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

Re:Ask HN: Which companies are hiring in-person teams? by jitl on Thursday March 03, 2022 @07:55AM (#30540289)

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 write-heavy workload, a thick client React web app, interesting data modeling for collaborative editing. I find the work rewarding because we’re building something tons of people use every day. The business is doing well and we’re growing, but still very much a small team/start up (<500 across those offices, <100 eng) so now is a great time to join.

Careers page: https://www.notion.so/careers

My blog post about the data model: https://www.notion.so/blog/data-model-behind-notion

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Re:Ask HN: Which companies are hiring in-person teams? by n8cpdx on Thursday March 03, 2022 @10:10AM (#30542008)

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 of competition (little or no pricing power) and little to no network effect (it is very easy to switch to other providers).

What are the 400 other people doing? Sales?

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Re:Ask HN: Which companies are hiring in-person teams? by jitl on Thursday March 03, 2022 @11:23AM (#30542991)

> 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.

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Re:Ask HN: Which companies are hiring in-person teams? by MAMAMassakali on Thursday March 03, 2022 @08:09AM (#30540454)

Do you hire for an open position at one location at other location?

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Re:Ask HN: Which companies are hiring in-person teams? by jitl on Thursday March 03, 2022 @08:26AM (#30540657)

Generally no, for example a Japan sales focused position needs to be filled in Tokyo. But there may be some latitude for some kinds of positions depending on requirements and the hiring manager.

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