The way the job postings are abused around here is a bit of a joke, there’s another company who has been hiring their third employee for over a year now, either they have someone and are lying as their first interaction with people or they can’t hire people or maybe they keep firing employee number 3 before they get any shares.
Who knows which one it is but I wouldn’t want to work with people like this. An easy solution is just let people comment on job listings, it will soon prevent abuse and allow people to get clarification and learn more about the work environment.
This rang a bell, so I went for searching. Said company is Meticulous [0]. Their most recent job post was on 2023-08-27. Their oldest job post that I could find was on 2022-06-07 [2].
It’s a “perk” of Ycombinator investment. From what I understand the exposure is supposed to be the same, probably to help boost early stage companies.
I’ve wanted to comment on job listings many times, but it’s part of the deal of being on HN. This isn’t just here for fun, it’s here to promote Ycombinator and further their goals.
I do wish those posts allowed commenting. Would love to get clarification on the kind of role being offered, and see discussion around the company itself. Without that, they feel like an ad and draw similar amounts of interactions from me by default.
They don’t just feel like an ad, they are an ad. You might not interact with ads (I’m usually similar), but they may still get enough interaction to be worth it to YC.
Who knows which one it is but I wouldn’t want to work with people like this. An easy solution is just let people comment on job listings, it will soon prevent abuse and allow people to get clarification and learn more about the work environment.