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Announcing Work at a Startup

From Y Combinator · Published Jul 22, 2018 · Watch on YouTube

TL;DR

Y Combinator launched “Work at a Startup,” a common application and matching platform for engineers seeking jobs at YC companies. Hiring is described as a hard “matching problem” that YC is addressing with software.

Key insights

  • Hiring engineers is the “number one problem” YC founders face after the program.
  • Work at a Startup originated from YC’s long history of helping companies hire via Hacker News job section and an internal founder forum for sharing candidates.
  • The initial beta (Dec 2017) intentionally did not ask for resumes; resumes were added later because founders wanted more candidate information.

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