Y Combinator Interview Practice Simulation
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The post shares a tool for simulating Y Combinator interview practice, with the community discussing its usefulness and potential improvements for founders preparing for startup interviews.
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The privacy policy and security model isn't as reassuring as I'd like. Knowing industry practices and competency, I wouldn't trust this Web site with any information I didn't want leaking out.
(1) Investor persona engine maintaining consistent VC behavior across multi-turn conversations,
(2) Beyond conversation, we've built specialized analysis that evaluates pitch answers for clarity, specificity, confidence, and directness, identifying exact problems like "you avoided the metric question" or "your answer was too vague" with actionable improvement suggestions
(3) Conversation orchestration with stage-appropriate and vertical-specific questioning,
(4) Progress tracking showing measurable improvement trajectories
(5) Feedback systems trained
1. Almost no company (with very few exceptions, like Google) can secure their systems.
2. A tech industry culture of treating customer data as something to be captured, often secretly, and leveraged, as well as a culture of being "naughty" about bending rules and regulations in general.
If you want to do much better than this, that's awesome.
You're probably aware that the following common measures aren't adequate:
* Corporate compliance checklists, which are done because they're required, or for show, while denying responsibility, and knowing that they are ineffective.
* Making security a marketing brochure checklist item or selling point, but having no idea how to do it better than the abysmal industry practice.
* Projecting confidence.
* Trying to make the customer comfortable, rather than actually securing the data.