On the employer side: Pretty tight, hard to find talent.
On the employee side: It's good. Salary are OK considering the decent cost of living. The AI boom is helping bringing more options for smart and qualified people.
Feel free to email me if you have more questions, know some companies that are looking ;)
Your VC friends only claim to use a similar model as this and it is not true. It is also falsifiable empirically - you could verify it experimentally if you really wanted.
You can email me at the email in my profile if you wanted. (I am not affiliated with YC and I'm not a VC, though.)
It is a much better summary of how they actually make decisions (as opposed to what they report). I won't try to summarize it, just read those 11 paragraphs - but I will quote "If you remember one piece of advice about investors, it's that you've got to create some type of competitive situation."
This is entirely absent from the article (which is wrong.) "Table 2: Important Factors for Investment Selection" is entirely, laughably wrong.
It is simply not the way VC's actually make their investment decisions. At all. (Certainly at the seed stage.) Completely wrong. Sorry.
The way the data was structured is they were asked what is the MOST important factor (you can only chose one) whereas other parts of the survey were what are the important factorS.. Might create the confusion.
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