Just saw a YC25 job posting front page that looks like a 7-day work week
This is on the front page right now: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/salespatriot/jobs/M46X6YX-forward-deployed-engineer
Some notable things:
a. Go. Fly out and plant yourself inside the customer's operation. Weekdays are onsite (Wisconsin, New York, Miami, Los Angeles); weekends we regroup at the SF HQ to debrief and keep building.
Sounds like a 7 day work week to me.
b. Absolute grinder. Interested in co-living (though not required).
Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change.
You're expected to work 7 days a week and completely blur the line between personal and professional life by "co-living"? What kind of person wrote this?
Yes and? If this is not appealing to you, don't apply.
But for some the travel and being at different customer sites is energizing and fun.
I mean, for 0.15-0.20% and a top end salary of $200k living in SF that sounds like a great opportunity!
The being expected to fly around the country weekly in conjunction with 'this is not a remote position' is pretty wild.
You get to work from home two days a week: Saturday and Sunday.
I got a recruiting email recently for a job that had 5 days onsite, but SATURDAY was work from home, listed like it was a perk.
It’s wild out there.
The founders look like they can’t be out of their early-mid 20’s… this stinks of a frat-house 3 AM convo that made it to the next morning.
Seems more like a cult than a job. Hopefully the equity is like… a lot.
let me guess, the founders must be chinese origin.
Is this legal under California labor law?
Saw this too.
Their name is Sales Patriot, hiring a "FDE", and they are funded by YC.
That should be enough information by itself.
I clicked through each of the founder's LinkedIn profiles for that posting because something seemed... off about it. One was listed as a Forbes 30 under 30, combined with the language/curation of their pages, made me think these are going to join the likes of Holmes/SBF/Charlie Javice.
Sounds insane. A delusional lunatic would expect that from an employee, and only a crazy or extremely desperate person would take that job.
What’s the equity and salary for completely dedicating your entire life to this company? Why not just hire two or three normal 40-hour employees?
I wouldn’t touch this with a 10ft pole. But I know this wasn’t ever intended for me - they’re looking for young single people who’ll buy in to the cult aspect of it.
However, there’s a scenario worth considering. If you believe that early career people are most at risk of being replaced by AI, then doing a job like this for even a single year is a very compressed way to get several years of experience in a short time. Multiple different customer situations (different industries, tech stacks, cultures), and living in the cult HQ also means you absorb a lot of the experiences of your colleagues through osmosis.
After this when you’re looking to go work for a real company, you’re in a much stronger position in a tight employment market when you can point to 10 actual projects you’ve done with lots of variety.
I guess I’m too European to believe this is in any form real or what is actually expected of you.
I am not surprised thay this is an AI startup