In my 15 years of working, I’ve often seen discussions on the importance of building great teams, but what about teams that stick together across opportunities? Over time, a core group of us has naturally formed—one of those groups that tends to move from job to job together. Started with two 15 years ago but we're up to about four or five with the last two missions. We're just people that work very well together and have found a great rhythm. We’ve taken on a big challenge/stepped into a obvious trap a few years ago: transforming a more traditional company into a tech company.<p>I’ve decided it’s time to at least start looking at some opportunities, but there’s nothing on the horizon in my network at the moment.<p>What strikes me as curious is that while recruitment and opportunities is a normal subject on platforms like Hacker News, I don't think I've ever seen discussions or even comments about entire teams looking to move together. I also don't know any other groups larger than maybe two co-founders that constantly move together.<p>Aside from the obvious scenario of acquisition, is this just not a thing? Does anyone have experience with group opportunities, or is it simply too custom, or even not feasible for most?
I'm in a similar position to you. Group of friends which has formed from working across multiple companies over the years.<p>I asked a few recruiters this question and was really disappointed that none of them were interested in placing a group (even just 2 developers) together.<p>The only way we had any success was by talking with early-ish stage startups who were looking to build engineering teams. A friend and I spoke with a couple of founders who wanted to hire us both. Unfortunately one didn't have enough cash and the other opportunity was less exciting to us, so it didn't go anywhere.<p>We've since ended up working on a project together for a very early stage startup, compensated with equity as well as salary. We still have our day jobs though, it's an evenings and weekends thing for now.
Starting a new consulting company is the typical way a team moves to a new work context together. This makes it simple for an organization to engage the team: there's but a single negotiation and no responsibility for assigning contributor tasks and compensation in a way that makes each team member happy.<p>Good luck.