Interviewing for a Startup Be Like

[@nicholast]

Mbrlla: Uber for umbrellas

[@darceysinclair8929]

lmao CEO "Nic Oils" almost coughed the smoke out my nose when i peeped

[@rollermixmax]

@@darceysinclair8929 Knic.

[@stefanblandin]

10 years down the line: "Carzip: Mbrlla for cars"

[@anees_ahmad_pazhayidath]

😄 Why not "uberlla" then ?

[@ayeansh]

Hmmbrella: umbrellas made easier... Hmmm...

[@cassiexu1894]

Just left a startup, and all the sayings in this video, "leverage machine learning", "revolutionize", the non-tech CEO trying to show off some CS knowledge, are all so god damn accurate.

[@nicholast]

haha classic startup things

[@connorsmiley2294]

My boss has yelled at me 10 times in the past two months because I refuse to use *machine learning* to improve our robot's path generation algorithm (which is glorified A*). Tomorrow is my last day ;)

[@yournemesis8232]

truueee

[@bodu5468]

You guys trying to work at a blockchain startup or nah?

[@zimingyang8748]

@@connorsmiley2294 how was it going

[@thomasshaw7983]

"Is this another rejection email" is literally my default response when I hear my phone vibrate lol

[@nicholast]

gotta keep expectations low so you'll be pleasantly surprised

[@breadfastcereal8201]

you guys get rejection emails?

[@crazymonkey60123]

@@breadfastcereal8201 oof

[@brookephase]

you guys get emails?

[@djtjpain]

@breadfast cereal 1/10 places or so are kind enough to reject me.

[@zolisawelani9338]

"Revolutionize", "Disruptive". "Business Development Stage" , "Rock star intern" ...so funny

[@nicholast]

Keywords 👌 👌

[@infiniteloop71]

All translate to. "We need you to work for free, mkay?"

[@koolkidz9193]

Those are red flags to run away.

[@mandy_b]

And "Biiiiiiig Data", "Wear many hats" ...lmaooo

[@hil449]

@@mandy_b don't forget machine learning and artificial intelligence

[@mikesaddi]

You should pitch a startup called NTERN. They are going to disrupt the industry by paying interns

[@AkshatSinghania]

there is a company like already :O

[@c0dii837]

😂😂😂

[@Grivian]

Paying interns in other companies, not their own

[@Brian-fr6fv]

Lmao I laughed so hard at “... I’m knic, spelled k n i c... innovative, right?”

[@nettw4703]

Lmao took me off guard 🤣

[@chenadron5775]

The startup that I once applied for had FOUR rounds of interviews, one behavioral, one technical, and one 30-min proposal presentation and one panel interview ... I nailed it after so much preparation. And guess what? They told me in the end that it was unpaid and justified it by saying things like "But you will gain a lot of valuable experience blah blah blah". Fortunately, I got another offer from a pharmaceutical company that had two rounds of interviews and had good salary imo. Man startup these days really think they are big tech giants huh.

[@Lordecai]

Sorry you had to go through that. Must've sucked so much to have them play you like that.

[@AkshatSinghania]

yeah like interns just fresh out of learning stuff could barely write code for scale , how can you expect for them carry the company like hire a lead engineer first and raise money smh

[@joeyawiki3315]

Man working in pharma company is the best. They care about us more than normal tech company

[@DiamondFlame45]

@@AkshatSinghania The issue is they have to convince senior level engineers to work at a start up.

[@AkshatSinghania]

@@DiamondFlame45 Understandtable tbh , but there are lot of very experienced senior engineers who have no problem working in a startup but the pay is very less , so its on the founders hand to raise money to hire employees i think

[@ihtasham9237]

the big time rush song at the end never misses LMAO

[@nicholast]

iconic song

[@itzyoung]

@@nicholast The reason we all stick to the end :)

[@nicholast]

ayyyyy 🤘🤘

[@JacobKinsley]

"were using blockchain, cloud computing, and machine learning to revolutionise the industry! So just to confirm, is it the blockchain engineer, the cloud engineer, or the machine learning engineer role that you're applying for?"

[@nicholast]

the rockstar intern will be wearing all those hats!

