Mbrlla: Uber for umbrellas

Just left a startup, and all the sayings in this video, "leverage machine learning", "revolutionize", the non-tech CEO trying to show off some CS knowledge, are all so god damn accurate.

"Revolutionize", "Disruptive". "Business Development Stage" , "Rock star intern" ...so funny

"Is this another rejection email" is literally my default response when I hear my phone vibrate lol

You should pitch a startup called NTERN. They are going to disrupt the industry by paying interns

Lmao I laughed so hard at “... I’m knic, spelled k n i c... innovative, right?”

The startup that I once applied for had FOUR rounds of interviews, one behavioral, one technical, and one 30-min proposal presentation and one panel interview ... I nailed it after so much preparation. And guess what? They told me in the end that it was unpaid and justified it by saying things like "But you will gain a lot of valuable experience blah blah blah". Fortunately, I got another offer from a pharmaceutical company that had two rounds of interviews and had good salary imo. Man startup these days really think they are big tech giants huh.

"were using blockchain, cloud computing, and machine learning to revolutionise the industry! So just to confirm, is it the blockchain engineer, the cloud engineer, or the machine learning engineer role that you're applying for?"

the big time rush song at the end never misses LMAO

My first "internship" after college, I was the employee[0], the CEO was terrible

That's so unrealistic, most of the time you don't even get email rejecting you.

Holy smokes I had the exact same kind of interview, had to build everything from scratch went from an intern to cto in 4 months and left with a badge on my cv, needless to say the startup is now no more

I can't tell you hiw much I can relate. I was interviewed for an Unpaid internship who wrote in their application description that its paid. They were so confident and wanted a top notch guy that stands out to work for free for them. I boil up when I find these kind of "start up internship"

My first coding job was a startup. The app had been built by an intern who was let go abruptly so I took over everything. Shipped the app by myself (with one backend guy who was CTO) in 3-4 months. No designer no QA or product manager. I learned a ton and got a job at a big corporation after 6 months. Highly stressful but was the only way I could break into the industry as someone self taught.

The only interview I ever did for a startup company was exactly like this. This was spot on

Played enough Resident Evil to know how Umbrella employees are treated/'paid' :p

I love how all the buzzwords are thrown around by the interviewer, this video is hilarious😂

that emphasis on “revolutionalize” got me 😂😂 keep up the videos - these are awesome

The "so that's how you say it" got me. I've had that thought a few times in interviews.

That is exactly how my first experience of a startup was, without everything explained.

"You get to wear many hats!" (but we'll give you a non-competitive salary). Where have I heard this before >_>

For my first internship, Thats exactly what my interviewer(CEO) told me in the interview lmao. I was Employee 0, and he didn't bother trying hiring another one after I joined. I got to design, implement and test his cross platform mobile app and internal admin system. Apart from the pay I really learned a-lot over the year hahhha

Dude you're hilarious keep it up

bro this is so accurate! The tech crunch ending reminds of Silicon Valley vibes!

Honestly, I wouldn’t mind working for a startup company. If all goes well and the company blows up, you could be making millions. But then again, the chances of that happening is pretty low considering most companies die out within 2 years

I literally felt that “There’s another rejection email” thing as soon as I saw the scene. Brought out the personal experience of me.

I work in biotech manufacturing, and this was so accurate I felt it from multiple industries away. Ow.

I was working as a junior dev at a company when they were looking at being the first real production company to use Xamarin. One of my former classmates worked at Xamarin and mentioned I should apply and I thought, "yeah it's neat, but this cross-platform stuff never really goes anywhere". Fast forward a couple years and they got bought by Microsoft, my former classmate seems to have gotten a payday and now works for Microsoft and I'm sitting here like a jackass being reminded of it by the last 5 seconds of this video.

I thought he was teaching us how to be aware of red flags :)

Funny story: I worked for a startup game development company for about a year, and they literally had no idea what they were doing. They didn't know anything about the game development cycle, they asked us to do the work that they should have done long ago, they split up the team so there was communication problems all the time, and they were always making dumb design choices that they thought were "cool" rather than sensible or player-friendly. It literally was so bad, I quit because I was going crazy at everything they were doing wrong. Two years later, I get an email that a book attached to the game has won not one, but two awards. And as I read the email, in the back of my head, I could hear Big Time Rush playing.

I interviewed for the 1st time with a start up yesterday and it was a surreal experience! The CTO and Marketing Director were inundating me with information about their product! It felt like drinking off a fire hose! It didn’t help that they spoke in that corporate executive level speed. You could sense the urgency because their product was to be released in 2 months. I don’t know if I will get the role but I am glad that I had the experience. It makes you appreciate the slower pace and structure of medium to larger companies.

0:58 the best pitch deck 🤩 I'm 100% sold

My interviews: "What is the difference between a thread and a process" Me: gives them the exact definition off the top of my head... "Wow... that was actually, exactly the answer I was looking for! Do you have any skills?" Yeah, know c++, java, python, html, 3d modeling, graphic design.. "Great skillset, perfect. Would you be willing to relocate?" Sure "Okay, we'll keep in touch". 2 weeks later in an emal: "We regret to inform you that we found someone more suited to this position"

only 17k subs and such good quality, keep it up man

I've seen that a few times already. On the last one, I asked who else would be working fulltime on the project and there was nobody since they were all working elsewhere.

