On: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)

[kmdupree]

Avantos.ai | Frontend Eng | Full-time | Remote (USA)

Series A AI Fintech Startup headquartered in NYC. If you’re outside of NYC, we'd like you to make quarterly visits and are happy to support higher-frequency visits.

You'll get a sense of what we're building during the coding challenge, which you can start by sending a POST request to:

https://apply-to-avantos.dev-sandbox.workload.avantos-ai.net

Payload should be this:

{"email": "<your-email>"}

You'll need to make sure the user agent isn't something too bot-seeming or WAF will block you. (Sorry we're a startup no time to fix.) This user agent works: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

[andjd → kmdupree]

Hi Matt,

Asking for a take-home challenge is a big ask without any form of human interaction first. Are you open to me asking a few questions over email or a video chat so I can gauge if your company would be a good fit for me?

[philshem → andjd]

    curl -X POST "https://apply-to-avantos.dev-sandbox.workload.avantos-ai.net" \
      -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" \
      -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
      -d '{"email": "<your-email>"}'

[nsinghal12 → philshem]

whats with this..what was the response of this..what are you trying to say here?

[chainbythe11 → kmdupree]

weird experience, no feedback, no responses, just a rejection letter after you complete a task for them. Feels like a free labor for their company

[freezebook589 → kmdupree]

spent several hours on their task just to be denied without any feedback or communication

[phillipharris → kmdupree]

The responses to the POST thing illustrate why it's a good filter :)