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Join the YC Software Team
- hsikka 9y agoAwesome, Sam. I'm definitely applying!
- koolba 9y agoHow much do you guys pay?
- theparanoid 9y agoYou've demonstrated unsuitability for the role.
- kjksf 9y agoI wonder if YC partners and lawyers and other staff (https://www.ycombinator.com/people/ https://www.ycombinator.com/people/) work for free or below market rates. Did they ask how much the job pays before signing on the dotted line or did they took the job, damn the ability to pay rent. Or is it faux pas only if it's a lowly coding monkey dares to ask to be properly compensated by a successful (I assume) corporation (Y Combinator, LLC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Combinator_(company) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Combinator_(company)) ?
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- Judgmentality 9y agoSam has mentioned before that partners have a sliding scale from minimum wage to $300k, with significantly more and less equity, respectively. Most people choose the lowest salary (of course most of those people are already independently wealthy). https://twitter.com/sama/status/633380242288017408 https://twitter.com/sama/status/633380242288017408
- jacquesm 9y agoThat'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.
- koolba 9y agoUnless you're working for a public company and the shares have no strings or vesting schedule attached, the "value stock at $0" rule applies.
- sjg007 9y agoEquity in YC seems like quite reasonable compensation..
- sidlls 9y agoWhy value it at other than $0? It's a private company and we have no idea what encumbrances there are on the shares. Hell, I work for a publicly traded company and have an "ok" RSU grant for which I value the unvested shares at $0.
- kjksf 9y agoActually, 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 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 have substantial profits, but don't expect to grant options, sell shares, or get bought. Consulting firms and law partnerships are often LLCs. YC is an LLC." So the shares in YC are worth $0.
- Judgmentality 9y agoUnless the YC shares are actually shares in all their companies, including DropBox and AirBnB which will inevitably IPO at some point.
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- snowmaker 9y agoWe pay pretty well, both salary and equity :).
- koolba 9y agoEverybody says that. Without actual numbers, this is the some as all the other job listings that people rail about where you go through N levels of interviews to find out they want to pay you half a grilled cheese sandwich per day.
- throwthisawayt 9y agoCan 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 ?
- snowmaker 9y agoI think the greatest engineering benefit is being able to take advantage of YC's reach to have a lot of influence. 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.
- kjksf 9y agoI 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 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 Carmack and Torvalds with business acumen of Steve Jobs) or there's something extremely unappealing about this job (after all it does seem like building CRUD apps in rails; you get to rub shoulders with Greatness Of Other People but there's curious absence of "competitive salary", or any salary, in the job description).
- vit05 9y agoMaybe they have a lot of employee turnover. Always hiring because there is always someone going out to work on a new idea.
- TP4Cornholio 9y agoWell, it you view this page's source. You'll see tags that haven't been used since the 90s like <center>. Maybe the jobs are to maintain legacy systems and alot of engineers don't want to maintain legacy systems. Still, seems like having Y Combinator on your resume would look great.
- snowmaker 9y agoHiring engineers is competitive :). Great engineers have a lot of options. We are seeing pretty good traction on our monthly job posts but we would still like to find a couple more great people.
- blaurence5 9y agoIs 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?
- snowmaker 9y agoThere is some. The job is not primarily to be a "technical advisor", but it definitely comes up. 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.
- webmaven 9y agoFrom the actual job listing (http://bit.ly/1Od0T2l http://bit.ly/1Od0T2l): > We [...] don't hire people who want to work remotely. Boo. Hiss.
- snowmaker 9y agoSorry. 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.
- yctgr 9y agoDo you sponsor visas for people from India or China?
- legojoey17 9y agoTotal shot in the wild here, but would YC be interested in having an intern? (Waterloo student here, so something from Sept. to Dec.)