At a Sequoia-organized hiring event (which was dubbed as a conference) in New York this October, I got a chance to interact with over 10 of YikYak engineers, their hiring manager (ex-Google) and the CEO.
The CEO had an unconventional background (was in med school at Furman), so I was interested in knowing how he made it. I was shocked to see that he didn't have any insights about how anything at the firm worked. I asked him how he raised funds, he replied that he found a family friend who worked in startups and everything was good from there.
I wasn't interested in getting a job as I already have one, but the arrogant hiring manager didn't stop his attempts at (literally) pushing me towards a computer and asking me to apply.
The (now, unfortunate) engineers were the only people who had some clue what they were doing (they had some really decent cross-language optimization problems)...
The CEO had an unconventional background (was in med school at Furman), so I was interested in knowing how he made it. I was shocked to see that he didn't have any insights about how anything at the firm worked. I asked him how he raised funds, he replied that he found a family friend who worked in startups and everything was good from there.
I wasn't interested in getting a job as I already have one, but the arrogant hiring manager didn't stop his attempts at (literally) pushing me towards a computer and asking me to apply.
The (now, unfortunate) engineers were the only people who had some clue what they were doing (they had some really decent cross-language optimization problems)...