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It's also in the original post. Greptile, HockeyStack, and others from that cohort of 20-year old founders out of YC were having software engineer candidates come in day-in and day-out, staying until 9PM under the threat of being rejected if they left earlier.

They were not paid at all, they were working long-term on a "trial period". And yes it's very illegal. I was there and saw it first-hand.

The guys they had on trial periods - though I'm sure they were very intelligent - were not really firing on all cylinders if you know what I mean.

It says right there, 7-day work weeks (no days off).

Also they were part of the cohort forcing workers to stay minimum until 9PM.

Like every AI company, their "product" is a Next.js website, OPENAI_API_KEY, and a Stripe checkout page.

When npm decided to have per-project node_modules (rather than shared like ruby and others) and human readable configs and library files I think the goal was to be a developer friendly and highly configurable, which it is. And package.json became a lot more than that as a result, it’s been a great system IMO.

Combined with a hackable IDE like Atom (Pulsar) made with the same tech it’s a pretty great dev exp for web devs