[@RiteshNEVERUNIFORM]

I can't tell you hiw much I can relate. I was interviewed for an Unpaid internship who wrote in their application description that its paid. They were so confident and wanted a top notch guy that stands out to work for free for them. I boil up when I find these kind of "start up internship"

[@nicholast]

Oof that sucks :(

[@glamglam8347]

Unpaid internships are volunteer work. If you aint paying me then dont ask for skills and experience. 🙄🙄🙄

[@extropiantranshuman]

hey that's better than the gaslight interview that I had - I printed out the job description only for them to say it's no longer valid. I went from being qualified to overqualified in the middle of the interview - because they changed the job description on the website mid-interview! They gave me a tour of their facility - how nice 🙄🙄🙄I didn't get the job. Wasn't even a startup - can't win anywhere.

[@junaidrajah5846]

Holy smokes I had the exact same kind of interview, had to build everything from scratch went from an intern to cto in 4 months and left with a badge on my cv, needless to say the startup is now no more

[@nicholast]

😳😳

[@MyStockz]

pfft...damn!

[@blackboxbs8642]

Serious?

[@timobecker7540]

That honestly has the same vibe as the tinder entrepreneurs writing CEO as jok description in their bio

[@yuhyi0122]

Wow seriously?

[@masaruuchiha]

Played enough Resident Evil to know how Umbrella employees are treated/'paid' :p

[@numberiforgot]

The only interview I ever did for a startup company was exactly like this. This was spot on

[@jayadas8912]

My first "internship" after college, I was the employee[0], the CEO was terrible

[@nicholast]

😳 yikes

[@Chris-xr6gg]

index out of range

[@obliteratedcisco4709]

@Jaya Das Not to be rude or anything but the colour of your forehead does'nt match your face 😑

[@jayadas8912]

@@obliteratedcisco4709 AHAHA it's impressive you noticed that. Besides the CEO, my camera was terrible too.

[@xeon39688]

@@jayadas8912 least you got to flex that you carried the whole team

[@richg-insights]

My first coding job was a startup. The app had been built by an intern who was let go abruptly so I took over everything. Shipped the app by myself (with one backend guy who was CTO) in 3-4 months. No designer no QA or product manager. I learned a ton and got a job at a big corporation after 6 months. Highly stressful but was the only way I could break into the industry as someone self taught.

[@DarkGT]

That's so unrealistic, most of the time you don't even get email rejecting you.

[@noobpur]

Ikr

[@liveanotheranime3526]

One year later. Application Status: Pending Application Status: Under Review

[@yuhyi0122]

Yep🤣

[@zerometers]

that emphasis on “revolutionalize” got me 😂😂 keep up the videos - these are awesome

[@nicholast]

haha glad you like them :)

[@AlexisPaques]

That is exactly how my first experience of a startup was, without everything explained.

[@nicholast]

Yikes that doesn’t sound too great. Hope you got to learn lots of stuff tho!

[@edwardyang881]

I love how all the buzzwords are thrown around by the interviewer, this video is hilarious😂

[@nicholast]

heavy use of buzzwords is key to a startup's success

[@HiMyNameWaffy]

"You get to wear many hats!" (but we'll give you a non-competitive salary). Where have I heard this before >_>

[@nukiradio]

AmaFaceGoog-azon

[@volodyanarchist]

@@nukiradio "On AmaFaceGoog" This is how Google translated your comment to English. Where is the Zon suffix? Did they make "on" from it?

[@hil449]

Amazon is the only that doesn't pay interns well, at least in my country. Meta and Google pay well

[@rainynight4662]

For my first internship, Thats exactly what my interviewer(CEO) told me in the interview lmao. I was Employee 0, and he didn't bother trying hiring another one after I joined. I got to design, implement and test his cross platform mobile app and internal admin system. Apart from the pay I really learned a-lot over the year hahhha

[@datle5503]

That must have been rough for you

[@stubbsrulez99]

The "so that's how you say it" got me. I've had that thought a few times in interviews.

[@williamwang2240]

Dude you're hilarious keep it up

[@nicholast]

thanks, appreciate it :)

[@dimaisatree]

Honestly, I wouldn’t mind working for a startup company. If all goes well and the company blows up, you could be making millions. But then again, the chances of that happening is pretty low considering most companies die out within 2 years

[@staticmind1872]

Yeah but working for free? My guy do you not have bills?

