I thought that at first too, but then I figured it's pretty impressive that the app is processing $6M/month even though the financial platform pre-existed.
Not a "promotion deal" - that's way too strong a term, plus it feels ickily corporate. Who wants a "promotion deal"? Yuck.
But yes, we are in touch with the Hack Club people and are delighted to help turn some of the amazing creative work their kids are coming up with into decent Show HNs. I'm sure everyone can agree that a project like this one deserves some support:
There's no guarantee anything will "go viral" of course—that's up to the community. But we're happy to help the
creators do their writeups in a way that fits HN's conventions. HN can be inscrutable to outsiders, and kids are by definition outsiders since they haven't been around for years to absorb the vibes.
(and btw, the same goes for any student or young person working on a project that the HN community might find cool and enjoy discussing)
The problem is that some companies are indeed hiring regularly for the same role, while others presumably are not. How do you propose that we tell them apart?
Understood, will avoid doing so in the future. I see it's already been detached.
It's not clear this comment specifically violated any of the guidelines, but I appreciate that more of the same would deteriorate the spirit of the monthly hiring roundup. Given HN is IMO one of the last remaining places on the internet worth visiting, I'm happy to oblige a request from mods that seem to be both reasonable and honorable in how they go about maintaining that community (touche).
In GOT, Littlefinger correctly points out to Sansa, "There is no justice in this world, not unless we make it." I slept better last night having posted this solution after radio silence following three interviews and a followup email. Some balance has been restored to the moral universe, even if it was just a minor annoyance to $CORPORATION.
A more productive and appropriate solution would be to assemble and then post a ShowHN submission of a repository of anonymously-submitted technical interview problems associated with corporations that elect to conduct business like this. I'll opt for that route in the future and hopefully be in the position to use my actual name, when I'm not threatened by the asymmetry of doing so.
Know your worth, kids. Keep at it, work those side projects, build your website, keep your head up. Programming rocks, corporations don't. Happy holidays <3
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