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From this blog post: "The Terraform product organization has grown in kind, and is now composed of more than 100 people and a dozen teams, ..." From their job

by atsjie 5y ago

From this blog post: "The Terraform product organization has grown in kind, and is now composed of more than 100 people and a dozen teams, ..." From their job hiring page: 88 open engineering positions, (https://www.hashicorp.com/jobs/engineering https://www.hashicorp.com/jobs/engineering) That's a significant deficit compared to their current org size. It's only dwarfed by their open sales positions: 102 (https://www.hashicorp.com/jobs/sales https://www.hashicorp.com/jobs/sales, good sales people are hard to come by!) But yeah, they're swamped, you don't want your few resources to get overwhelmed and burned out before fixing your staffing issues. It's understandable.

sofixa 5y ago
Not all of those open positions are for Terraform, which alone has "more than 100 people".
- atsjie 5y ago
  You're right, I stand corrected!
jillesvangurp 5y ago
They have quite a few interesting products; so good to see things are going well for them. Terraform is probably one of their more well known ones. But I also use packer occasionally and have used vagrant before docker became a thing. I was looking into Nomad a few weeks ago because I'm kind of dreading the maze of complexity and misdirection that is Kubernetes and it's documentation. Absolutely nothing seems simple with that. Nomad's pitch seems to be being vastly less of a beast to deal with. I'm in need of something like that that can handle our quite modest and reasonable requirements without side-lining me for the next 2-3 months. Hashicorp excels in simplifying the complex and convoluted mess that other/bigger companies come up with. Their stance with open pull requests is a bit puzzling though. I guess they are a victim of their own success in terms of the number of PRs. But it maybe also indicates that they are struggling with being an OSS company. Working with the community instead of acting as a gateway for it is key. I'm guessing they have a lack of outside contributors that could help reviewing PRs. Having and curating such outside contributors would also be a great way to fill those 88 open engineering positions. Recruiting from your own OSS community is an important perk of being an OSS company.

by atsjie 5y ago

sofixa 5y ago

Not all of those open positions are for Terraform, which alone has "more than 100 people".

atsjie 5y ago
You're right, I stand corrected!

jillesvangurp 5y ago

They have quite a few interesting products; so good to see things are going well for them. Terraform is probably one of their more well known ones. But I also use packer occasionally and have used vagrant before docker became a thing. I was looking into Nomad a few weeks ago because I'm kind of dreading the maze of complexity and misdirection that is Kubernetes and it's documentation. Absolutely nothing seems simple with that. Nomad's pitch seems to be being vastly less of a beast to deal with. I'm in need of something like that that can handle our quite modest and reasonable requirements without side-lining me for the next 2-3 months. Hashicorp excels in simplifying the complex and convoluted mess that other/bigger companies come up with. Their stance with open pull requests is a bit puzzling though. I guess they are a victim of their own success in terms of the number of PRs. But it maybe also indicates that they are struggling with being an OSS company. Working with the community instead of acting as a gateway for it is key. I'm guessing they have a lack of outside contributors that could help reviewing PRs. Having and curating such outside contributors would also be a great way to fill those 88 open engineering positions. Recruiting from your own OSS community is an important perk of being an OSS company.