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Re: Ask HN: What about a platform for hiring teams instead of individuals?

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Post by classybull »

I've worked at a couple of places where they've hired one key "influencer" manager who then proceeded to recruit half of their old team. It can be good or bad depending on the quality of the team. When its bad, its particularly toxic. Favoritism and cliqueness run rampant. Unqualified people are promoted ahead of qualified people. Eventually, it leads to heavy employee churn.

Its risky. Perhaps if it was a whole team, who didn't need to integrate any existing employees, it could work.

Re: Ask HN: What about a platform for hiring teams instead of individuals?

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Post by johnnyfaehell »

jazoom wrote: post #3
TamDenholm wrote: post #2

Wouldn't that typically be a digital agency?

Permanently and exclusively?

I'm pretty sure if you went to a digital agency and wanted to hire 5 people 40 hours a week and pay the rate they would work for you exclusively until the point you no longer want them to.

Better off is software consultancy groups. They're more used to this set up.

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Post by empty_inside »

I was on a team that tired this - we Formed, Stormed, Normed and Performed at $big_company then all wanted to leave at once after a change in management. We touted ourselves around as a ready-made team and nearly got hired by a couple of places but it didn't happen. A platform where we could have marketed ourselves to a much larger range of companies would have been great.

Re: Ask HN: What about a platform for hiring teams instead of individuals?

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Post by tpae »

Please checkout our startup: https://www.superteam.io/

We're currently accepting closed beta testers. We're a platform designed to create teams with freelancers. Our mission is to make freelancing easy as possible, through team collaboration and specialization.

Re: Ask HN: What about a platform for hiring teams instead of individuals?

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Post by andrewflnr »

fecak wrote: post #14

I've almost hired full teams for my clients a few times as a recruiter. There tend to be a couple issues with this model. For one, what if the hiring company interviews the team and wants 7 of the 10? The team has to make a decision to either look for work where they can all be on the team, or abandon members. The other issue is timing. The team members need to all be available at (or around) the same time, and they…

  For one, what if the hiring company interviews the
  team and wants 7 of the 10?
In the model OP is talking about, that's not allowed. You either hire the whole team or none of them. The team knows this, so they're mostly not going to be running off to look at unrelated offers.

Re: Ask HN: What about a platform for hiring teams instead of individuals?

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Post by TallGuyShort »

fecak wrote: post #14

I've almost hired full teams for my clients a few times as a recruiter. There tend to be a couple issues with this model. For one, what if the hiring company interviews the team and wants 7 of the 10? The team has to make a decision to either look for work where they can all be on the team, or abandon members. The other issue is timing. The team members need to all be available at (or around) the same time, and they…

>> a company might pay each member a bit more for a team experienced in working together, as in theory they should be more productive more quickly.

On the other hand, if you already have an established team, merging them when they see themselves as distinct groups might be tough.

The other issue I see is that I doubt companies will want this to become common in the industry. Even if it's great for hiring (and I think it often would be - especially for new projects), do you want support something that might encourage a group of all the employees in a particular specialization to band together and decide they want to all leave at once? I wouldn't. Especially since that might happen right at the time when new development is slowing down and deep knowledge about the current system is the most valuable asset related to the project.

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