Which companies are hiring in-person teams?
Comparing my pre-pandemic (in-person) and current remote working situations, I believe that I would be more productive and creative if I meet regularly in person with my coworkers. Doesn't have to be 5 days a week - in fact, a mix of remote and in-person enable important, focused work. Though remote seems to work well for a lot of people, I can't help but miss in-person interactions and the spark that they bring.
I'm looking at positions at startups and wish there was a filter for (current or eventual) in-person collaboration. I suspect that this may be the case for others who are on the hunt, so I hope that this thread can be generally helpful.
Which companies are hiring specifically for in-person roles? How many days a week are in person? (SF Bay Area roles would be particularly appreciated!)
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
A little out of topic. We (dyvenia) are not in SF but we hire only hybrid roles in Krakow with min 2 days of office work. While this might not help you, I just wanted to say that to us full remote doesn't work, especially in a time where senior skills are lacking and we hire people at the beginning of their carriers. We do a lot of training internally to bring people up to speed. I think the 100% remote dynamic, which is very strong in Poland in IT, is going to be problematic for a lot of people, especially those still in the early development of their skills or, and this makes me even more sad, for those looking to transition into IT from other paths like Finance or Engineering.
Go for bigger companies. Most of the actual startup-y startups figured out the release from big city rent and compensation expectations really helps them grow while staying lean.
My company, Antithesis, is building a fully in-person team. We have worked on hard projects before -- we built FoundationDB -- and this is the model that we found works for complex, audacious projects. Working closely on design at a whiteboard or coding as a pair is just far more rewarding in person. And in order to grow fast we need high bandwidth, low latency knowledge transfer options. Again, that's also just clearly more feasible in-person. And, of course, there's the great chance to increase team trust and cohesion through chance conversations and occasional lunches together. What we're working on now is both more complex and more audacious that FoundationDB: therefore we are all together in the office.
It's true that there are some downsides from the company's perspective: we have a smaller pool of talent to pull from and the office environment can be interrupt prone. Both, however, we think are more than offset by the upsides.
We're located in Northern VA and growing! Check out a list of jobs at https://antithesis.breezy.hr/ or, if you love building complex things and are great to work with, just shoot us a message at jobs@antithesis.com.
Going by the top post on the front-page at the moment, Google
Some hardware companies seem to require people on site too. Some jobs I saw last year included a factory robot diagnostics company and a drone company.
At Asana we've got a hybrid thing going on, where generally (pandemic aside) we're in the office "more often than not". Have a look at asana.com/jobs - the people are awesome, culture is great, company is fun, the mission is inspiring, the product is the best and we're leading the space of collaborative work management platforms.
We felt the same way. This Paul Graham quote is funny “If Zoom were the default and someone just invented face to face, it would seem like an amazing step forward.”
We’re growing our team and are in person in SF if you’re interested: nader at brev.dev
Skydio in San Mateo, CA. Flying robots are a lot easier and more fun to make in person!
Check out --> http://autonomy.skyd.io/
Contact me {hayk at skydio dot com}
Check out Philo! We're hybrid (days a week in office) in SF, NYC and Boston. We've also just decided to offer remote flexibility for experienced folks too. We're trying to make it work for everyone. :)
For folks who decide they want to do the hybrid model, we'll add $500 a month to their paycheck to be put towards parking, transportation, whatever expenses they might accrue coming into the office.
https://jobs.philo.com
If anyone is based in Houston and looking for an optional in-person environment, my startup apmhelp.com (we help property managers scale their business) has space and will continue to grow at the Ion office in midtown.
We're hiring accountants, folks with consulting exp, engineers, and RE/Property management exp.
LinkedIn has such filter.
It's called flex office by most companies.
A lot of companies have "hybrid" status with a few days per week in office.