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.
As a non-US person this mentality baffles me.
Ask HN: Just saw a YC25 job posting front page that looks like a 7-day work week
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#42I guess I’m too European to believe this is in any form real or what is actually expected of you.
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#44I am not surprised thay this is an AI startup
Re: Ask HN: Just saw a YC25 job posting front page that looks like a 7-day work week
#45Yes, 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 th…
> Because when you're helping customers manage supplier communications semi-autonomously and speed up America's defense industrial base
What a thing to obsessively devote your life to.
Re: Ask HN: Just saw a YC25 job posting front page that looks like a 7-day work week
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You could have taken 20 seconds to do some casual research like googling name of company + founders, but nope, you just jumped to some casual racism. Good job. For the record, they're not.
Well, i am ethnically chinese myself. There are just too many chinese companies with 996 culture.
Re: Ask HN: Just saw a YC25 job posting front page that looks like a 7-day work week
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
You could have taken 20 seconds to do some casual research like googling name of company + founders, but nope, you just jumped to some casual racism. Good job. For the record, they're not.
Well, i am ethnically chinese myself. There are just too many chinese companies with 996 culture.
Looks like these guys have invented 997
Re: Ask HN: Just saw a YC25 job posting front page that looks like a 7-day work week
#48Do they think their clients aren't going to notice when the engineers they're paying $5k/day for are turning up on a Monday morning already dog tired?
This is a glorified consultancy, and there's a reason why consultancies don't work like this.
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#49I wouldn’t touch this with a 10ft pole. But I know this wasn’t ever intended for me - they’re looking for young single people who’ll buy in to the cult aspect of it. However, there’s a scenario worth considering. If you believe that early career people are most at risk of being replaced by AI, then doing a job like this for even a single year is a very compressed way to get several years of experience in a short time…
No future employer is actually going to credit you with any additional years of experience, it'll just be "oh, they did a year at a failed startup".
And if you claim to have done 10 projects in your first year of paid employment, people will just assume that they were all very shallow or that you only had minor involvement.
Pretty much any other job would be better.
Re: Ask HN: Just saw a YC25 job posting front page that looks like a 7-day work week
#50I guess I’m too European to believe this is in any form real or what is actually expected of you.
Sadly, it’s spot-on for startups that have the power of belief as a core work ethic. They want devotees and they’ll find them. Most techies are no more immune to cults than average (‘I just want to feel like I belong somewhere’ etc.), and it reads like someone running a playbook that they found in a military recruiting manual. Not many will bite, but those that do will have an unquenchable fervor for the great work. At least it’s refreshingly competent psyops!