Ask HN: Just saw a YC25 job posting front page that looks like a 7-day work week
35 pointsby walrus013 hours ago13 comments
  • android5217 minutes ago
    let me guess, the founders must be chinese origin.
  • vetroman hour ago
    The being expected to fly around the country weekly in conjunction with 'this is not a remote position' is pretty wild.
  • altairprime2 hours ago
    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?’.)

  • newsomix9xl2 hours ago
    You get to work from home two days a week: Saturday and Sunday.
    • walrus01an hour ago
      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.
  • walrus012 hours ago
    Adding URL here in a comment to make it clickable

    https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/salespatriot/jobs/M46X...

  • kaikai2 hours ago
    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.

  • toomuchtodoan hour ago
    Is this legal under California labor law?
    • toast013 minutes ago
      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...

  • hackable_sandan hour ago
    Saw this too.

    Their name is Sales Patriot, hiring a "FDE", and they are funded by YC.

    That should be enough information by itself.

  • ofjcihenan hour ago
    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.
  • edot2 hours ago
    I mean, for 0.15-0.20% and a top end salary of $200k living in SF that sounds like a great opportunity!
    • kaikai2 hours ago
      Don’t get me wrong, $200k is a lot of money, but it’s not a top end tech salary in SF.
      • steve_adams_86an hour ago
        It’s quite poor given that you don’t get to have a life outside of work, too. I’d start to think that sounds great if it was a 4 day work week, but 7… Bizarre.
    • walrus012 hours ago
      200k in SF with CA income taxes and SF cost of living is not that much at all. It's low enough that "No, you can't ever hope to afford to buy a home or get a mortgage in the city of your legal residence" is a flat out fact.
      • duskwuff2 hours ago
        Good news / bad news: employees are also expected to "co-live in our Warsaw & SF Hacker Houses" (i.e. corporate frat house).

        Not quite sure how they get "teams of 20" living in those houses with a total company size of 15, though.

        • walrus01an hour ago
          Maybe they have some ex US Navy submariners that have introduced the concept of hot bunking.
    • gedy2 hours ago
      Are you serious? That's not much to be able to live there. And for the top end no less?
  • horticulturist2 hours ago
    Seems more like a cult than a job. Hopefully the equity is like… a lot.
  • caseymarlin2 hours ago
    [flagged]
  • andsoitis2 hours ago
    Yes and? If this is not appealing to you, don't apply. But for some the travel and being at different customer sites is energizing and fun.
    • walrus012 hours ago
      I don't know if I'd really define "some" travel as flying SF to NYC (or SF to Miami, or Wisconsin) every sunday afternoon/evening, and then flying NYC to SF every Friday evening. That meets a definition more like "constant" to me rather than "some".
      • duskwuffan hour ago
        Don't forget that you're flying NYC to SF to "regroup at the SF HQ to debrief and keep building". What, you thought you got the weekend off? Rise and grind.
    • browningstreetan hour ago
      It shouldn’t even be legal.
      • eqvinoxan hour ago
        It isn't, in a bunch of other countries.
      • amazingamazing24 minutes ago
        Why not? Should it be illegal for someone to have multiple part time jobs?