I noticed that you've scaled the business quite quickly since inception a year ago, growing to around 100 employees.
I see a lot of advice saying to keep growth to only ~2x FTEs per year to preserve culture. How do you reconcile that with your hyper-scale financing and hiring trajectory?
Hong Kong is also an option. Relatively lenient on the work visa as long as you are skilled. Similar with a growing number of startups and big corps hiring lots of developers.
Shoot me an email (in my profile) if you need help / are strongly considering HK.
Part of it is the source code. It specifically scans for keywords such as SoMA and associates it with SF. Other countries / states / cities get no such special treatment.
Made me sad as my company in Hong Kong (and all others in Asia) doesn't show up.
Kites is a POI data company focused on Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. We aggregate data from individual merchants, scrapers, human sources, etc. and syndicate to many publishers.
We've been around for ~1.5 years and have 7 amazing people.
We're looking for a senior dev / architect. You want to deeply understand the customer and business model and drive the technology roadmap. You should be whip-smart technically and ideally have a solid theoretical CS background. Experience leading a technical team a big plus.
This position will especially appeal to hackers interested in gaining foreign experience. :) We'll help you relocate. Email in profile.
I noticed that you've scaled the business quite quickly since inception a year ago, growing to around 100 employees.
I see a lot of advice saying to keep growth to only ~2x FTEs per year to preserve culture. How do you reconcile that with your hyper-scale financing and hiring trajectory?
Thanks, really appreciate your thoughts.