Sounds like someone full of himself. I’m never going to work more than 8 hours a day for a company, preferably less even. I still get more stuff done in those hours that I do work.
I care a lot about what I do, but I’m not going to destroy myself or my life for someone else’s company. Already did that for the military, never again.
The fetishization of a youthful founder, the ridiculous interview questions, and as I personally made the mistake of doing a phone screen with them before learning some of this, the recruiter admitted that their compensation was “startup compensation” aka we want the smartest people who are dumb enough to work for half the money.
And the cherry on top of course is that the world changing product they are building is, wait for it, labeling data. It’s basically YCs version of Poes Law where it sound like satire but it’s actually real.
> Guys I’m not salty, I’m sweet :3
> But for real, I think this company is super promising. Most FANG company have their own in-house system for hiring labelers, and I know that it’s extremely valuable for any ML team. Getting trusted, reliable and cost effective labeled data is not easy for smaller companies. I actually feel honored that I even got to interview for them in the super early stages.
Now, it's -possible- this guy means just, have you -ever-, because, sure, there have been times I've been really excited about something and spent a lot of time on it...but I don't think that's fair either. Even those times, for my own stuff, I did better stepping away from it and coming back the next day.