bmahmood
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Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
Amplitude (YC W12) | Product Engineer | https://amplitude.com/
Amplitude is a product intelligence platform, helping companies use self-serve analytics to make better product decisions. We're one of YC's Top 50 startups, already surpassing $100M in revenue this year serving customers like Twitter, Paypal, Atlassian, & Instacart.
We're now building a new team in our company to build the next $100M product, and looking for our first product engineer. This is an opportunity to work on a startup within a startup, building the foundation for a new frontend app and design system from scratch.
Tech: JavaScript, React, CSS, Python, Node, Postgres, GraphQL
Apply @ https://boards.greenhouse.io/amplitude/jobs/4551252002
Comment · 7 years ago
Likely unpopular opinion here, but it seems a little unfair to fault YC founders for believing "that the way to win was to hack the test", when the YC application itself would seemingly select for founders that exhibit this behavior with questions like "When have you most successfully hacked a non-computer system to your advantage?"
I'd posit the YC application in and of itself shares some of the facets that the article is critiquing in a "test". The fact there are paid services popping up to review YC applications reminds me of SAT Prep services.
For our first grant, we focused on small business development, specifically restaurant closures. We mined public data, talked to affected restaurants, as well as academics and politicians.
We found some expected causes (falling sales) as well as unexpected (labor flight).
Would be happy to answer questions about our methodology or findings!