stretch the definition a bit...
Re: Ask HN: Why is there some sort of a scam website being advertised on HN?
#19These guys are run by Bloomtech, one of those scammy coding bootcamp things.
Originally "Lambda School" if BloomTech doesn't ring a bell
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#20When I saw this, I thought it was a paid advertisement on HN. yuck. At least when other companies do the jobs post it always includes "is hiring" to make it clear what it's for.
I could be wrong, but I thought the "is hiring" posts are from a mechanism specifically for Ycombinator companies (which is why they also don't have comments on them)
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