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I agree with the position, even if the post feels sponsored content-y, perhap piggybacking on what is becoming a common argument for engineers. The idea of Ele

I agree with the position, even if the post feels sponsored content-y, perhap piggybacking on what is becoming a common argument for engineers. The idea of Elevator itself is interesting though: getting hired in groups with friends that you already work well together with. As the author points out, this is a common way to meet cofounders and start a company. I wonder if it'll work by putting that same group in an established company.

palakchokshi 11y ago
It is kind of like an acqui-hire where the buyer is paying for the team and maybe some tech. However I can see many challenges implementing this for a team of more experienced candidates. Not everyone on a team has the same motivations for a job. e.g. I might work at a certain place because I like the work, I like the people I work with, I like the salary/perks I have and it is 5 miles from where I live. Another person on the team might be more motivated by a high salary and might want to be paired with a different company, yet another might be motivated by challenging work, etc. How do you align the motivations of multiple individuals that work on a team so that everyone will want to be swept up by another company? This becomes even more problematic with mixed age teams, > 3 person teams, mixed experience teams that work great together at Company X working on Problems Y/Z but might not be that great working on Problems A/B/C
- mikeyanderson 11y ago
  The beautiful thing is that a team is non-discrete. If you have a set of 20 people you've worked with in the past that you'd love to work with again we can find the permutations that make the most sense for a given opportunity and let the team see that.
mikeyanderson 11y ago
We're just a tiny bootstrapped start up who started Elevator because we think this needs to exist in the world. Hopefully that adds validity to the argument that we'd quit our jobs because we believe in the idea so much.

palakchokshi 11y ago

It is kind of like an acqui-hire where the buyer is paying for the team and maybe some tech. However I can see many challenges implementing this for a team of more experienced candidates. Not everyone on a team has the same motivations for a job. e.g. I might work at a certain place because I like the work, I like the people I work with, I like the salary/perks I have and it is 5 miles from where I live. Another person on the team might be more motivated by a high salary and might want to be paired with a different company, yet another might be motivated by challenging work, etc. How do you align the motivations of multiple individuals that work on a team so that everyone will want to be swept up by another company? This becomes even more problematic with mixed age teams, > 3 person teams, mixed experience teams that work great together at Company X working on Problems Y/Z but might not be that great working on Problems A/B/C

mikeyanderson 11y ago
The beautiful thing is that a team is non-discrete. If you have a set of 20 people you've worked with in the past that you'd love to work with again we can find the permutations that make the most sense for a given opportunity and let the team see that.

mikeyanderson 11y ago

We're just a tiny bootstrapped start up who started Elevator because we think this needs to exist in the world. Hopefully that adds validity to the argument that we'd quit our jobs because we believe in the idea so much.