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- Is this better? I can’t tell
https://filthydreams.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/View-Job...
by beiarea - Is this legal under California labor law?by toomuchtodo
- Probably? I imagine most of these jobs are 'exempt' and so paying for overtime isn't required. Otherwise, obscene hours are legal as long as the employer is paying overtime (including paying hours for missed rest periods)
Anyway, most of the work is going to be done out of state...
by toast0 - Adding URL here in a comment to make it clickable
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/salespatriot/jobs/M46X...
by walrus01 - You get to work from home two days a week: Saturday and Sunday.by newsomix9xl
- But also a good portion of every Sunday is going to be flying coach all the way across the continent to NYC or Miami, because you're expected to be on-site at the customer premises at 8am every Monday! You'd better be sure to get some work done on that flight or the company leadership will notice.by walrus01
- I guess I’m too European to believe this is in any form real or what is actually expected of you.by sph
- Sadly, it’s spot-on for startups that have the power of belief as a core work ethic. They want devotees and they’ll find them. Most techies are no more immune to cults than average (‘I just want to feel like I belong somewhere’ etc.), and it reads like someone running a playbook that they found in a military recruiting manual. Not many will bite, but those that do will have an unquenchable fervor for the great work. At least it’s refreshingly competent psyops!by altairprime
- It’s not common as far as overall jobs go. The weird exceptions and stories get more attention online, make them seem more frequent than they are.
I’ve never worked anywhere or been interviewed at a place that asked this absurd schedule of their employees.
by duxup - Saw this too.
Their name is Sales Patriot, hiring a "FDE", and they are funded by YC.
That should be enough information by itself.
- 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.by ofjcihen
- The being expected to fly around the country weekly in conjunction with 'this is not a remote position' is pretty wild.by vetrom
- If a person is expected to spend 1.5 to 2.0 days out of a 7 day week in SF and the rest of the time travelling to some random location in the 48 states, you might as well make your legal residence a state with no state income tax (since obviously you don't spend >51% of your year in SF).by walrus01
- Do they think their clients aren't going to notice when the engineers they're paying $5k/day for are turning up on a Monday morning already dog tired?
This is a glorified consultancy, and there's a reason why consultancies don't work like this.
by roryirvine - 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.
by kaikai - by gedy
- 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.by vgeek
- We need to start our own "YC sociopath under 30" to keep tabs on them and follow their career pathby sph
- 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?’.)
by altairprime - > Because when you're helping customers manage supplier communications semi-autonomously and speed up America's defense industrial base
What a thing to obsessively devote your life to.
by verzali