No hiring process is perfect, but when your company’s hiring process is more complicated than my college admission process, it’s a bad sign.

If I wanted this I’d have stayed in academics, with its 20-page CVs and multiple statements of purpose.

At least there if you win the tenure-track position lottery, and then the grant lottery, you have a good shot at winning the tenure lottery and getting some job security doing something you (probably) love.

Oxide is a startup with a finite runway.

Hard pass.