Wow, chalk seeing a BuzzFeed article on HN as one of the last things I thought I'd ever see...
JustFab: The Billion Dollar Startup with a Secret Past [1]
Larry Ellison's Cat Island [2]
Or literally dozens (hundreds?) of others. [3]
[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10278697
Considering that pretty much all of traditional journalism is now chasing Buzzfeed in style, it doesn't matter if you work for Buzzfeed or the imitators, you'll still be working at a place with the same basic approach. You might as well work at the one that is making the model work, rather than the ones that have latched on to it as the most recent attempt to slow their downward spiral.
Sites that are mostly junk but also put out the occasional good story are a significant problem for HN. We can't ban them, because losing good stories is worse than tolerating bad ones (the latter are annoying, but get flagged). Our solution is to penalize them, review the stories, and take the penalty off the good ones. The next step will hopefully be to distribute the review process to the community.