[untothebreach]

So much this. I have pretty much stopped clicking on the HN posts from HN companies looking for employees, because almost none of them offer remote work. Which is too bad, because there are quite a few HN companies that I would love to work for.

[ryanSrich]

I highly suspect that it's a consequence of being a YC company. The president of YC has even publicly denounced allowing remote work.

> As a side note, avoid remote employees in the early days. As a culture is still gelling, it’s important to have everyone in the same building. [1]

1. http://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-hire

[bryanh]

Actually, I think truly remote teams are just rare regardless of affiliation - we're YC, 20 employees, and only hire remote for all the reasons outlined in this thread and others.

[lsaferite]

Seems like setting yourself up to have an 'everyone is remote' culture at that point in time would make the most sense.

[ryanSrich]

That makes the most sense to me as well. If you're planning on having a distributed team, doing it early on is the best, and perhaps the only, time to do it.