Getting accepted onto the Y Combinator accelerator programme is a badge of honour — it ain’t easy to make the cut. Here are some tips to give you the best chances of success in your Y Combinator interview. — Incredibly, the total value of the top businesses accelerated by Y Combinator surpassed $300 billion in early 2021 (Medium 2021). Y Combinator’s efforts have helped create 60,000+ jobs, and over 125 of the companies they’ve supported are valued at $150 million or more.

During the COVID pandemic, Uplevel decided to trial a 4 day work week. Specifically, a 32hr week with no drop in salary! We caught up with them to see how they are getting on. — At some point, people started believing that working at a startup meant 10-hour-plus days, endless meetings, and constant stress. The famous fast pace became grueling, hours became tied to success, and companies placed less and less value on the individual. Yeah, the perks were cool, but the burnout was not.

Getting a job at Block (formerly known as Square) is no mean feat. In your interview, you can expect the interviewer to ask “why you want to work there”. Here are our top tips on answering this question. — Founded by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey and finance tycoon Jim McKelvey in 2009, Square — now Block Inc — is paving the way for digital transactions in our modern world. Square has transformed the way local businesses take payments — connecting a truly cashless society together. As the world’s leading…

We caught up with Halftone Digital to hear about their switch to a shorter working week. How they did it, how it’s going and what’s in store for the future! — In 2022, Halftone Digital, a Design agency based in Minneapolis, decided to switch to a 4 day work week. A 4 day week with 10 hour shifts you ask? No! A 20% drop in salary? Also no! …

Writing a job description is never easy. Here are our tips to create a pitch perfect Sales and Marketing Job Description for your next role. Oh and we’ve also included some examples. — Want to write a great job description for your new sales and marketing role, but don’t know how to start? As a job platform for 4 day week jobs, we understand how a perfectly-crafted job listing can attract the right candidates and eliminate the wrong ones.

Writing job descriptions ain’t easy — get it wrong you could get swamped with irrelevant candidates. In this post we’ll show you how to write a Product Designer Job description and provide you with 2 examples. — At 4 day week, we know the impact a well-crafted product designer job description can have on the success of hiring a product designer. It can help you increase the chances of hiring a product designer who has experience in your niche, believes in your values, and understands the tools…

The final interview at Amazon is called the “Bar Raiser Interview”. This is where someone outside of the hiring team (aka the “Bar Raiser”) asks you a number of questions. Here’s what it involves and how to ace it: — To get hired into a corporate role at Amazon, there is one person you absolutely need to convince. If they are not persuaded, you will not be hired. In the final round, Amazon introduces a trained interviewer from outside the hiring team. They do not have the pressure of the…

In 2016 Californian design agency Cosmic reduced their employees’ hours by 20%, whilst keeping their salaries at 100% in an attempt to improve work-life balance. We caught up with them to see how it’s going. — Cosmic is a Social Impact Creative Agency headquartered in Santa Cruz, California. In 2016 they decided to make the switch to a 4 day work week in order to improve their staff’s work-life balance on their staff.

So you’ve got an interview for a company who uses a Microservices architecture, congrats! Now it’s time to prepare. Here are some example questions on Microservices you could expect to be asked in your next interview. — Microservices are among the most vital components of many modern applications. The vast majority (75%) of firms with over 1,000 employees use microservices. Therefore, as a software developer, the chances that you interview for a firm that asks microservices interview questions are pretty high.