YC reintroduced resumes after founders kept checking applicants on LinkedIn
Matt Long · Announcing Work at a Startup · Y Combinator · Jun 22, 2018 · at 8:51
Matt Long, software engineer at Y Combinator building Work at a Startup, explains why the platform abandoned its resume-free application process.
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“We actually now do ask you for a resume just because, you know, after, after not having it for a long time, a lot of times the first thing founders would tell us, you know, when we ask them how, you know, how they're liking the product is, well, this is great, but I don't know anything about them. And kind of the first thing I have to do all the time is just go look at their LinkedIn profile.”
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