Notes on YC startups hires

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Tangential facts: programmers who use Vim with us pass interviews with companies at a higher rate than programmers who use Emacs, and programmers on Windows pass at a lower rate than programmers on OS X or Linux.



Two large YC companies (both with machine learning teams) have told us that they consider interest in ML a negative signal.



Recent college grads who have completed at least one internship pass interviews with companies at twice the rate of college grads who have not done internships (if you’re in university now, definitely do an internship).



Reading bios of founders and applying to companies where the CTO shares your background is probably an effective job-search strategy


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