The fetishization of a youthful founder, the ridiculous interview questions, and as I personally made the mistake of doing a phone screen with them before learning some of this, the recruiter admitted that their compensation was “startup compensation” aka we want the smartest people who are dumb enough to work for half the money.
And the cherry on top of course is that the world changing product they are building is, wait for it, labeling data. It’s basically YCs version of Poes Law where it sound like satire but it’s actually real.
