Autotab (YC S23) | Founding Engineer | NYC | 6 days a week in the office
If AGI is going to 100x GDP, it will need to be able to use a computer.
Autotab is the first digital robot that controls a computer like a human. It excels at the highly repetitive tasks that make up the worst parts of modern knowledge work. If we succeed, we will provide the platform that unlocks the next 100x productivity increase, and frees humans from trillions of hours of soul-crushing work.
We are second time founders backed by OpenAI and YCombinator. We are live in production and are working with some of the biggest companies you use every day to handle critical tasks that humans used to do. We’re rapidly scaling up to meet demand, and building a 5-person founding team where everyone builds product and talks to users.
If you are technical and have founded or want to start a company we should talk!
> We think the most exciting thing you can do is build a great company tackling an important problem, and we work 6 days / week together in person doing that.
So it's probably accurate. Never seen that before, but it's an interesting tactic to encourage certain potential hires to self-select out of the process (for example, I would never apply to a job listing with this language). My gut reaction is that they're shooting themselves in the foot by doing this, but I have no data to back that up, and maybe the company has data indicating otherwise.
There's a certain 'techbio' startup that also has this same requirement. Judging by how long their positions tend to be open for, I would anecdotally say it's not a winning strategy.
If you just want a job that pays the bills, I respect your decision, but you should not apply.
The hardest and most important problems won't be solved working 9-5, 5 days a week.
Nobody feels like they "have to" come in on Saturdays - we find purpose in our work, and see it as the main way we can have a meaningful impact. We enjoy working, learning and spending time together.
We would much rather spend 70 hours a week doing great work than clocking in for 40 hours a week.
Respectfully, I disagree with just about every assertion you make here.
> Nobody feels like they "have to" come in on Saturdays
If you list it upfront in your job postings like you're doing here, people will feel like they have to work on Saturdays. Though it looks like maybe your company is just you and a co-founder at this point. If that's correct, it's a little misleading to say that "nobody" feels this way, when the only two employees of the company are the two cofounders that have the most skin in the game.
By setting this policy, you are filtering out a wide-ranging group of senior engineers with families, side projects, and other commitments (such as myself) who will read this and move on immediately (or comment "lol" like another reply below).
I'm not necessarily just "looking for a job that pays the bills," either; I advised, and then directly worked full-time for, a startup that grew from 2 cofounders in the late aughts to IPOing on the NASDAQ about 5 years ago.
Obviously, it's your company, and if it works for you, then great. However if I were an investor in your company I'd have serious qualms with it.
I meant that nobody feels like they "have to" come in in the sense that everybody wants to come in on Saturdays.
I don't feel like I "have to" work 6 days a week - I do it because I want to. You may say that this is just because I'm a cofounder, but that's not true - I did the same thing at past startups where I was an early hire, but not a cofounder. Because I enjoyed the work, found it meaningful and loved learning. This is the kind of person we're looking for.
Thank you, I understood what you meant, but I'm taking issue with your requiring that level of commitment from others, when there are absolutely people out there who would bring a ton of experience to the table for whom your requirements are complete non-starters.
Maybe you don't need highly experienced senior people at the stage you're at now, but you will at some point, and by setting this expectation now you're setting yourself up for failure in the future, IMHO (which is why I'd be questioning you heavily if I were an investor).
Agree 100% with this. I have found over the years (even when I was younger) that crunching or putting in a lot of extra hours generally results in subpar work.
>Nobody feels like they "have to" come in on Saturdays
Then why list it? I regularly work on Saturdays because I have an interesting problem I want to solve, but i'd never apply to a listing like this because it reads like the company is cosplaying as a high performing startup.
I peeked at your resume, and it doesn't seem like you've worked with top tier software teams previously. You may want to hire some outside help to cultivate an actual high performance culture.
Notice OpenAI and Anthropic aren't making statements like "six days a week in office"...
If AGI is going to 100x GDP, it will need to be able to use a computer.
Autotab is the first digital robot that controls a computer like a human. It excels at the highly repetitive tasks that make up the worst parts of modern knowledge work. If we succeed, we will provide the platform that unlocks the next 100x productivity increase, and frees humans from trillions of hours of soul-crushing work.
We are second time founders backed by OpenAI and YCombinator. We are live in production and are working with some of the biggest companies you use every day to handle critical tasks that humans used to do. We’re rapidly scaling up to meet demand, and building a 5-person founding team where everyone builds product and talks to users.
If you are technical and have founded or want to start a company we should talk!
More info: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/autotab/jobs/V5V8saO-f...