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Ask HN: Do YC startups hire remote employees from other countries?
I am asking in general, if you have experience working with a other companies, and want to work for YC startups, Is it possible to get job in these startups working remotely.
I would love to hear your thoughts.
- tcper 2y agoMost of them, no
- evbogue 2y agoIs this because working IRL in the same room or building is more productive?
- jacknews 2y agolol proof for your assertion?
- JonChesterfield 2y agoIt will be because the mental image of a startup involves herman miller chairs and everyone in one room, grinding out broken code while sleep deprived against a background of colleagues fighting in a corner. With beer. That this stereotype is self evidently absurd doesn't really detract from the psychological pressure to imitate. It's like the companies who carefully copy all the hiring practices they've heard about from Google but don't bother with the compensation or aggressively targetting specific university graduates to recruit from. It's really easy to get a single room with a beer fridge and make everyone stressed, and some successful companies had that property, so let's copy the properties we know how to. An alternative game plan would be to try to copy the aspects of companies that made them successful, as opposed to the aspects that are easy to copy, but that's very much harder to do.
- patmorgan23 2y agoNeither. legal and compliance. If you hire someone in a new country you now have to comply with that country's labor and tax codes, a lot of times that means setting up a new legal entity in that jurisdiction. This can be really difficult/impractical for smaller companies.
- ReDeiPirati 2y agoI think that's a false myth, there are now EOR like Deel and Remote.com that make this super easy today. There's also the "false contractors" route, i.e. hiring remote contractors but treating them like employees. Which is also a quite common setup among early stage startups with a fully distributed DNA.
- voytec 2y agoIT engineers in Poland willing to work for companies abroad, opened small businesses and applied for an European tax number. We work as contractors - not employees - so no regional employment laws apply and we're just issuing invoices for services rendered.
- pella 2y ago"Jobs at Y Combinator startups" Remote: https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs/role/all/remote https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs/role/all/remote India: https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs/location/india https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs/location/india Europe: https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs/location/europe https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs/location/europe Canada: https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs/location/canada https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs/location/canada
- hiyer 2y agoI think so. I don't work at one, but I've interviewed at a couple of them in the past (both contacted me through the yc.com/jobs portal) and both were remote opportunities in India.
- Devraj4522 2y agoWhere were company located, and what is your country?
- hiyer 2y agoI live in India. Both companies are located in US, but they had employees worldwide.