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> But it's widely assumed that they won't remember the application at all by the time of the interview.

Really? They're calling you in for an interview and they don't have your application in front of them and haven't refreshed their memory? YC gets results, so I guess if it works it works, but I find it surprising that the assumption is they're going to be unprepared like that?

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There is only a minute of deliberation between interviews which isn't enough time to pull out the next application and refresh on it before the next interview is scheduled to begin.

Hmm, that led me to several assumptions that I'm not sure I would make without that information. Seems interesting. Thank you for sharing.

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