Ask HN: Just saw a YC25 job posting front page that looks like a 7-day work week

#1

Post by walrus01 » Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 1:26 AM UTC

This is on the front page right now: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/salespatriot/jobs/M46X6YX-forward-deployed-engineer

Some notable things:

a. Go. Fly out and plant yourself inside the customer's operation. Weekdays are onsite (Wisconsin, New York, Miami, Los Angeles); weekends we regroup at the SF HQ to debrief and keep building.

Sounds like a 7 day work week to me.

b. Absolute grinder. Interested in co-living (though not required). Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change.

You're expected to work 7 days a week and completely blur the line between personal and professional life by "co-living"? What kind of person wrote this?

Re: Ask HN: Just saw a YC25 job posting front page that looks like a 7-day work week

#2

Post by walrus01 » Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 1:38 AM UTC

Adding URL here in a comment to make it clickable

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/salespatriot/jobs/M46X...

Re: Ask HN: Just saw a YC25 job posting front page that looks like a 7-day work week

#3

Post by andsoitis » Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 1:45 AM UTC

Yes and? If this is not appealing to you, don't apply. But for some the travel and being at different customer sites is energizing and fun.

Re: Ask HN: Just saw a YC25 job posting front page that looks like a 7-day work week

#4

Post by edot » Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 1:46 AM UTC

I mean, for 0.15-0.20% and a top end salary of $200k living in SF that sounds like a great opportunity!

Re: Ask HN: Just saw a YC25 job posting front page that looks like a 7-day work week

#5

Post by walrus01 » Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 1:55 AM UTC

andsoitis wrote: post #3

Yes and? If this is not appealing to you, don't apply. But for some the travel and being at different customer sites is energizing and fun.

I don't know if I'd really define "some" travel as flying SF to NYC (or SF to Miami, or Wisconsin) every sunday afternoon/evening, and then flying NYC to SF every Friday evening. That meets a definition more like "constant" to me rather than "some".

Re: Ask HN: Just saw a YC25 job posting front page that looks like a 7-day work week

#6

Post by altairprime » Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 1:58 AM UTC

Yes, they explicitly brag about this in their LinkedIn feed:

(1 month ago) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/salespatriot_forward-deployed...

> Forward Deployed Engineers in the wild. We said "go relax." They brought their laptops onto a duck float. Because when you're helping customers manage supplier communications semi-autonomously and speed up America's defense industrial base, "break" is a relative term. This is the energy.

(I don’t make a habit of checking that site but happy to make an exception to answer this post’s ‘did I interpret correctly?’.)

Re: Ask HN: Just saw a YC25 job posting front page that looks like a 7-day work week

#7

Post by kaikai » Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 2:08 AM UTC

edot wrote: post #4

I mean, for 0.15-0.20% and a top end salary of $200k living in SF that sounds like a great opportunity!

Don’t get me wrong, $200k is a lot of money, but it’s not a top end tech salary in SF.

Re: Ask HN: Just saw a YC25 job posting front page that looks like a 7-day work week

#8

Post by kaikai » Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 2:10 AM UTC

I got a recruiting email recently for a job that had 5 days onsite, but SATURDAY was work from home, listed like it was a perk.

It’s wild out there.

Re: Ask HN: Just saw a YC25 job posting front page that looks like a 7-day work week

#9

Post by horticulturist » Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 2:12 AM UTC

Seems more like a cult than a job. Hopefully the equity is like… a lot.

Re: Ask HN: Just saw a YC25 job posting front page that looks like a 7-day work week

#10

Post by gedy » Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 2:12 AM UTC

kaikai wrote: post #8

I got a recruiting email recently for a job that had 5 days onsite, but SATURDAY was work from home, listed like it was a perk. It’s wild out there.

https://theonion.com/laid-back-company-allows-employees-to-w...