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

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

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Post by seangrogg »

So the concept is that this solution would make it:

* easier to hire multiple individuals

* worry less about their "team-building" struggles

While I haven't been in the freelance hiring scene for a while, I think this could be useful. That being said, you should really sell me on abstracting me away from the parts and selling me the whole.

I should be reaching out to a "team" with a project and a price. Once accepted, I expect that they'll manage all of their own resources accordingly. If my project means two of their team members are useless the onus is on them to handle their dead weight. If I pay the team I am paying an individual entity - they handle their own payroll. And so on.

At no point should I feel like I am just hiring some freelancers who just so happen to be buddies. I should feel like I am hiring a gestalt of parallelized human effort.

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

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Post by fecak »

andrewflnr wrote: post #136
fecak wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks, but I'm not sure I understand your comment. Where does it say anything about the rules of this proposed idea? Isn't this a hypothetical?

It's a hypothetical that's only meaningful at all if it's an all-or-nothing deal. If it was anything else, it would essentially just be normal hiring and therefore boring.

Understood, but I also would think finding an 'all-or-nothing' deal for a team of any real size would be somewhat unique at that point. If you have a team of 10, and all 10 are required to come along, there is likely some chance of redundancy unless we're talking about pure greenfield projects and buyers with no staff.

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

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Post by xiaoma »

absolutarin wrote: post #127
xiaoma wrote: post #126

I did have two acquaintances from long ago when I was a humanities major at school who did this. They were roommates in college, both worked for the same lab, then worked at the same tech company after college. They later moved to California, continued living together and working on the same teams at work. Eventually, they got separate houses but still work together as a high functioning mini-team in their own shared…

Startup coming soon...ahem ahem

I can't imagine either of them putting up with things like doing sales, handling operations or not having a steady paycheck, but anything is possible.

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

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Post by saylynt »

elliotec wrote: post #144
troydavis wrote: post #8

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.

We've made improvements based on that feedback, thanks! We also sent you a message but didn't hear back. If you're still interested, we'd be happy to help. You also mentioned that we should hire your team - We'd love to if we had the capital, but we'd rather place you somewhere that can pay you a lot better than we can :)

Ravi Grover, Elevator CTO

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

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Post by mindhash »

I have always had my eyes on teams more than individuals. Once I hired too. It works out well when you are starting out a project but not so well in on going efforts. The new teams usually become team within your team. It makes things difficult. So I realized its best when starting out.

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

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Post by dassen »

As a Startup you need an efficient team to go-to-market quickly. You can't waste 4-6 months building a team. At www.swipeguide.com we hired a full stack development team on www.squads.com to help us build our first product. Once you prove to have product-market fit, you can then start growing your own team. Works well for us :)

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

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Post by mrunkel »

JSeymourATL wrote: post #120

> a platform where recruiters can search and hire teams... If your team is any good -- you're likely on Talent Acquisition's radar screen already. Relative to an actual platform to enable these deals, it would seem that the enthusiasm for "Aquihires" has piqued > > https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/acquihire/

Do you mean peaked or piqued?

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

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Post by neves »

saas_sam wrote: post #137
neves wrote: post #135

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.

I read a lot of anti-capitalism jibberish on HN & Reddit but I think this one takes the cake. Then again, I DO recall when my CEO gave speeches about "fostering less teamwork" and that other time he flipped the table at the company happy hour when he overheard an engineer invite a sales guy over to his apartment. OH and not to mention my company's strict policy on NO employee referrals for hiring... Hmm maybe you're…

This is supposed to be sarcastic
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