You should stop making YC responsible for what any single portfolio company is doing. That's straight out hilarious. After the firms are out of batch they are independent and autonomous organizations.
[deleted]
Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary ranges when law requires it?
31–40 of 364 posts
Re: Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary ranges when law requires it?
#32Probably because HN is not a law enforcement agency for New York City. The law has some exceptions, perhaps those apply. Why not contact the company and politely ask for the salary range?
I'm not sure why you want me to politely ask a company to stop breaking the law?
Re: Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary ranges when law requires it?
#33No post body was provided.
Re: Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary ranges when law requires it?
#34I found an example on today's front page (Rutter): https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rutter/7b222f5f-cd46-4592-9cf8-6cd1... No salary range posted, job is in NYC.
14 minutes later, it now has a salary range:
> $175K-210K base compensation
'Post about the problem on HN' shows its power once again.
Re: Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary ranges when law requires it?
#35I found an example on today's front page (Rutter): https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rutter/7b222f5f-cd46-4592-9cf8-6cd1... No salary range posted, job is in NYC.
Hey sorry about that this is our job posting - we duplicated a another one and missed adding that information, thanks for catching that! We added in the salary range. Feel free to email us if you have any other questions!
Didn't mean to call you out specifically, just wanted to see if OP was correct. Thanks for being so responsive, it's a good sign for applicants!
Re: Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary ranges when law requires it?
#36Probably because HN is not a law enforcement agency for New York City. The law has some exceptions, perhaps those apply. Why not contact the company and politely ask for the salary range?
Maybe HN could require salary range in order to be promoted here (regardless of location or laws)?
You mean do the ethical thing, not just the legal thing?
Re: Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary ranges when law requires it?
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
This will certainly move you to the top of the list for hiring consideration. /s
The user in question sells alt data. If they’re remotely competent at doing so, they have zero need to work at a startup much less a YC-funded one.
What's alt data? I've never heard that term before.
Re: Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary ranges when law requires it?
#38I found an example on today's front page (Rutter): https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rutter/7b222f5f-cd46-4592-9cf8-6cd1... No salary range posted, job is in NYC.
Hey sorry about that this is our job posting - we duplicated a another one and missed adding that information, thanks for catching that! We added in the salary range. Feel free to email us if you have any other questions!
Why not add it by default?
Re: Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary ranges when law requires it?
#39Probably because HN is not a law enforcement agency for New York City. The law has some exceptions, perhaps those apply. Why not contact the company and politely ask for the salary range?
I'm not sure why you want me to politely ask a company to stop breaking the law?
That wouldn't count as polite. I suggested asking the company for the salary range. If they decline to answer then you make your own decision about that.
Re: Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary ranges when law requires it?
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's not the point. YC lends credibility to these companies by funding them, so allowing them to post illegal job ads on a platform controlled by YC strongly implies that YC has no problem with that practice. This is the appropriate venue to talk about it and make YC aware of it.
It's not YC's job to monitor global regulatory compliance for every company they fund.
We're not talking global compliance here though, this is a US-based fund, these are US-based startups, and the regulations involved are by some US states. One would hope national regulatory compliance does fall at least partially under the things they monitor.
I agree it's unrealistic to expect them to monitor compliance across the globe, of course.