[@tradersendeavors]

@@staticmind1872 My bills are paid by crypto

[@badmapper4101]

@@tradersendeavors oh god I’m so sorry

[@karatekid8312]

@@tradersendeavors 🤓

[@AlexRenlowkey]

bro this is so accurate! The tech crunch ending reminds of Silicon Valley vibes!

[@nicholast]

Haha thanks Alex! Your vids are hilarious 😂

[@AlexRenlowkey]

@@nicholast thank you my man! Right back at you!

[@NapsAndNoodles]

I work in biotech manufacturing, and this was so accurate I felt it from multiple industries away. Ow.

[@nicholast]

😂😂

[@carlosmoreno9987]

I was working as a junior dev at a company when they were looking at being the first real production company to use Xamarin. One of my former classmates worked at Xamarin and mentioned I should apply and I thought, "yeah it's neat, but this cross-platform stuff never really goes anywhere". Fast forward a couple years and they got bought by Microsoft, my former classmate seems to have gotten a payday and now works for Microsoft and I'm sitting here like a jackass being reminded of it by the last 5 seconds of this video.

[@jc-xo8yd]

Unfortunately throughout life well have regrets, unless you're lucky

[@hil449]

You can always just apply to Microsoft man

[@shikharsharma6403]

I literally felt that “There’s another rejection email” thing as soon as I saw the scene. Brought out the personal experience of me.

[@DiamondFlame45]

I interviewed for the 1st time with a start up yesterday and it was a surreal experience! The CTO and Marketing Director were inundating me with information about their product! It felt like drinking off a fire hose! It didn’t help that they spoke in that corporate executive level speed. You could sense the urgency because their product was to be released in 2 months. I don’t know if I will get the role but I am glad that I had the experience. It makes you appreciate the slower pace and structure of medium to larger companies.

[@quack7173]

only 17k subs and such good quality, keep it up man

[@nicholast]

thanks, really appreciate it :) 17k subs is lowkey a lot already tho LOL

[@davidioTheKing]

I love the fact that Nicholas' subs skyrocketed within the last month lmao :D KZbin algorithm praised him. Keep up the nice videos 👌

[@nicholast]

@@davidioTheKing thank the yt algo🙏

[@davidioTheKing]

@@nicholast Btw I just stumbled on a video from Tom Scott and I think the comments might be helpful for you because they adress the challenges when you gain fast popularity through the algo: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b329do1rhtqssK8 Maybe you can get something out of it, just an idea bc I had to remember your channel when I saw those.

[@nicholast]

@@davidioTheKing ooh that was an interesting vid, thanks for sharing!

[@natashajchen]

0:58 the best pitch deck 🤩 I'm 100% sold

[@nicholast]

it's the rocket and stonks background that makes it so compelling 🚀📈

[@alexblack4684]

I thought he was teaching us how to be aware of red flags :)

[@nicholast]

👀

[@Chironex_Fleckeri]

As a lean startup, we're in the fuzzy front end of the innovation pipeline. Platitudes. Let's touch base soon.

[@mecharenastuff]

I just keep it simple. If I see a video from Nick, I watch the entire ad and click the like button. Nicholas is awesome ❤️

[@nicholast]

AYY LETS GOO, APPRECIATE IT ❤️

[@nukiradio]

My interviews: "What is the difference between a thread and a process" Me: gives them the exact definition off the top of my head... "Wow... that was actually, exactly the answer I was looking for! Do you have any skills?" Yeah, know c++, java, python, html, 3d modeling, graphic design.. "Great skillset, perfect. Would you be willing to relocate?" Sure "Okay, we'll keep in touch". 2 weeks later in an emal: "We regret to inform you that we found someone more suited to this position"

[@ade8890]

Sometimes good applicants are rejected for great applicants.

[@eachone9220]

Lots of cracked ppl out there man

[@noahhkun5097]

This just felt like an awkward flex to read

[@ade8890]

@@noahhkun5097 Not the best of flexes either haha. Should probably qualify the statement that he sounds like a good applicant only in the context of not having industry experience. So if I was interviewing people who recently graduated college I would think that to be a good applicant. But to be a great SWE, there's so much more to it than just knowing a couple languages.

[@noahhkun5097]

@@ade8890 yeah honestly all of it is knowledge anyone should know coming into CS at Uni level let alone leaving Uni, although good for them ig

[@CaptainCookie1572]

A really hilarious video man! Plus I really loved the sarcastic smile at 1:51!