A really hilarious video man! Plus I really loved the sarcastic smile at 1:51!

As a lean startup, we're in the fuzzy front end of the innovation pipeline. Platitudes. Let's touch base soon.

I just keep it simple. If I see a video from Nick, I watch the entire ad and click the like button. Nicholas is awesome ❤️

Hi Nicholas! Your video was super funny and it made me laugh so many times. Keep up the excellent work

this is frighteningly accurate

"Mbrella pitch dock" 🤣 I would leave the call immediately ...

"ah so that's how you spell it!" istg these startup names-

Omg the fkin graphic for the pitch deck made me laugh so hard I instantly subscribed

Gave a similar interview two days back. This is extremely accurate

You earned my sub. Painfully hilarious.

Worked for 3 companies as an intern the worst experience I had was working for a startup. On the first day of the job the only dev left and I was left to take care of the entire application.

Nice skit! Well done, Nicholas! Enjoyed it. Uber for umbrellas :)

Screen sharing without the presentation being in full-screen present mode is scarily accurate...

Love how realistic this shit is lol

Haha!! This is great, I love it.

Congrats on your channel growing so quickly!

Yo this is spot on 😂😂

The end song was Big Time Rush's theme song... Nice touch👌🏾 also hilarious 😂

Employee 0, see what I did there? I took a CS course in college, haha

True af lol Loved the content!

That's why I either make own startups or join such that CEO is actually a senior level engineer (or very talented technically and young).

I swear this is exactly how startup interviews are!

Spelled "k n i c" LOL, your wit is underrated.

OMG! I like it! Thanks Nicholas.

lol I like it I can really relate my experience to this video. To the moooooon!

Love your videos dude

A dude actually hit me up and asked me to be paid in equity to work for him in his startup: UberEats but for grocery shopping. You pay someone to do your grocery shopping instead of you!! - I asked him why not directly order the food online and make the shops deliver it, and he was annoyed, x)

I really enjoyed the presentation with 1 screen at 1:00.

I love your videos keep up!

Great channel. Keep it up.

As someone who's currently unemployed I can tell that this is accurate. Edit: I'm not unemployed anymore. Yay

This is so close to reality that you have no idea! There are employers who post a job ad and never even mention until the interview that its unpaid, by leaving the payment tab as unfilled intentionally.

Oh, ok. Soo glad I'm not alone on this.

I'm a senior engineer and I physically get a stomachache when I hear 'revolutionize the way we', blockchain, big data.

This gave me flashbacks.

lol been watching some of these guys videos and can say theyre pretty funny. Shows you the amount of fuckery you encounter in this field.

I didn't heard agile development, I'm confused, is this not agile ?

This is painfully accurate. I've been trying to find a decent job for like the last year, but being fresh out of university in the middle of a pandemic has made it a hopeless endeavour. I applied for a job which some dude called me on the phone and just went on a 10 minute rant about the company and that was literally it. Didn't really ask me anything. Just a rant, then he hang up and I never heard from him again LOL.

That was funny. I laughed out loud at the end.

I remember an interview with a guy who wanted to revolutionize the market of parking lots but they didn't have s lot of money to pay a decent salary

omg this is literally how I got my first internship lol and I can guarantee that this video is is 1000000% accurate. But luckily my CEO had a clear vision and worked really hard, and the company's goal aligned with my interests, so I really enjoyed working there although I was getting unpaid. Thanks to this experience, I ended up having an awesome second internship this summer!(and will be paid well too lol) BUT I wouldn't recommend other rookies to follow my path because not everyone can work without getting paid for the whole summer.

Can’t stop watching it when I am also applying lol

I like the polite smile after the joke.

Accurate stuff. In January I worked at a place as intern who wanted to merge several well established products like notion, editorjs plus more into one from scratch. He didn't even go to engineering college, i was the one doing all stuff. Left after 15 days

The end is soo good lmao

This Channel is too funny.

LOL I thought beginning was reference to joma tech

the pitch deck had me rolling

oh man, love the skits

This was literally exactly how my interview with an Indian start up went last month 😂😂😭

@1:02 That "Big data" hand gesture though 😂😂😂😂.....

I was on this kind of startup after a year it was under development from such an intern. It was a lagging mess and another dev was like "I donno what is MVVM, you can do it as you like here" :)

Love the endings lmao why does it sound familiar 🤔

Its funny because it literally happened to me about a month ago (minus the whole *actually becomes successful*). I really don't know what these startups are thinking

the best tech student life channel NO CAP 🤭

Those hand gestures left me dead.

excelente genio!

Just had exact same interview a few days ago XD

Really relate to my first internship. I'm the only engineer at startup

This was an actual startup in NYC, for the record.

That deck of a beautiful singular slide- how could you say no to that??

Is this is another rejection mail,So damn accurate!!

The Big Time Rush theme always kills me. I feel like the stare, zoom in to the camera would've been perfect to add as in your other videos

the last part😭

😂 this is literally my life (minus the equity crap). I’m at a game dev start up, but they were very transparent with me (no pretentious IT bro jargon).