Ask HN: Just saw a YC25 job posting front page that looks like a 7-day work week
This is on the front page right now: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/salespatriot/jobs/M46X6YX-forward-deployed-engineer Some notable things: a. Go. Fly out and plant yourself inside the customer's operation. Weekdays are onsite (Wisconsin, New York, Miami, Los Angeles); weekends we regroup at the SF HQ to debrief and keep building. Sounds like a 7 day work week to me. b. Absolute grinder. Interested in co-living (though not required). Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change. You're expected to work 7 days a week and completely blur the line between personal and professional life by "co-living"? What kind of person wrote this?
Discussion Highlights (16 comments)
walrus01
Adding URL here in a comment to make it clickable https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/salespatriot/jobs/M46X...
andsoitis
Yes and? If this is not appealing to you, don't apply. But for some the travel and being at different customer sites is energizing and fun.
edot
I mean, for 0.15-0.20% and a top end salary of $200k living in SF that sounds like a great opportunity!
altairprime
Yes, they explicitly brag about this in their LinkedIn feed: (1 month ago) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/salespatriot_forward-deployed... > Forward Deployed Engineers in the wild. We said "go relax." They brought their laptops onto a duck float. Because when you're helping customers manage supplier communications semi-autonomously and speed up America's defense industrial base, "break" is a relative term. This is the energy. (I don’t make a habit of checking that site but happy to make an exception to answer this post’s ‘did I interpret correctly?’.)
kaikai
I got a recruiting email recently for a job that had 5 days onsite, but SATURDAY was work from home, listed like it was a perk. It’s wild out there.
horticulturist
Seems more like a cult than a job. Hopefully the equity is like… a lot.
newsomix9xl
You get to work from home two days a week: Saturday and Sunday.
ofjcihen
The founders look like they can’t be out of their early-mid 20’s… this stinks of a frat-house 3 AM convo that made it to the next morning.
vetrom
The being expected to fly around the country weekly in conjunction with 'this is not a remote position' is pretty wild.
hackable_sand
Saw this too. Their name is Sales Patriot, hiring a "FDE", and they are funded by YC. That should be enough information by itself.
toomuchtodo
Is this legal under California labor law?
android521
let me guess, the founders must be chinese origin.
vgeek
I clicked through each of the founder's LinkedIn profiles for that posting because something seemed... off about it. One was listed as a Forbes 30 under 30, combined with the language/curation of their pages, made me think these are going to join the likes of Holmes/SBF/Charlie Javice.
ungreased0675
Sounds insane. A delusional lunatic would expect that from an employee, and only a crazy or extremely desperate person would take that job. What’s the equity and salary for completely dedicating your entire life to this company? Why not just hire two or three normal 40-hour employees?
beiarea
Is this better? I can’t tell https://filthydreams.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/View-Job...
JSR_FDED
I wouldn’t touch this with a 10ft pole. But I know this wasn’t ever intended for me - they’re looking for young single people who’ll buy in to the cult aspect of it. However, there’s a scenario worth considering. If you believe that early career people are most at risk of being replaced by AI, then doing a job like this for even a single year is a very compressed way to get several years of experience in a short time. Multiple different customer situations (different industries, tech stacks, cultures), and living in the cult HQ also means you absorb a lot of the experiences of your colleagues through osmosis. After this when you’re looking to go work for a real company, you’re in a much stronger position in a tight employment market when you can point to 10 actual projects you’ve done with lots of variety.