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- I guess I’m too European to believe this is in any form real or what is actually expected of you.by sph
- 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
- 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 - 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
- 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