Ammon Bartram

Everything Ammon Bartram said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

Y COMBINATOR Insight

Bartram: Bay Area candidates have a 10-20% advantage at small startups

“Smaller companies Do show a slight preference to local candidates. And so if your goal is to work at a small, let's say sub, you know, 20 person startup you're probably at a I don't know, 10 to 20% advantage if you're based in the Bay Area.”

Ammon Bartram May 17, 2017 ▶ 27:06 Hiring Engineers with Ammon Bartram · Y Combinator

Y COMBINATOR Assertion Not checkable as stated

Bartram: Very few companies evaluate candidates on flashy new tech

“Very few companies, especially only, generally only smaller ones, are like directly evaluating flashy new tech.”

Ammon Bartram May 17, 2017 ▶ 34:35 Hiring Engineers with Ammon Bartram · Y Combinator

Y COMBINATOR Insight

Bartram: Switch from evaluation to teaching mode when candidates fail interviews

“And a trick that, that we use that I think helps in that case is to sort of, in the case where a candidate is totally failing the interview, like, flipping a switch in your brain and going from, like, evaluation mode into teaching mode. You know, you're like, …”

Ammon Bartram May 17, 2017 ▶ 40:08 Hiring Engineers with Ammon Bartram · Y Combinator

Y COMBINATOR Insight

Bartram: Interview panels should never exceed two interviewers per candidate

“Like an interview panel definitely increases the stress. So we max out at two to one. So it's, training is important, right? So if you're trying to keep it consistent, you need to have Continue across, like, across, and people need to watch each other's interv…”

Ammon Bartram May 17, 2017 ▶ 40:47 Hiring Engineers with Ammon Bartram · Y Combinator

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Bartram: Google's computer-science-skewed engineering culture worked well

“Google, you know, has, intentionally or unintentionally, grown very much in a computer science direction, and that's obviously worked out, you know, very well for them.”

Ammon Bartram May 17, 2017 ▶ 5:20 Hiring Engineers with Ammon Bartram · Y Combinator

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Bartram: Cracking the Coding Interview's non-coding advice does not fit startups

“Cracking the Coding Interview has a pretty good list of questions. It's, the other advice in that book I don't think really applies to startups very much but the questions are good.”

Ammon Bartram May 17, 2017 ▶ 19:49 Hiring Engineers with Ammon Bartram · Y Combinator

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Bartram: Facebook provides interview prep classes to all applicants

“Facebook, for example, has started providing a sort of an interview prep class to everyone who applies so that they're sort of going over the material.”

Ammon Bartram May 17, 2017 ▶ 20:46 Hiring Engineers with Ammon Bartram · Y Combinator

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Every mention by year

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Ammon's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
Y COMBINATORLEDGER	Co-founder, Tabula Bio	1	31	0% 0/2	full record on the Y Combinator Startup Podcast →