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When you apply, you don't receive a return.
Have you had the same experience?
What are the odds of companies using job sections for advertising?
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.)
Some companies advertise solely to make themselves look dynamic to investors.
I've been meaning to look at the data to see what needs to be tightened or cleaned up there. Currently the rule is that active YC companies can have an ad at most once per two weeks (as you saw), with the caveat that priority is always given to the company that has waited the longest since their last ad or have never posted one before.
We don't monitor the accuracy of the ad content nor how the companies respond to applicants—not that those things aren't important, but we don't have the resources to check them.
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 assume you're talking about the front-page job ads described in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/jobguide.html ? I've been meaning to look at the data to see what needs to be tightened or cleaned up there. Currently the rule is that active YC companies can have an ad at most once per two weeks (as you saw), with the caveat that priority is always given to the company that h…
Maybe they should be required to re-word it once a month or once every 6 months. After awhile I start to be put off by the company's name just because of the perpetual noticing.