[@nicholast]

thanks!!

[@patricksmith6680]

Funny story: I worked for a startup game development company for about a year, and they literally had no idea what they were doing. They didn't know anything about the game development cycle, they asked us to do the work that they should have done long ago, they split up the team so there was communication problems all the time, and they were always making dumb design choices that they thought were "cool" rather than sensible or player-friendly. It literally was so bad, I quit because I was going crazy at everything they were doing wrong. Two years later, I get an email that a book attached to the game has won not one, but two awards. And as I read the email, in the back of my head, I could hear Big Time Rush playing.

[@nicholast]

haha thats pretty funny but i think leaving was a good choice

[@somedudes6455]

What was the company, what was the game?

[@scalet1749]

Ubisoft ? Is that you ?

[@Ced3kGama]

I've seen that a few times already. On the last one, I asked who else would be working fulltime on the project and there was nobody since they were all working elsewhere.

[@IQUBE]

"ah so that's how you spell it!" istg these startup names-

[@peterchou1491]

Worked for 3 companies as an intern the worst experience I had was working for a startup. On the first day of the job the only dev left and I was left to take care of the entire application.

[@nicholast]

yikes, how'd it end up going?

[@28bits20]

You earned my sub. Painfully hilarious.

[@nicholast]

thanks for subbing :)

[@08DARKRAGE80]

"Mbrella pitch dock" 🤣 I would leave the call immediately ...

[@strategy_gal]

Nice skit! Well done, Nicholas! Enjoyed it. Uber for umbrellas :)

[@nicholast]

thanks, glad you enjoyed it :)

[@MrLordZenki]

Omg the fkin graphic for the pitch deck made me laugh so hard I instantly subscribed

[@nicholast]

haha thanks for subbing and glad you liked it :)

[@kibe2134]

As someone who's currently unemployed I can tell that this is accurate. Edit: I'm not unemployed anymore. Yay

[@DavidCruz-hb7ui]

Hi Nicholas! Your video was super funny and it made me laugh so many times. Keep up the excellent work

[@nicholast]

thank you, appreciate it :)

[@vocdex]

Employee 0, see what I did there? I took a CS course in college, haha

[@ajnart_]

A dude actually hit me up and asked me to be paid in equity to work for him in his startup: UberEats but for grocery shopping. You pay someone to do your grocery shopping instead of you!! - I asked him why not directly order the food online and make the shops deliver it, and he was annoyed, x)

[@LightningWrath]

umm that's Instacart, which was founded in 2012.

[@nicholast]

lol when did that guy start his startup? grocery delivery services have been around for quite a while and you can even buy groceries THROUGH ubereats now LOL

[@deepaksrinivasan123]

Gave a similar interview two days back. This is extremely accurate

[@moonbalancedd]

I'm a senior engineer and I physically get a stomachache when I hear 'revolutionize the way we', blockchain, big data.

[@TrooperJet]

That's why I either make own startups or join such that CEO is actually a senior level engineer (or very talented technically and young).

[@SansidarUploads]

This is painfully accurate. I've been trying to find a decent job for like the last year, but being fresh out of university in the middle of a pandemic has made it a hopeless endeavour. I applied for a job which some dude called me on the phone and just went on a 10 minute rant about the company and that was literally it. Didn't really ask me anything. Just a rant, then he hang up and I never heard from him again LOL.

[@maganhassan2627]

Bruh.....hope you found something or still find the job you want lol I am struggling in finding a new job for a few years now this isn't easy

[@kjk4795]

@@maganhassan2627 for years ? No way bro

[@maganhassan2627]

@@kjk4795 I don't want to talk about it so much here but just to answer your question because I don't want people to think wrong stuff about me I have been unemployed for 4 years now this is not easy for me especially to stay motivated to do this heck even to bulid my future life not just about having a career lol

[@hil449]

@@maganhassan2627 jeez man, go to college or start a masters, at least it's better than staying unemployed and you can apply for internships

[@maganhassan2627]

