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A YC25 Startup's 'Forward Deployed Engineer' Ad Describing Weekday Travel Plus Weekend HQ Work Hit the HN Front Page
An Ask HN at 79 points and 57 comments dissected a job posting from SalesPatriot, a YC-backed AI startup, advertising a Forward Deployed Engineer who works onsite at customer locations in Wisconsin, New York, Miami and Los Angeles on weekdays then regroups at the San Francisco HQ on weekends, seeking 'absolute grinders' open to co-living. Commenters cited the company's own LinkedIn post about employees on laptops during leisure time and judged the $200k salary inadequate at 60-plus hour weeks. The thread is a data point on how AI-startup hiring norms are being received by the practitioner audience, not just the labor-market commentariat.
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