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Most of them aren't really hiring, but instead using the thread as covert advertisement for brand. In fact, HN largely exists in general to promote YC companies

Most of them aren't really hiring, but instead using the thread as covert advertisement for brand. In fact, HN largely exists in general to promote YC companies. Why would they allow comments on these threads, of which a large majority are likely to be negative, given this agenda?

azemetre 4y ago
Yeah, a company that routinely posts gives a “referral” link but it just leads to their normal career page and there’s nothing I can tell that actually makes your application a referral. It’s disappointing because this is a company I’ve been trying to interview at for nearly 4 years now.
- dang 4y ago
  Email me at hn@ycombinator.com and I'll try to help.
  - azemetre 4y ago
    Thanks for reaching out I’ll email you later today.
dang 4y ago
> Most of them aren't really hiring, but instead using the thread as covert advertisement for brand. Do you have any evidence of that? If that's actually true, we would stop those companies from posting job ads. As I said elsewhere, though (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32587596 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32587596), you really shouldn't be cavalier with allegations of abuse. > HN largely exists in general to promote YC companies That's definitely not true, or at least a huge overstatement. I've written a lot about this in the past if anyone wants explanations of how we think about this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=yc%20business%20interests%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20moderate%20%22less%2C%20not%20more%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... It would be closer to the truth to say that HN exists to help new YC companies come into existence, since the biggest benefit is more startups getting started, applying to YC, and getting funded by YC. Even one large such success would pay for hundreds of years of HN.

azemetre 4y ago

Yeah, a company that routinely posts gives a “referral” link but it just leads to their normal career page and there’s nothing I can tell that actually makes your application a referral. It’s disappointing because this is a company I’ve been trying to interview at for nearly 4 years now.

dang 4y ago
Email me at hn@ycombinator.com and I'll try to help.
- azemetre 4y ago
  Thanks for reaching out I’ll email you later today.

dang 4y ago

> Most of them aren't really hiring, but instead using the thread as covert advertisement for brand. Do you have any evidence of that? If that's actually true, we would stop those companies from posting job ads. As I said elsewhere, though (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32587596 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32587596), you really shouldn't be cavalier with allegations of abuse. > HN largely exists in general to promote YC companies That's definitely not true, or at least a huge overstatement. I've written a lot about this in the past if anyone wants explanations of how we think about this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=yc%20business%20interests%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20moderate%20%22less%2C%20not%20more%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... It would be closer to the truth to say that HN exists to help new YC companies come into existence, since the biggest benefit is more startups getting started, applying to YC, and getting funded by YC. Even one large such success would pay for hundreds of years of HN.