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Re: Ask HN: Which companies are hiring in-person teams?

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Post by jitl »

n8cpdx wrote: post #25
jitl wrote: post #15

My employer, Notion Labs Inc, has open offices in San Francisco, New York, Dublin, Hyderabad and Tokyo, and plans to do Monday/Thursday in-person starting in a few months. We make a notes/wiki/tasks/organizer product that competes with Quip/Dropbox Paper/Trello/Airtable. Our engineering team culture is thoughtful, introspective, and a little bit scrappy. We’re tackling interesting challenges in these domains: a very…

Are you concerned about having so much overhead for such a small company? That’s a lot of expensive offices. I get that venture money is cheap right now, but with upcoming tightening there’s reason to suspect future funding rounds might not be so easy. Are you going to be stuck in a place where you have to chase hypergrowth even when it doesn’t make sense for the business? Notion is a fine product, but there is a lot…

> Are you going to be stuck in a place where you have to chase hypergrowth even when it doesn’t make sense for the business

Currently the business is doing well, which is driving growth. Even in a plausible worst-case scenario, given our favorable funding to date (last round was $275 million at $10 billion valuation) I don't see cause for concern.

> What are the 400 other people doing? Sales?

I gave very vague rounded-up numbers to give a sense for maximum scale, please don't read too much into the ratio between the numbers.

Re: Ask HN: Which companies are hiring in-person teams?

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Post by pnutjam »

pnutjam wrote: post #16
kfk wrote: post #7

A little out of topic. We (dyvenia) are not in SF but we hire only hybrid roles in Krakow with min 2 days of office work. While this might not help you, I just wanted to say that to us full remote doesn't work, especially in a time where senior skills are lacking and we hire people at the beginning of their carriers. We do a lot of training internally to bring people up to speed. I think the 100% remote dynamic, whic…

I disagree. I find mentoring weaker team members much easier over remote. They are not crammed into my cube trying to take notes, we can cut and paste back and forth, we can talk without disturbing the rest of the office. I don't see the issues people keep insinuating.

Yes, I believe they do.

Re: Ask HN: Which companies are hiring in-person teams?

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Post by jjav »

naderkhalil wrote: post #27

We felt the same way. This Paul Graham quote is funny “If Zoom were the default and someone just invented face to face, it would seem like an amazing step forward.” We’re growing our team and are in person in SF if you’re interested: nader at brev.dev

> “If Zoom were the default and someone just invented face to face, it would seem like an amazing step forward.”

That's a fairly biased way of phrasing it though...

How about:

If Zoom was the default and someone invented that you have to get up two hours earlier every day, get prepared, go sit in traffic for 90 minutes, then at the end of the day keep watching traffic info to see when you can leave which ends up being 8pm to avoid a 2 hour commute and then get home at 9pm, kids already sleep so you don't see them, crash in bed for that early,early start again tomorrow.

Yeah, not feeling like a step forward when the full picture is painted.

Re: Ask HN: Which companies are hiring in-person teams?

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Post by ali_wetrill »

jjav wrote: post #33
naderkhalil wrote: post #27

We felt the same way. This Paul Graham quote is funny “If Zoom were the default and someone just invented face to face, it would seem like an amazing step forward.” We’re growing our team and are in person in SF if you’re interested: nader at brev.dev

> “If Zoom were the default and someone just invented face to face, it would seem like an amazing step forward.” That's a fairly biased way of phrasing it though... How about: If Zoom was the default and someone invented that you have to get up two hours earlier every day, get prepared, go sit in traffic for 90 minutes, then at the end of the day keep watching traffic info to see when you can leave which ends up bein…

This is also unfair and biased, if I accepted an in-person job like 5 hours away obviously it's going to suck.

There's a happy medium -- if the commute was short I'd love it because it gets me out of the house and clears my mind. I also like the separation of space and there's no way I can afford to have a second office in my home. There's also great energy from co-workers. Obviously reasonable parameters on both sides make a difference.

I wonder what people with kids think though, I don't have that experience but I imagine as long as schools are open working at home might be better?

Re: Ask HN: Which companies are hiring in-person teams?

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Post by thanhp »

Check out Philo! We're hybrid (days a week in office) in SF, NYC and Boston. We've also just decided to offer remote flexibility for experienced folks too. We're trying to make it work for everyone. :)

For folks who decide they want to do the hybrid model, we'll add $500 a month to their paycheck to be put towards parking, transportation, whatever expenses they might accrue coming into the office.

https://jobs.philo.com

Re: Ask HN: Which companies are hiring in-person teams?

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Post by jjav »

ali_wetrill wrote: post #34
jjav wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> “If Zoom were the default and someone just invented face to face, it would seem like an amazing step forward.” That's a fairly biased way of phrasing it though... How about: If Zoom was the default and someone invented that you have to get up two hours earlier every day, get prepared, go sit in traffic for 90 minutes, then at the end of the day keep watching traffic info to see when you can leave which ends up bein…

This is also unfair and biased, if I accepted an in-person job like 5 hours away obviously it's going to suck. There's a happy medium -- if the commute was short I'd love it because it gets me out of the house and clears my mind. I also like the separation of space and there's no way I can afford to have a second office in my home. There's also great energy from co-workers. Obviously reasonable parameters on both sid…

> I wonder what people with kids think though, I don't have that experience but I imagine as long as schools are open working at home might be better?

The worst part, when they're young, is that it's very difficult-to-impossible to succesfully fight through traffic at evening rush hour to get home early enough while they are still awake (young kids sleep very early).

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