Ask HN: Why Can't AeroFS find engineers?
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?
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.Off topic, from http://www.aerofs.com/signup, "early beta?" Your first post to HN happened almost one and a half years ago... ;-)
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).
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.