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Heh, waiting for the post-interview phone call was a real nail-biter, we basically spent the entire evening waiting for the phone to ring. But it didn't. It di

by hussong 17y ago

Heh, waiting for the post-interview phone call was a real nail-biter, we basically spent the entire evening waiting for the phone to ring. But it didn't. It didn't even occur to us that they might call our land line back home until we got the email the next morning. Remotely checking the answering machine was fun too, hadn't used that feature in ages and the code didn't work (turns out you can't send DTMF tones when calling via Skype). At the time we weren't sure if they give everyone a call or just the ones they accept, so we didn't take the absence of a call as a 'no', but kept wondering. In the end, we got the answer about 26 (pretty exciting) hours after we left the interview room. So, unless you're a thrill seeker, put your cell number in the application :-)

madmotive 17y ago
You get an email when you don't get in with a nice couple of lines explaining why. Our email came in the early hours of the morning. I'd encourage you not to respond to it, at least for a few days. I felt compelled at the time to send a few paragraphs the next morning responding to some of the criticisms. Retrospectively it probably wasn't that all that useful to anyone. It must be an exhausting 3 days for the YC team. I don't think there are enough hours in the day for them to call all the unsuccessful interviewees. Especially when some of them (like us) will want to take more of their time responding to feedback. The quantity and quality of the questions and feedback you get in the short 10 minute interview alone is brilliant. Even though we didn't get funded it's had a massive impact on the way I think about things. I'd fly out from the UK to do it again even if there wasn't any chance of funding.
jl 17y ago
Or just be sure to tell me at the end of the interview which number you'd like us to call that night.
- btilly 17y ago
  From the article, We’d given Jessica cards with our cell-phone numbers on them during the interview, but that didn’t seem to have registered. I take that to mean that they tried to make it clear how to call them, but for whatever reason signals got crossed.
anateus 17y ago
I know people who have sent DTMF over skype. You just need to...try harder :>

by hussong 17y ago

madmotive 17y ago

You get an email when you don't get in with a nice couple of lines explaining why. Our email came in the early hours of the morning. I'd encourage you not to respond to it, at least for a few days. I felt compelled at the time to send a few paragraphs the next morning responding to some of the criticisms. Retrospectively it probably wasn't that all that useful to anyone. It must be an exhausting 3 days for the YC team. I don't think there are enough hours in the day for them to call all the unsuccessful interviewees. Especially when some of them (like us) will want to take more of their time responding to feedback. The quantity and quality of the questions and feedback you get in the short 10 minute interview alone is brilliant. Even though we didn't get funded it's had a massive impact on the way I think about things. I'd fly out from the UK to do it again even if there wasn't any chance of funding.

jl 17y ago

Or just be sure to tell me at the end of the interview which number you'd like us to call that night.

btilly 17y ago
From the article, We’d given Jessica cards with our cell-phone numbers on them during the interview, but that didn’t seem to have registered. I take that to mean that they tried to make it clear how to call them, but for whatever reason signals got crossed.

anateus 17y ago

I know people who have sent DTMF over skype. You just need to...try harder :>