Re:My Y Combinator experience
by charlesnw on Thursday March 05, 2015 @12:07PM
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I actually would of reacted the exact same way. It's clear that this is a completely new dev environment and an intentional divorce from xcode/eclipse etc. The people interviewing couldn't get that. They showed zero understanding of the problem space. They were clearly stupid.
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Re:My Y Combinator experience
by MatthewMcDonald on Thursday March 05, 2015 @01:08PM
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>The people interviewing couldn't get that. They showed zero understanding of the problem space. They were clearly stupid.
It's always possible that they wanted to see how the team would react to those types of questions. We had a very similar experience during our interview (asked questions that we thought were clearly explained in the application).
There was a bit of discussion on this topic yesterday here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9147252
The people interviewing want to be educated on why the current solutions aren't good enough. Being snarky or dogmatic isn't a good way to educate someone who wants to learn. The founders could have done a better job.