Comment by _lx4l
5 years ago
Having just experienced my first "brain rape" from a recent YC grad I concur. The behavior of Amjad is similar to what I experienced interviewing (and apparently performing free consulting) with the company I was just speaking with.
Maybe these situations are not the norm, but they are certainly happening.
Ugh. Now I feel a bit guilty for referring a friend and former co-worker of mine to a company that is also a recent YC grad... He got hired, so I'm hoping that's not the same company and that it's not the norm... but that sounds awful and demoralizing.
Between this, and the story the other day related to founders bragging about taking advantage of certain vaccination site - it certainly seems that there is a basic "asshole filter" somewhere that YC does not have tuned correctly. Alternatively, they do have it tuned - and they don't mind assholes so long as they make them money... But yeah, YC should probably respond to some of this. Even if it's not a trend, it seems to now have the appearance of one.