Can you talk about engineering benefits for working on this team besides "you will get to network with hot startups and stuff"? Maybe a bit more color on the technical challenges / culture ?
From the actual job listing (http://bit.ly/1Od0T2l):
> We [...] don't hire people who want to work remotely.
Boo. Hiss.
Awesome, Sam. I'm definitely applying!
Total shot in the wild here, but would YC be interested in having an intern? (Waterloo student here, so something from Sept. to Dec.)
How much do you guys pay?
Is there much interaction with YC portfolio companies on the technical side? Also, have there previously been folk on the Software Team who have joined (or founded) YC companies?
Do you sponsor visas for people from India or China?
I can't help but wonder.
They've been posting this job for several months in monthly "Who's hiring" thread (here's one from 227 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12628215)
I can't imagine that they're hiring 100s of people.
I also assume that people do apply because it's YC.
And yet, the position goes unfilled for months.
Either they have extremely unrealistic standards (a dna-spliced cross-breed of Carmack and Torvalds with business acumen of Steve Jobs) or there's something extremely unappealing about this job (after all it does seem like building CRUD apps in rails; you get to rub shoulders with Greatness Of Other People but there's curious absence of "competitive salary", or any salary, in the job description).