Ask HN: Are YC startups *actually* hiring?

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Lazyapply

As a YC company that is currently hiring, yes. And all of the companies I know are also struggling to find engineers. But the job listings (HN, WorkAtAStartup) practically never bring in good candidates. A few big problems: 1. AI Spam. I categorized the inbound we got the other day from a job post. Out of 172 daily applicants, we got 22 that looked reasonably like a person, and 150 that were primarily AI generated messages. Which are pretty easy to spot because they're 500 words of tech jargon and rehashing the job description. A lot of companies are putting prompt injections in their JD to help cut down on this. 2. Purely automated applications. There are a lot of "Apply to 1000 jobs with AI" startups out there that just spam job boards [1][2][3]. It lowers the signal to noise ratio so much that it's better to just do outbound. 3. There is a shocking number of engineers applying to work at an AI company who have never made a single API request to OpenAI. Like 90%+ of the people we interview. After three years of hearing about AI every day if you've never tested a single inference API then why are you applying to an AI startup. [1]https://lazyapply.com/ [2]https://aiapply.co/ [3]https://www.reddit.com/r/GetEmployed/comments/1eo8uyp/i_used_ai_to_automatically_apply_for_1000_jobs/.

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AIApply.co

As a YC company that is currently hiring, yes. And all of the companies I know are also struggling to find engineers. But the job listings (HN, WorkAtAStartup) practically never bring in good candidates. A few big problems: 1. AI Spam. I categorized the inbound we got the other day from a job post. Out of 172 daily applicants, we got 22 that looked reasonably like a person, and 150 that were primarily AI generated messages. Which are pretty easy to spot because they're 500 words of tech jargon and rehashing the job description. A lot of companies are putting prompt injections in their JD to help cut down on this. 2. Purely automated applications. There are a lot of "Apply to 1000 jobs with AI" startups out there that just spam job boards [1][2][3]. It lowers the signal to noise ratio so much that it's better to just do outbound. 3. There is a shocking number of engineers applying to work at an AI company who have never made a single API request to OpenAI. Like 90%+ of the people we interview. After three years of hearing about AI every day if you've never tested a single inference API then why are you applying to an AI startup. [1]https://lazyapply.com/ [2]https://aiapply.co/ [3]https://www.reddit.com/r/GetEmployed/comments/1eo8uyp/i_used_ai_to_automatically_apply_for_1000_jobs/.

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