One reason we got so many applicants is maybe because our compensation feels fair.
If you're saying that AngelList doesn't have those kind of companies, then ok, that's logically consistent. But don't make the mistake of eyeballing ranges based on absolute equity percentages alone.
Almost more important: in the 9 of 10 chance that the company fails, what is being done to maximize the marketability of the staff? YC adds a lot of brand value to "failed" projects. Just one example of how the whole picture needs to be taken into account. If you lose $15K a year taking a haircut, but your next job search sees $30K in extra value from your past experience, how does that add up?
Is AngelList Jobs unknown (never mind a secret!) amongst start up founders (who generally have AngelList profile for both themselves and their companies)?
Is this job board "disrupting" the hiring industry which is composed of other job boards and recruiters that post to other job boards?
If you're familiar with how recruiters work or the general quality and response on job boards, it's hard to characterize it as anything short of disruptive.
I checked Chrome, too; it's clearly less awful but not good.
So long as it focuses on the creme, then it'll disrupt that 'market' but it cannot disrupt the 'hiring industry' because at that point, it would become diluted and another 'disruptor' would cater to the 'cream'.
Seen another way, let's say the top talent is 10,000 individuals. There are way more positions and candidates than that out there. So if they became the Reddit of job boards, they'd have tens (dom)/hundreds (int'l) of millions of applicants in search of tens (dom)/hundreds (int'l) of millions of jobs. Neither the applicants nor jobs are going to become "great" just because they are on the Angellist board.
Salaries are always negotiable, but seeing them up-front gives you a good idea of what the company is looking at paying.
"I emailed everyone I knew, posted the job on LinkedIn, got it posted to the jobs list at several universities, and also posted on some paid sites. End result: nothing very good to show for all the effort."
Exactly how much effort was 'all the effort'? Did it take you all of 2 hours to post the job on several sites?
