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Re: Intern at a YC Company

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Any chance this will be an ongoing program not limited just to summers? I ask this because there are a growing number of schools (including mine) that have full time Intern/Co-op programs in during the Fall and Spring semesters that I know would have interested and talented students.

This is Kat, YC's Director of Outreach. We're beta testing this program on a small scale for Summer 2014. It may evolve based on how things go this summer, but I can see it becoming an ongoing program.

Re: Intern at a YC Company

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In case anyone still can't access it: Intern at a YC Company by Y Combinator Would you like to intern at a YC company this summer? We're helping place paid interns at YC-backed companies like Dropbox, Stripe, Optimizely and others. You'll get: > A chance to work with one of Silicon Valley's most exciting companies > An invitation to YC's intern conference Please fill out our application[1] by March 21, 2014. We'll no…

>Please enter the url of a 1 minute unlisted (not private) YouTube video introducing you. Does this violate equal opportunity employment or is there some weird legal exclusion?

As someone with no legal expertise in any area: Well, the companies are getting age/race/gender information from seeing you and they could use this information to discriminate against a protected class, but I don't see how its different from in-person interviewing where they would have access to the same information.

Re: Intern at a YC Company

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Any prospect of accepting high schoolers who have the necessary skills? Would it help if I am concurrently enrolled in college as well?

Go for it and apply. I'm sure you're qualified :-)

Thanks, I'm filling out my application at the moment :) Hopefully being in HS doesn't affect my prospects too adversely.

Re: Intern at a YC Company

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In case anyone still can't access it: Intern at a YC Company by Y Combinator Would you like to intern at a YC company this summer? We're helping place paid interns at YC-backed companies like Dropbox, Stripe, Optimizely and others. You'll get: > A chance to work with one of Silicon Valley's most exciting companies > An invitation to YC's intern conference Please fill out our application[1] by March 21, 2014. We'll no…

>Please enter the url of a 1 minute unlisted (not private) YouTube video introducing you. Does this violate equal opportunity employment or is there some weird legal exclusion?

YCombinator already openly discriminates man, there is no need for secrecy.

Re: Intern at a YC Company

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post #20
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Please enter the url of a 1 minute unlisted (not private) YouTube video introducing you. Does this violate equal opportunity employment or is there some weird legal exclusion?

Perhaps alternatively, this is a test by some hot new, stealth-mode YC startup to test the viability of video interview screening? And simply using interns as a small test subject pool. Furthermore, because interns are the testing pool. The turnover of selecting quality interns and seeing how they turn out over a summer internship would provide good data for whoever the startup is doing this.

They do the same thing for regular YC applications, so I don't think its anything crazy new.
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