[obtusifolia]

Could you share a source for that? I checked a couple of their openings (e.g. [1]) and they didn't say anything like that.

[1]: https://kagi.peopleforce.io/careers/v/125936-core-back-end-t...

[ls-a]

They changed the wording on their hiring page at https://help.kagi.com/kagi/company/hiring-kagi.html. Quick look at older snapshots I found it

> Our ambition is enormous, going against industry giants with a very small team. You will work a lot. We are completely user funded. Kagi is currently used by one town worth of people. Do not expect VC backed/big-tech salary. Do expect equity as a part of compensation

[christophilus]

It doesn’t sound good, but maybe they mean it in a more benign way, like, “We don’t have the funds to hire people who expect to twiddle their thumbs and get paid for it the way their over-funded VC peers do.”

In other words, maybe they’re saying they don’t have any BS jobs like Meta and Google seem to have.

[deng]

"ruthless communication habits" tells you all you need to know, and this is exactly why you'd put something like this into your job ad.

[dewey]

This could mean many different things. Like communicating well, documenting things to what you are probably assuming: answering your messages 24 hours a day instantly.

I doubt you can get a feeling for the work / life balance from this half sentence.

[zombiwoof]

they literally pay less than you could make working at Home Depot