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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Also, happy 4th July in advanceā¦I guess.)
Get your popcorn folks. Who would win: one unethical developer juggling āemployment trial periodsā, or the combined interview process of all Y Combinator startups?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44448461
Apparently one indian dude managed to crack the YC startup interview game and has been juggling being employed full time at multiple ones simultaneously for at least a year, getting fired from them as they slowly realize he isnāt producing any code.
The cope from the hiring interviewers is so thick you could eat it as a dessert. āHe was a top 1% in the interviewā āHe was a 10xā. We didnāt do anything wrong, he was just too good at interviewing and unethical. We got hit by a mastermind, we couldnāt have possibly found what the public is finding quickly.
I donāt have the time to dig into the threads on X, but even this ask HN thread about it is gold. Iāve got my entertainment for the evening.
Apparently he was open about being employed at multiple places on his linkedin. Iām seeing someone say in that HN thread that his resume openly lists him hopping between 12 companies in as many months. Apparently his Github is exclusively clearly automated commits/activity.
Someone needs to run with this one. Please. Great look for the Y Combinator ghouls.
Alongside the āGreat Dumbassā theory of history - holding that in most cases the arc of history is driven by the large mass of the people rather than by exceptional individuals, but sometimes someone comes along and fucks everything up in ways that canāt really be accounted for - I think we also need to find some way of explaining just how the keys to the proverbial kingdom got handed over to such utter goddamn rubes.
Iām sorry but what the hell is a āwork trialā
Iām not 100% on the technical term for it, but basically Iām using it to mean: the first couple of months it takes for a new hire to get up to speed to actually be useful. Some employers also have different rules for the first x days of employment, in terms of reduced access to sensitive systems/data or (Iāve heard) giving managers more leeway to just fire someone in the early period instead of needing some justification for HR.
Ah ok, Iām aware of what this is, just never heard āwork trialā used.
In my head it sounded like a free demo of how insufferable your new job is going to be
Unethical though?
Iām not shedding any tears for the companies that failed to do their due dilligence in hiring, especially not ones involved in AI (seems most were) and involved with Y Combinator.
That said, unless you want to get into a critique of capitalism itself, or start getting into whataboutism regarding celebrity executives like a number of the HN comments do, I donāt have many qualms calling this sort of thing unethical.
This whole thing is flying way too close to the "not debate club" rule for my comfort already, but I wrote it so I may as well post it
Multiple jobs at a time, or not giving 100% for your full scheduled hours is an entirely different beast than playing some game of āIām going to get hired at literally as many places as possible, lie to all of them, not do any actual work at all, and then see how long I can draw a paycheck while doing nothingā.
Like, get that bag, but ew. Itās a matter of intent and of scale.
I canāt find anything indicating that the guy actually provided anything of value in exchange for the paychecks. Ostensibly, employment is meant to be a value exchange.
Most critically for me: I canāt help but hurt some for all the people on teams screwed over by this. Iāve been in too many situations where even getting a single extra pair of hands on a team was a heroic feat. Iāve seen the kind of effects it has on a team tthatās trying not to drown when the extra bucket to bail out the water is instead just another hole drilled into the bottom of the boat. That sort of situation led directly to my own burnout, which Iām still not completely recovered from nearly half a decade later.
Call my opinion crab bucketing if you like, but we all live in this capitalist framework, and actions like this have human consequences, not just consequences on the CEOās yearly bonus.
Nah, I feel you. I think this is pretty solidly a āplague on both their housesā kind of situation. Iām glad he chose to focus his apparently amazing grift powers on such a deserving target, but letās not pretend that anything whatsoever was really gained here.
source? (jk jk jk)
Not doing your due dilligence during recruitment is stupid, but exploiting that is still unethical, unless you can make a case for all of those companies being evil.
Like if he directly scammed idk just OpenAI, Palantir, and Amazon then sure, he canāt possibly use that money for any worse purposes.