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Comment by ok_coo | Hacker News Reader

Can we stop seeing their job postings on HN every other day now?

I don’t know how you don’t get blacklisted after something like this.

The way the job postings are abused around here is a bit of a joke, there’s another company who has been hiring their third employee for over a year now, either they have someone and are lying as their first interaction with people or they can’t hire people or maybe they keep firing employee number 3 before they get any shares.

Who knows which one it is but I wouldn’t want to work with people like this. An easy solution is just let people comment on job listings, it will soon prevent abuse and allow people to get clarification and learn more about the work environment.

This rang a bell, so I went for searching. Said company is Meticulous [0]. Their most recent job post was on 2023-08-27. Their oldest job post that I could find was on 2022-06-07 [2].

[0] https://www.meticulous.ai

[1] Meticulous (YC S21) is hiring #3 engineer. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37286598

[2] Meticulous (YC S21) Is Hiring #3 Founding Engineer in London. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31657187

They're on the front page again today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37463864

Not a great look for anyone who read these comments...

At it again today.

They are a YCombinator Company.

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flexport

The takeaway for me is "Yes, YC has a nice forum, but they're not a reputable organization."

They're a ycombinator company. All of the job postings are.

Ah, so ultra-whitelist that crap behaviour then.

More constructively, it would seem the perfect time to demonstrate model behaviour.

Why don't the job postings follow the karma system?

It’s a “perk” of Ycombinator investment. From what I understand the exposure is supposed to be the same, probably to help boost early stage companies.

I’ve wanted to comment on job listings many times, but it’s part of the deal of being on HN. This isn’t just here for fun, it’s here to promote Ycombinator and further their goals.

I do wish those posts allowed commenting. Would love to get clarification on the kind of role being offered, and see discussion around the company itself. Without that, they feel like an ad and draw similar amounts of interactions from me by default.

They don’t just feel like an ad, they are an ad. You might not interact with ads (I’m usually similar), but they may still get enough interaction to be worth it to YC.

If HN wont block it maybe someone can tell how to block these Flexport jobs with a ublock filter.

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