Re:Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary range...
by JamesBarney on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @01:27PM
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What do you think they should have asked you that would have properly filtered you out?
Re:Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary range...
by neon_electro on Sunday December 18, 2022 @05:20PM
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I don't know - isn't that the employer's problem, not mine?
I was let go two weeks after they acquired a competitor. They claimed it was my performance that was the reason I was being let go, but when you have zero "negative performance" conversations with your manager despite having regular weekly/semi-weekly 1-1s, it's clear to me "performance" was not the driving issue.
Re:Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary range...
by mejutoco on Thursday December 15, 2022 @08:52AM
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How long did it take them to let you go?
Re:Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary range...
by neon_electro on Sunday December 18, 2022 @05:19PM
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I was there four months in total. They acquired a competitor two weeks before I was let go. I can connect the dots.
Re:Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary range...
by Firmwarrior on Friday December 16, 2022 @01:22AM
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Are you sure that wasn't a spot of impostor syndrome? Or do you think it was just a bad culture fit?
Re:Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary range...
by neon_electro on Sunday December 18, 2022 @05:19PM
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They acquired a competitor, doubling their headcount. Two weeks later, I was being let go.
Fast forward to this past February, and I'm being let go for "performance reasons", but it's a lot clearer in retrospect that I should've been failed out of their interview process if it was any good, and that seeking to hire someone within a week is now sort of a yellow flag for me.
I want to move fast, but I also want my counter-party to do proper due diligence.