@@hil449 1. dude...I tried to apply for internships before especially after finishing my initial 1 but haven't been successful heck I tried to apply for a no. Of entry level jobs which again I didn't get them then I got to the point where I really lost motivation to do anything with my life basically lol you see? 2. Don't want to go back to uni again & is doing masters REALLY the best option where there's a chance I may STILL be unemployed after that? I thought about this for a long time & STILL feel that getting more work experience is more important

[@allforu3926]

omg this is literally how I got my first internship lol and I can guarantee that this video is is 1000000% accurate. But luckily my CEO had a clear vision and worked really hard, and the company's goal aligned with my interests, so I really enjoyed working there although I was getting unpaid. Thanks to this experience, I ended up having an awesome second internship this summer!(and will be paid well too lol) BUT I wouldn't recommend other rookies to follow my path because not everyone can work without getting paid for the whole summer.

[@sin3358]

If you're a student who's being financed by your parents, it doesn't seem like the worst desicion tbh. But it can be such a waste of time 99% of the time

[@hoangnguyenvuhuy5535]

I paid my brother so he can not worry about landing a paid internship, just learning will suffice

[@ekenedilichukwuekeh4647]

The end song was Big Time Rush's theme song... Nice touch👌🏾 also hilarious 😂

[@lucaspasicinic8897]

this is frighteningly accurate

[@Pour_La_Victoire]

Screen sharing without the presentation being in full-screen present mode is scarily accurate...

[@mjohnson510]

Love how realistic this shit is lol

[@Sunny-zh6go]

Accurate stuff. In January I worked at a place as intern who wanted to merge several well established products like notion, editorjs plus more into one from scratch. He didn't even go to engineering college, i was the one doing all stuff. Left after 15 days

[@Sunny-zh6go]

Ofcourse minus the last part

[@nicholast]

oof that's tough, at least you got out early

[@phoneix24886]

I swear this is exactly how startup interviews are!

[@sebipoiana1768]

This is so close to reality that you have no idea! There are employers who post a job ad and never even mention until the interview that its unpaid, by leaving the payment tab as unfilled intentionally.

[@YoungOorah]

lol been watching some of these guys videos and can say theyre pretty funny. Shows you the amount of fuckery you encounter in this field.

[@sleep8765]

Its funny because it literally happened to me about a month ago (minus the whole *actually becomes successful*). I really don't know what these startups are thinking

[@evaguelis9160]

Hello! Entrepreneur here. Most of them are misguided, first-time entrepreneurs. It was hilariously accurate though.

[@webserververse5749]

If you saw the flaws of the start up in this skit then you are exactly what we are looking for. WSV Enterprises (new startup just last week) are looking for an intern to spear head our marketing and development strategies. We don't have the business registered just ye nor do we have any funding or ideas on how to obtain said funding. But that is where you come in. You will be payed in company equity and be a co owner with 10% ownership if you stay with us for the next 10 years. Hit me up for more details!

[@floguo]

the best tech student life channel NO CAP 🤭

[@nicholast]

thanks flora :)

[@0iqyas489]

LOL I thought beginning was reference to joma tech

[@nicholast]

LOOL i was hoping someone would catch that

[@SJHunter86]

This was an actual startup in NYC, for the record.

[@sorcdk2880]

Paying with equity, being the first one to build the stuff super early. This sounds more like someone fishing for a tech partner than someone hiring an intern. They are likely doing a kind of positive bait and switch, trying to fish out new young people that have a risk tolerant time due to not planning for income early on. The trick here is in the negotiation part, where you need to realise that you have a lot more power than you normally would in an intern position.

[@anushkatilekar5216]

@1:02 That "Big data" hand gesture though 😂😂😂😂.....

[@p_bucket]

Unrealistic, a real startup interview would never expose all the red flags right away.

[@blankblankity451]

Mbrlla doesn't sound like a half bad place to start with merch actually

[@nang88]

ill handle the business side

[@nicholast]

📈📈

[@CosmicApe]

Spelled "k n i c" LOL, your wit is underrated.

