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I may be remembering all this completely wrong, but I seem to recall yc offering a couple of alternatives to the usual application process - that you could appl
by abstractbill 19y ago
I may be remembering all this completely wrong, but I seem to recall yc offering a couple of alternatives to the usual application process - that you could apply with no idea, or you could apply with no co-founders and yc would hook you up as an early employee of a yc-funded startup.
Am I right about those offers, and are you still making them?
- pg 19y agoWe'll probably still let people apply with no idea. We just don't mention this on the site yet. As for second option, it's right in your menu bar: http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs
- blader 19y agoThis is just our experience interviewing last season. We applied with two ideas, both with prototypes. The discussion was pretty much exclusively about the idea - how new it is, how easy it is, how interesting it is, whether or not it's porn/music related (either category is probably not a good idea btw). We had a good response to both our prototypes, but ultimately we were told our idea didn't seem different enough. The impression I got from our interview was that the idea is actually pretty important. It kind of makes sense, since you're competing against other amazing hackers with good ideas. It doesn't matter as much if you're good -they all were-, you really do need a great idea to go with your team.
- sethjohn 19y agoJust because they spent the whole time asking you about your idea doesn't neccessarily mean they were mostly interested in your idea...getting someone to talk about their prototype is probably a much better way to guage who they are and how they think than asking "Who are you?, and how do you think?" Of course I wasn't there, so I don't really know what happened.