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Contact the company, and tell them they need to publish their salary range. Or else you'll report them to the NYC Attorney General (or whoever is in charge of t
by altdataseller 4y ago
Contact the company, and tell them they need to publish their salary range. Or else you'll report them to the NYC Attorney General (or whoever is in charge of this thing). Maybe they're ignorant. Or they're hoping noone calls them out on this. Either way, make sure they know the consequences if they don't publish it
- scrapcode 4y agoThis will certainly move you to the top of the list for hiring consideration. /s
- meta2023 4y agoThe user in question sells alt data. If they’re remotely competent at doing so, they have zero need to work at a startup much less a YC-funded one.
- eloff 4y agoWhat's alt data? I've never heard that term before.
- sampo 4y ago"What Is Alternative Data and Why Is It Changing Finance?" https://builtin.com/fintech/alternative-data https://builtin.com/fintech/alternative-data
- yamtaddle 4y agoTL;DR: Info gleaned from just about any source other than company statements and market data, used to guide investment choices. This includes stuff like satellite imagery, which has been used for a long time for these sorts of purposes, but also e.g. social media trends. I guess the news is that there's more of it happening now, because the practice itself isn't new.
- eloff 4y agoFascinating.
- meta2023 4y agoSome tangible examples are: credit card transaction data, individual geolocation or foot-traffic data from mobile phone sdks or carriers themselves, receipts scraped/exfiltrated from email inboxes, individual browsing history, or highly targeted web scraped data. All "anonymized" of course.
- HeyLaughingBoy 4y agoThere are polite ways of accomplishing that.
- ok_dad 4y agoYes, because everyone is absolutely jumping in their boots to work at a company where HR ignores the law, either through ignorance or malice the same.
- scrapcode 4y agoGood way to filter out candidates that are either ignorant of the requirements and/or do not "buck" the system. Realistically, it's either a company that doesn't think this will be enforced, doesn't think the punishment would outweigh the benefits, or circumvents the requirements legally such as posting a single announcement in their lobby (public place) that does list the salary range.
- manholio 4y agoThat's not the point. YC lends credibility to these companies by funding them, so allowing them to post illegal job ads on a platform controlled by YC strongly implies that YC has no problem with that practice. This is the appropriate venue to talk about it and make YC aware of it.
- drstewart 4y agoIt's not YC's job to monitor global regulatory compliance for every company they fund.
- matsemann 4y agoBut when YC posts these ads on their HN front page..?
- fipar 4y agoWe're not talking global compliance here though, this is a US-based fund, these are US-based startups, and the regulations involved are by some US states. One would hope national regulatory compliance does fall at least partially under the things they monitor. I agree it's unrealistic to expect them to monitor compliance across the globe, of course.
- pgodzin 4y agoIt's actually enforced by the NYC Commission on Human Rights