[k1w1]

Aha! (https://www.aha.io) | Rails / React / Devops | REMOTE

Aha! is the #1 tool for product managers to plan strategy and roadmaps. We serve more than 700,000 users worldwide. We are looking for:

* Javascript and geometry expert? Help us build our HTML canvas based whiteboard & mockup tool.

* Experienced full-stack, front end and platform engineers to work on the Aha! product. Our application is built in Ruby on Rails, with React on the frontend for rich client-side experiences.

* Devops engineers with Ruby experience. We focus on the "dev" and all of our operations driven by code.

Aha! is profitable, you can work from anywhere in North or South America, and we offer excellent benefits. We use our own product to manage our work (which is especially rewarding) and we deploy continuously.

Our entire team has always been 100% remote - in North American timezones so we can collaborate during the work day.

[typeofhuman]

I notice Aha posts many jobs on LinkedIn - same job title and either same or varying location. The volume of posts is so much so that it seems spammy!

For example, on LinkedIn the search for "ruby on rails engineer in the United States" returns 5 aha Aha posts on the first page. And there are a total of 840 posts.

To ensure Aha is actively recruiting and not just vacuuming up resumes: How many positions are you hiring for now and how many have you hired in the last 6 months?

[k1w1]

I am the CTO of Aha! and made the posting above.

Aha! is remote and we hire anywhere in North America. The way that LinkedIn searches work for remote jobs means that posting in specific cities makes our job postings more likely to appear for an individual person making a search.

I have hired two engineers for my engineering team over the last 30 days.

As a bootstrapped, and profitable, company we hire a bit different than might be typical in companies that are trying to spend their funding to meet hiring goals. We have hired almost continuously for the last nine years and grown our team as we find great candidates.

We make product management software. We have no interest in vacuuming resumes for the sake of it. Reading the thousands of applications we do receive takes a huge effort and we only do it because hiring a great team is so important to our success. Unfortunately we receive so many applications in total that it is not possible to send a personal response to each one.

Each month that we have open positions in engineering I make a post to Hacker News because we have hired many people from these postings. It turns out that readers of HN are more highly correlated with what we look for in engineers than almost any other place we advertise.

[Ocha]

I’m pretty sure they are just trying to get devs that don’t know their own value - they don’t even advertise the range.

I applied to aha couple years ago. The leadership’s attitude was pretty bad and in the end they were upset at me that I had 4 other offers and all of them were substantially better. Their offer was capped out at 195k (pretty much full offer - they offer very small equity just so they can advertise they offer equity) for 10yr+ staff position. On the other hand Shopify was starting at 300k (with equity), before any negotiations

[coffee]

> The leadership’s attitude was pretty bad...

I've had a very similar experience to yours. It allowed me to quickly understand why we see their job postings littered across the web at such a high rate over the years. My take away was that they demand more than they are willing to provide.

[lbrito]

They've been posting the same ad for a year now. I've been through their recruitment too, with a similar "we're looking for better people" bland rejection in the initial stages.

Having worked for AWS, I respect the "high bar" thing. Fine. But lets be real for a second: Aha! isn't Amazon, and the past year was the strongest employers-market in the last what, 20 years? I have a hard time believing their engineering needs are consistently surpassing their candidate pool.

Either they're wasting everybody's time and not hiring anyone, or they have an insane churn, or they're the next Nvidia and have been consistently hiring dozens of people. I'll go with the simplest explanation.

Greytext is already doing a good job here, but it would be nice to see some additional quality indicators specifically for the job board. I've been toying with the idea of a "freshness" indicator for scenarios like this.

[phonerphone]

Yes these guys have been posting for some time now. I'm wondering what the point is of trying to vaccuum up resumes though? I think I am naive to that sort of scam.

[theonething]

I feel like I've been seeing this for years. I applied once and received no response back.

It's not a good look.

[coffee]

> To ensure Aha is actively recruiting and not just vacuuming up resumes: How many positions are you hiring for now and how many have you hired in the last 6 months?

This is a great and valid point. Not only for this company, but companies in general where we see a high volume of recurring posts over a period of time.

[pootpucker]

I see the same thing. I have applied in the past without hearing anything back. It's not just a bad look it's a bad practice and those who apply should know you have a tendency to ghost applicants.