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What do you think are the causes for the first three things you wrote about?

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Interviews are broken because companies are cargo cults. What Google did yesterday, Stripe will do today.

It's because to find true signals of a senior engineer needs longer than 35 mins spent on a problem and you need to pair that with a developer who is trained in the art of interviewing so that they can extract the biggest things one needs to test: overall architectural principles, thinking through things, how one protects their code from mistakes etc.

But companies are not willing to spend time doing this because HR is basically not trained even today to deal with real technical thinking.

Unless there are a bunch of devs moving into HR, things will not get better.

Companies don't care that much either. Most companies pretend they need much more talent than they actually require.


Which professor?


I really wish I could point you to a timestamp. I think it was this series.

https://youtu.be/TjZBTDzGeGg?si=jNbm7K3e--buioPp


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What is your experience level?

How long have they been doing it and is that 50k ARR 200k ARR?

15% seems low.


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How recent was recently?

> https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/new-year-new-company

> What if I already applied to W24?

> Unfortunately, you won’t be eligible. This is only for founders who did not already apply for W24, since we already sent out notifications for our regular application cycle.

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38572504

> we know there are founders that haven't already applied

> This is for founders that did not already apply for the W24 batch at some point in the past.

Looks very explicit. Did you not find those explicit rules when you were looking?

Also looked at the number of times they mentioned founder and the number of times they mentioned different idea.


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