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		ggonweb on March 20, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA Does more than 1 partner review an application? and how do you maintain quality in screening applications and interview teams? Is recommendations from current partners have weight-age in the screening process (from instacart application hack)?

sama on March 20, 2015 | [–]

Yes, in general about 3 partners, sometimes many more. We are very rigorous about maintaining quality and compute lots of statistics on this.

ggonweb on March 20, 2015 | [–]

How much weightage does hackernews involvement add to the application (PG used to say he had some weightage)?

sama on March 20, 2015 | [–]

Very little.

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