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SerpApi’s job postings show up every single month without fail in "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" threads. A quick search brings up 8 pages of results for SerpApi. For

SerpApi’s job postings show up every single month without fail in "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" threads. A quick search brings up 8 pages of results for SerpApi. For context, Tesla—a massive company with far more roles, market cap, and global operations—only has 14 pages. Even MixRank, another notorious repeat offender, only has 7 pages. It’s crazy how often SerpApi posts here. What’s going on? Either they’re scaling faster than Tesla (spoiler: they’re not), or they’re constantly churning through employees. If you’re thinking about applying, do yourself a favor and ask questions like: + Why are there so many open roles so often? + What’s the typical employee tenure? + What’s the actual work environment like after onboarding? Posting jobs every month like clockwork says a lot, and none of it screams stability.

hartator 2y ago
We have been hiring around 1-2 employees per month. You can check our team page (https://serpapi.com/team https://serpapi.com/team) against its WaybackMachine (http://web.archive.org/web/20220127075144/https://serpapi.com/team http://web.archive.org/web/20220127075144/https://serpapi.co...). It’s less than we were targeting and are still hiring. Around 40-50 this year. Regarding onboarding and tenure, we have virtually 0% turn over so far - which is one of the strongest if not the strongest metric for management performance - outside of us terminating people. Regarding activity on HN, I am genuinely on HN at least 4-5 times per day. Probably too much lol. It has been good to find like-minded people, our people, and HN has been instrumental in building a very-like-minded, highly trusted, highly motivated, and super smart team. We do reject a lot of people. And I am sorry if we had rejected you in the past.
- dzonga 2y ago
  my take is you guy have a lot of work to do in a domain people are not good in / interested in . so people think you're fake. but having scrapped a few things I know lol.
  - hartator 2y ago
    Yes, it’s far from being easy.
davidsojevic 2y ago
I started with SerpApi as a Senior Engineer in October 2024 after applying via one of the HN who is hiring threads, so I'll happily speak to the work environment as I've experienced it since joining. The onboarding period is very generous of time and focuses on learning about the company and the offerings and has you utilise the APIs in a number of creative ways so you can experience it in some of the ways that customers are using it and challenges they may face. After onboarding, it it is exactly as described by hartator and on the SerpApi careers page - everything from how you work, to the high levels of trust and transparency is absolutely accurate and I would encourage anyone interested to take a look at the public roadmap on GitHub (https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues) to see just a small snapshot of this. It is an incredibly fulfilling role to be in and affords you the opportunity to work on a large number of interesting and challenging problems which has been amazing for me as someone who loves a good challenge. I have been very happy with my decision to join!

hartator 2y ago

We have been hiring around 1-2 employees per month. You can check our team page (https://serpapi.com/team https://serpapi.com/team) against its WaybackMachine (http://web.archive.org/web/20220127075144/https://serpapi.com/team http://web.archive.org/web/20220127075144/https://serpapi.co...). It’s less than we were targeting and are still hiring. Around 40-50 this year. Regarding onboarding and tenure, we have virtually 0% turn over so far - which is one of the strongest if not the strongest metric for management performance - outside of us terminating people. Regarding activity on HN, I am genuinely on HN at least 4-5 times per day. Probably too much lol. It has been good to find like-minded people, our people, and HN has been instrumental in building a very-like-minded, highly trusted, highly motivated, and super smart team. We do reject a lot of people. And I am sorry if we had rejected you in the past.

dzonga 2y ago
my take is you guy have a lot of work to do in a domain people are not good in / interested in . so people think you're fake. but having scrapped a few things I know lol.
- hartator 2y ago
  Yes, it’s far from being easy.

davidsojevic 2y ago

I started with SerpApi as a Senior Engineer in October 2024 after applying via one of the HN who is hiring threads, so I'll happily speak to the work environment as I've experienced it since joining. The onboarding period is very generous of time and focuses on learning about the company and the offerings and has you utilise the APIs in a number of creative ways so you can experience it in some of the ways that customers are using it and challenges they may face. After onboarding, it it is exactly as described by hartator and on the SerpApi careers page - everything from how you work, to the high levels of trust and transparency is absolutely accurate and I would encourage anyone interested to take a look at the public roadmap on GitHub (https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues) to see just a small snapshot of this. It is an incredibly fulfilling role to be in and affords you the opportunity to work on a large number of interesting and challenging problems which has been amazing for me as someone who loves a good challenge. I have been very happy with my decision to join!