I would be BEYOND shocked if any decent VC is hiring off cold applications even for basic entry-level positions. In fact, it's almost definitely a bad sign because it means that despite the VC's job being connected to capital, connected to startup people, entrepreneurs, etc -- in other words, their job is to have a huge and valuable network -- and despite these being high paying, prestigious jobs with wealth-creation potential - they have to put up a post soliciting random people to work for them?
Heck even in hedge fund circles there seems to be a meme around how cushy VC jobs are, but how it's very hard to transition into them. (Correct me if I'm wrong, this is my impression from IG hedge fund meme pages).
The role of VC job postings are (1) give a superficial appearance that it's an open process, which is importantly especially for diversity virtue signalling and (2) serve as a public notification to warm connections that there is a job opening up. But trying to get a job at a VC by blind applying will have a low % success rate.
Heck even in hedge fund circles there seems to be a meme around how cushy VC jobs are, but how it's very hard to transition into them. (Correct me if I'm wrong, this is my impression from IG hedge fund meme pages).
The role of VC job postings are (1) give a superficial appearance that it's an open process, which is importantly especially for diversity virtue signalling and (2) serve as a public notification to warm connections that there is a job opening up. But trying to get a job at a VC by blind applying will have a low % success rate.