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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Also, happy 4th July in advance…I guess.)
Get your popcorn folks. Who would win: one unethical developer juggling “employment trial periods”, 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 isn’t producing any code.
The cope from the hiring interviewers is so thick you could eat it as a dessert. “He was a top 1% in the interview” “He was a 10x”. We didn’t do anything wrong, he was just too good at interviewing and unethical. We got hit by a mastermind, we couldn’t have possibly found what the public is finding quickly.
I don’t have the time to dig into the threads on X, but even this ask HN thread about it is gold. I’ve got my entertainment for the evening.
Apparently he was open about being employed at multiple places on his linkedin. I’m 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.
I’m sorry but what the hell is a “work trial”
Alongside the “Great Dumbass” 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 can’t 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.
Unethical though?
I’m 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 don’t 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 “I’m 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 nothing”.
Like, get that bag, but ew. It’s a matter of intent and of scale.
I can’t 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 can’t help but hurt some for all the people on teams screwed over by this. I’ve been in too many situations where even getting a single extra pair of hands on a team was a heroic feat. I’ve seen the kind of effects it has on a team tthat’s 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 I’m 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 CEO’s yearly bonus.
source? (jk jk jk)
Nah, I feel you. I think this is pretty solidly a “plague on both their houses” kind of situation. I’m glad he chose to focus his apparently amazing grift powers on such a deserving target, but let’s not pretend that anything whatsoever was really gained here.