Ask HN: Why Can't AeroFS find engineers?

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by aidenn0 • 15 years ago

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I've seen the job add for AeroFS on HN a lot of times. Are they hiring a lot of people, or are they just not finding anybody?

yurisagalov2• 15 years ago

We're hiring a lot of people :)

From the posting:

  "Our team is small (there are six of us today) and we're looking to double 
   it in the near future."

More importantly, we're pretty selective about the type of people we want to hire and the type of team we want to build, so finding the right people is very important to us.

davidcollantes• 15 years ago

I understand you are hiring "a lot of people", but your submissions to HN are too close to each other, imho.

Off topic, from http://www.aerofs.com/signup, "early beta?" Your first post to HN happened almost one and a half years ago... ;-)

yurisagalov2• 15 years ago

you're probably right regarding the posts to HN being too close to each other. I'll scale them back.

A year and a half ago the product was in early alpha ;) In that time we've revisited and redone a lot of components that have unfortunately kept us in beta longer than we would've liked (we've gotten rid of the virtual drive, rewritten some of our syncing algorithms, and are working on another major re-factor based on user feedback now).

gruseom• 15 years ago

"early beta?" Your first post to HN happened almost one and a half years ago

Hard stuff is hard. When you're working on something deep and new, as I believe the AeroFS guys are, you can't necessarily know how long it will take.

aidenn0• 15 years ago

Ah yes, I missed that. Hiring 6 people of decent quality will take a long time.

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