Hatchways YC Application

Summer 2019Active

Hatchways went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2019 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Summer 2019
Industry: B2BRecruiting and Talent
Team size: 8
Status: Active
Launched: 2019

Founders

Shums KassamFounder
Jaclyn LingFounder

What Hatchways does

Easily customize GitHub-based technical assessments, where candidates can complete tasks like reviewing code, submitting a pull request, or improving a system’s design. Hatchways helps you build a state-of-the-art practical interview process that is customized to your role while saving you engineering interview load along the way.

Hatchways's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Hatchways, Summer 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Hatchways

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Engineering interviews that feel like real work

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We build a platform where companies can create customized GitHub-based technical assessments that candidates complete by doing real engineering tasks like submitting pull requests or improving design. Our product replaces abstract coding tests with practical, role-specific interview work that reduces the load on engineering teams.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in Toronto, ON, Canada, and the company will be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We started and built Hatchways in Toronto where our network and early users are. We want to stay here to keep close to our team and initial customers rather than relocating.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Hatchways YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Hatchways's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Hatchways would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.