[productlordtr]

Who would spend even a minute for a unknown company called 'Qdrant' ?

They would develop for Google because Google would give an additional value to their CV.

[throwaway5959]

This is an incredibly dumb comment that you should delete. Anyone even remotely aware of RAG, LLMs and vector databases has heard of Qdrant.

[bigstrat2003]

That was a dumb comment, but you are wrong. I am remotely aware of LLMs (how could one not be, in this day and age) and I have never heard of Qdrant.

[throwaway5959]

I knew putting LLM in that list of pre-reqs would result in a comment like this. Oh well.

[cdelsolar]

I am remotely aware of all the three things you listed (and have experimented a bit with them) and I haven't heard of them.

[anticensor]

Once a comment in Hacker News gets replies, it cannot be deleted anymore.

[olliej]

Yeah I think you’d take the GSoC so you could have qdrant and gsoc on your cv, but also many folk do need a job to pay bills, and even an “unknown” company paying bills and being experience on your CV is better than Walmart (in my case The Warehouse)

[edit: s/Qurans/qdrant, sigh autocarrot]

[pooper]

How much are they paying? It is $current_year and at some point we should demand that all job postings (this is a job posting) should come with salary ranges at a minimum.

Are they even compliant with the law with this post?

[dannyw]

https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/help/student-...

It’s not a job. It’s an incentivised open source contribution program for college students.

[rjsw]

When other organizations have done this they just pay the same as Google.

[LoganDark]

> we should demand that all job postings (this is a job posting) should come with salary ranges at a minimum

Agreed. Not even considering jobs that pay under 120k, not worth my time. The literal only reason to hide the range is so that you can lowball people

[olliej]

I have no idea :-/

[minimaxir]

They recently raised a Series A: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39101682

Additionally, the product that this Summer of Code is for is open-source so it's a win-win for everyone.

[jjtheblunt]

I wonder if Google wants rights to what is developed in GSoC.

If so, that might explain the lack of invitation.

[umanwizard]

> I wonder if Google wants rights to what is developed in GSoC.

They don’t. I participated in GSoC working on something that competes directly with Google (LibreOffice) and was never asked to assign copyright or anything like that.

IMO GSoC is a relatively cheap way for Google to get some goodwill and boost their brand among college students; it’s not really a core part of their competitive business strategy.

[jjtheblunt]

That's very cool then. Thanks for responding.

[jjtheblunt]

> ... unknown ...

This is a resounding instance of "tell me you don't know the domain without telling me you don't know the domain" and I think you'll find them interesting if you look into it.