ryguytilidie
Joined 15 years ago
Joined 15 years ago
Or, for the last two years, Covid and only Covid.
And anyone who disagrees with him, including the world's leading experts are stupid.
Then he has Alex Jones on to say provocative things to boost his audience.
But yes, we will call this open research, and not being a shock jock somehow...?
Come on, you can't be on hacker news and have this poor of critical thinking skills, right?
-One of them will have a dead battery, even though they've been in a perfectly clean case that charged it yesterday and will charge it tomorrow. -They will no longer be paired with my phone for some reason. -They will pair with my phone, but just not recognize that they should be the primary audio output and calls will just play on speaker phone.
But sure, they "just work".
My FAVORITE feature ever is: "huh. You just woke up on a Tuesday and need to get to work? Well, we've logged you out of all your accounts and need you to log in again."
The worst.
In 2015 I was laid off from a startup that unfortunately shut down.
During my search I was intro'ed by their VC to the CTO. The CTO told me they were hiring for my exact, kind of niche role. I was pretty pumped as I hadn't really lost a job before and wanted to get something new quickly.
I met the CTO at a coffee shop, he kept asking me a bunch of questions that were clearly more being asked with the intention of picking my brain about a project versus interview questions. I asked him what was up and he said they hired someone for the role the week before, but that he wanted to pick my brain so he kept our time on calendar.
I had taken BART into the city, pushed back a different interview and taken time out of my day so a CTO with a ton of funding could exploit my labor for zero compensation.
I said something along the lines of, "um, okay I need to focus on my job search, good luck." and got up to leave. He then kind of did this act as if I was being kind of a dick for not helping him.
Luckily a Director of Engineering I'd worked with at a past company was sitting two tables away and I said hi and he said he had overheard what happened and I ended up interviewing at his company.
Still, to this day, seeing all of those "Flexport is hiring!" posts has always made me wonder how much of their interview process is just wasting the time of potential employees. They seem like they have a fairly noble mission, which is why I interviewed in the first place. But man, that whole situation still feels really gross to me.
I would never in a million years, as a business owner, message one of my clients and blame a vendor for bad service and want them to help solve the dispute.
I just do not get the thought process here. "Well, these people are paying us a ton of money every month and we're just swimming in profits. Lets ask those same customers to try to get us a better deal for us with Disney so that we'll be more profitable!
No.
What we do:
We're a Series A, ~50 person company building the operating system for hospital labor and capacity. Hospitals today manually forecast patient volumes and staff reactively—losing efficiency, increasing costs, and compromising patient care. Vitalize automates demand prediction (leveraging ADT data, historical patterns, and acuity scores to forecast patient census) and real-time staffing optimization.
Traction: $10M ARR < 2 years. Across 30+ hospitals
Who we're looking for: Engineers who learn quickly, reason clearly about hard problems, and thrive in a high-impact environment. If you're interested, email [email protected]
Stack: Typescript + Postgres + Effect. Large focus on being able to learn quickly and solve difficult problems
Comp: 160k - 270k + equity