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

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This is an anti-capitalistic proposition. The companies don't want strong bond between employees. The simple idea that employees could have stronger bonds between themselves than for their benevolent company is utter anti-capitalistic. Everyone is responsible just for themselves in a rat race competition. We are just individuals. Unions are bad. Organization is bad. Agglomerations are bad. Move on.

What? Really? You must have had a pretty sad career.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been studying this whole Team as a Service approach to offering consulting services for my software consulting company. It's interesting, and something I'm going to explore as I like the idea of a customer hiring a subset of my team as they're already optimised working with one another. As you quite rightly point out this is a long way away from OPs original vision.

This is the way the big guys (Accenture, TCS, etc) went a few years back. Keep that in mind as you try this -- the further you go down this route, the more the market pressures will force you into an offshore sweatshop model. A lot of product design shops have gone to more of an agency model, which makes sense here too. It actually works pretty well as long as you realize that the "accounting" works differently offsh…

I totally see the upside of taking an Accenture et al approach but I can't stomach the offshore sweatshop model. In the early days I tried offshore and the quality simply isn't there. I can't sacrifice the quality of what we put out just to make more £££'s.

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

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A company called Elevator is trying to do that. From https://goelevator.com/ : > The world’s first team hiring platform. > Assemble your best colleagues today and start receiving full-time or freelance team jobs.

I have tried elevator and found it utterly unusable. I gave some detailed feedback in an email a while back but as it stands, it doesn't even do the basic things it says it does.

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

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Hiring a team is often the basis for buying and selling consulting services. The premium that consultants charge is often based on the value of having assembled a team with specific expertise. The other way teams are bought and sold is via the outright purchase of companies. It is hard to see why and how a functioning and talented team would be assembled outside those circumstances. I mean a team built to sell sugges…

I've been studying this whole Team as a Service approach to offering consulting services for my software consulting company. It's interesting, and something I'm going to explore as I like the idea of a customer hiring a subset of my team as they're already optimised working with one another. As you quite rightly point out this is a long way away from OPs original vision.

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

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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…

I work at acompany where we usually work as team for several customers. They all have problems that need to be solved. We have an intact team witch broad knowledge and specialized expertise with each team member. Some times we work closely with other "natuve" workers, sometimes on our own. For each project one at our side is responsible for project management and communication. Doing this we are able to do multiple projects simultaniously as we work from remote and meet with skype or whatever. If needed we do onsite workshops. Some customers disn't know that model and had been skeptic about it, but the most are happy because they are wery flexible, for example if the project will be paused for a short while.

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

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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…

>how to categorize teams and/or individuals

+ web design team name

| team member name | Role |

--

team member 1 - developer

team member 2 - creative director

team member 3 - designer

team member 4 - designer

team member 5 - production artist

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

#150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for pointing out that we’re already doing this at Elevator. I’m the CEO - AMA.

Where are most of your roles located?

We have teams from all over and try to find the best for them. Our current focus is in San Francisco and Seattle, and are helping a handful of teams and companies throughout the U.S. and neighbors.
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