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

Re:Ask HN: What about a platform for hiring teams instead of... by Thriptic on Thursday July 06, 2017 @10:41AM (#14710744)

To take the proposed model to it's logical extreme, what if you only want 3/10, 2/10, 1/10? Now you're suddenly back to hiring individuals again.

The whole point of hiring a team is that you aren't evaluating individual performance or skills; you're evaluating the groups' performance and skills. If the team is good, the people who can't immediately be helpful will re-train so that they can provide skills that are useful in the new context. The team will evolve to become the exact team that you need.

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Re:Ask HN: What about a platform for hiring teams instead of... by ericd on Thursday July 06, 2017 @12:10PM (#14711419)

Right, only wanting to hire 7/10 means the company thinks they're better at evaluating team members in a single interview than the team is at evaluating its members after working together. Or they just can't afford a team that large, and it's not the right one for them.

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Re:Ask HN: What about a platform for hiring teams instead of... by vosper on Thursday July 06, 2017 @12:28PM (#14711576)

Unless everyone in the team did the same job it's pretty likely you'd end up in a situation of "we really like you 7 for the application layer, but we have a great front end team already, so we don't need you 3. So, do the 7 of you want a job?"

That seems like a best-case scenario to me, unless the team is 3-4 people and someone is looking to create a capability or product from scratch.

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Re:Ask HN: What about a platform for hiring teams instead of... by s73ver on Thursday July 06, 2017 @01:13PM (#14711986)

Add a filter for team size? That way you're not looking at teams that are bigger than you can afford.

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