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Is there much interaction with YC portfolio companies on the technical side? Also, have there previously been folk on the Software Team who have joined (or founded) YC companies?
The software team is too new (only about 2 years old) for people to have left to start YC companies yet, but I'm sure it will happen.
How much do you guys pay?
How much do you guys pay?
From the actual job listing ( http://bit.ly/1Od0T2l ): > We [...] don't hire people who want to work remotely. Boo. Hiss.
Can you talk about engineering benefits for working on this team besides "you will get to network with hot startups and stuff"? Maybe a bit more color on the technical challenges / culture ?
For example, the YC startup school MOOC was built by one engineer in 2 months. It's now had a major effect on over 10,000 companies who participated. That's pretty cool.
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That's a great question. One interesting bit on the job application page: > We offer standard startup benefits, including equity in YC. As a member of YC, you'll also have opportunities to get to know a lot of the best people in the startup world. But no mention of a salary. In this particular case I'll make an exception to the rule that you should value your stock at $0.
Actually, it's rather clear that Y Combinator has no plans for an exit event. To quote Paul Graham himself ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13784 ): "Ordinarily a startup should be a C corp. It's cheaper to be an LLC, but if you plan to succeed, you may as well do things right from the start. With an LLC profits don't get taxed twice like in a regular corporation. So it makes sense to be an LLC if you expect to…
I can't help but wonder. They've been posting this job for several months in monthly "Who's hiring" thread (here's one from 227 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12628215 ) I can't imagine that they're hiring 100s of people. I also assume that people do apply because it's YC. And yet, the position goes unfilled for months. Either they have extremely unrealistic standards (a dna-spliced cross-breed of Car…
Maybe they have a lot of employee turnover. Always hiring because there is always someone going out to work on a new idea.
From the actual job listing ( http://bit.ly/1Od0T2l ): > We [...] don't hire people who want to work remotely. Boo. Hiss.
Sorry. Because YC is an in-person program, we've never been great at remote work. Lots of YC companies do it well - you should check them out.
Hmm. Is this seen (internally) as a problem that needs fixing?
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Sorry. Because YC is an in-person program, we've never been great at remote work. Lots of YC companies do it well - you should check them out.
> Because YC is an in-person program, we've never been great at remote work. Hmm. Is this seen (internally) as a problem that needs fixing?