[@zenhorace]

Dude! you're absolutely hilarious! I love it! If you don't go fulltime into comedy I'll give u a google referral if you're interested

[@nicholast]

hahaha thanks, really appreciate it :) don't think i'm funny enough to do this type of stuff fulltime tho

[@RockyRanjan]

So accurate, I interviewed for Razorpay and Swiggy in 2015-16. They are kinda unicorns now

[@GuRuGeorge03]

startups that just recently got a big investment are even worse, because they will waaaaay overpay u and then go bankrupt a year or 2 later and then u are forced into getting a "real" job that pays less

[@nicholast]

well at least you'll be making bank while you're there💰💰

[@ezepheros5028]

How is that worse? You’re literally saying they will pay you so much that a normal job somewhere else will be a disappointment

[@JacobKinsley]

@@ezepheros5028 probably that delusional grind mindset shit

[@JacobKinsley]

This was me with a company that did cloud gaming and wanted big gaming rigs all over the UK (starting where i live) that you could connect to with a subscription. I never applied because it seemed a bit dodgy but they literally wanted a network engineer for about £80k a year. I shit you not, they didn't even have a network engineer yet and their whole thing was on cloud gaming. Why they decided to do that while graphics cards were at an all time high is beyond me, it could have been a front for a scalper to buy a bunch of graphics cards with a bank loan now that I think about it.

[@oreh350]

I really enjoyed the presentation with 1 screen at 1:00.

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

"Disrupt" just means "rock up late and copy a little bit from each of your competitors to create an inferior product offering than all of them". And the buzzphrase "building out" just gives me PTSD. "Greenfield" is another common one used in the UK.

[@triton6771]

This was literally exactly how my interview with an Indian start up went last month 😂😂😭

[@TigreDemon]

I didn't heard agile development, I'm confused, is this not agile ?

[@Ebun321]

Working for a startup was the worst decision of my life 😭

[@jeremythegamer8080]

Really relate to my first internship. I'm the only engineer at startup

[@neketsh4]

I was on this kind of startup after a year it was under development from such an intern. It was a lagging mess and another dev was like "I donno what is MVVM, you can do it as you like here" :)

[@SuperStarTidus18]

You forgot the rejection email one year later

[@ryhanmortuza]

Employee 0 is a great job title to have on a resume

[@nicholast]

😎😎

[@prothoraxe]

There is actually businesses in Japan that have the same business model in case somebody thinks it's a joke.

[@shatmanyugupta]

Is this is another rejection mail,So damn accurate!!

[@sugarabroad]

lol I like it I can really relate my experience to this video. To the moooooon!

[@ThePointlessBox_]

Oh actual umbrellas I thought I’d be working on viruses

[@RobertOSullivan]

The intern they did hire rigged their umbrella blood testing machine to roll down the hill all by itself. Stonks rule!

[@err_kk]

Oh, ok. Soo glad I'm not alone on this.

[@245amour]

I would just hang up if they told me I wasn’t getting paid

[@dude92]

I immediately scroll when I see "rockstar" or "ninja" or "blockchain" or "fruit day" or "playstation/xbox" or "foosball" or "competitive salary" in a job description. It's like "yeah, you get a competitive salary, that competes with the local McDonalds hourly wages, but at least you can have some fruit and play ps/xbox/foosball strictly after work". Man, I have a PS at home and I just want to know the goddamn salary interval. I guess after 7 years of working as a developer, I only care about money and a calm work environment without pointless meetings.

[@CFEF44AB1399978B0011]

Everything about it was great. But instead of paying him in equity, you should have paid him an umbrella coin. The new Uber for umbrellas blockchain coin that's going to be used for all transactions and umbrellas!

[@AkshatSinghania]

2:46 actually a startup i rejected to work with became a multimillion dollar company last year D:

[@AkshatSinghania]

I heard about it in a hackathon

[@pitzboechannel]

Oh shit I’m a startup founder and I’m literally the guy interviewing

[@franciscofuentes8916]

I remember an interview with a guy who wanted to revolutionize the market of parking lots but they didn't have s lot of money to pay a decent salary

[@newdaysamepains]

Holy shit this is exactly how it went.

[@sevenaries]

“Succulent Capital” I can’t 😂

[@nicholast]

I think you’re the first to notice that

[@sevenaries]

@@nicholast honoured! It’s pretty cool to see a fellow Waterloo student making vids like these :)

[@keifer7813]

Love the endings lmao why does it sound familiar 🤔

[@ritviksapra1368]

I did an internship at a start up in my college. They promised to pay but didn't. Instead they offered me to become Director....of a 2 people company and no revenue -_-

[@nicholast]

Yikes 😳

[@Pherecydes]

Looks like they found that rockstar intern to build them their MVP.