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Ask HN: Can you name companies (5+ employees) with distributed/nomadic teams?

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So far I have:

Buffer, Toptal, Maptia & Upworthy - fully nomadic, the employees & founders are always on the go

Basecamp, GitHub, Mozilla - known for their distributed teams and mobility but majority of workforce still in HQ

Can you help me find more?

There is a list of 60 here: https://remote.co/qa-leading-remote-companies/

That's a great list but it's really hard to distinguish between fully nomadic (Buffer is the perfect example) and companies that hire many workers remotely. I think most of the listed companies hire remotely (ex. Trello) and have big distributed teams.

I am hugely interested in more examples like Buffer.

Pretty sure http://rogueamoeba.com fits the bill. I enjoyed an interesting interview with the founder Paul Kafasis on Debug. I had a good laugh at the discussions about having employees for years and never meeting them. http://m.imore.com/debug-66-paul-kafasis-rogue-amoeba

Stack Overflow, from the very beginning [0]

[0] http://blog.codinghorror.com/on-working-remotely/

I missed that one, awesome find.

Articulate is at 150+ employees, about 100 of which are developers. And they're always hiring. And they have no office anywhere.

It's surprising they don't come up in these discussions more often.

For a company without an office, why are they limiting their hires to the US?

They're not. I live in France. Several devs live out of a backpack wherever the sun happens to be shining.

We're small, bigger than 5 of course, but small. Been distributed for 18 years, we tried office space for the bay area people and eventually went 100% distributed. We've got people on both coasts of the US as well as the middle (not sure if we have anyone in MST but we have all the other time zones covered). And people in Canada, eh?

www.bitkeeper.com

And are you hiring?

Not right now, we're trying to see if we can market our way back to being a known brand. If we can do that, yeah, we'll be hiring.

BuzzFeed is known for having a lot of its tech teams working remotely.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/benronne/how-buzzfeed-tech-never-los...

Nomad List is a team of 5+ data editors, writers + founder. http://nomadlist.com

Didn't know you've got that many people involved. Awesome stuff. By the way, are you in Bali? I would love to chat.

FetLife, the kinky social network, is entirely remote.

I could've sworn they were based out of Vancouver based on their last job posting for a DevOps person.

Zapier's entire team is remote.

Automattic/Wordpress I believe.

www.metafilter.com/

At least 5 employees, distributed team. Their podcasts are produced using Skype, iirc.

Baremetrics, GrooveHq

Isn't Baremetrics only 2 or 3 people though?

They are six now https://baremetrics.com/about

Excellent! So glad to hear they're growing!

SoftLayer Catalyst

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