The funny thing is, I've noticed these too, and all I come away with is the impression that nobody wants to work for ZeroCater. I can't imagine that impression bodes well on recruiting.
Ask HN: Can we persist hide YC job postings from the same company?
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#32Alternatively it would be cool if comments could be open on job posts so that folks who've had experience applying, interviewing or working at the company can leave notes for others.
Cool idea but highly unlikely to go anywhere constructive. Lots of anon accounts at the least.
I’d like it, but it’s doubtful.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you feel about ad blockers?
I don’t use them. If the ads I see are too offensive, I don’t visit the site again. If there’s a paywall and I want to get around it, I pay.
I take a similar view. But it’s not so much about a desire to not pay for good content. It’s that there are way more content sources than time in the day for attention and money.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
You are being ironic, I presume. When near everyone who matters in SV / IT / tech is a user on your platform, I gather there is something of interest in the data trail they leave behind.
I mean, that argument could be used for any kind of data exhaust at all - data mining still has a massively negative reputation, particularly on HN.
Ah. Yes, sure, I very much share that opinion. Its done everywhere nevertheless.
I don't know the people at YC (other than dang from his comments.. a great mod) and their moral/ethical stance. But they are in the business of trying to raise unicorns though, with potential multi-billion valuation.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you feel about ad blockers?
I don’t use them. If the ads I see are too offensive, I don’t visit the site again. If there’s a paywall and I want to get around it, I pay.
When companies actually honor the DNT headers I may consider this, but for me as long as these sites refuse to stop tracking I feel I have no choice but to block their ad software.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t use them. If the ads I see are too offensive, I don’t visit the site again. If there’s a paywall and I want to get around it, I pay.
Did the GP ask you?
I didn't, but part of why I use websites like this is to get multiple viewpoints. I don't need anyone gatekeeping conversations with me.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
No one is stealing anything here, and I didn't even advocate for blocking the job postings (which I also pointed out I'm not sure are even paid). I simply questioned whether the job postings are even paid at all.
HN says that they are the ads on the platform - they’re a perk for the companies who have been accepted to YC and want to attract talent to their startup. If blocking them does not financially impact HN, blocking them would certainly make the life of that startup harder than it needs to be. Particularly as none of the arguments that routinely get used against trackers actually seem to apply here.
Those are really good points, and would have been a much better response than the soda can thing.
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#38The funny thing is, I've noticed these too, and all I come away with is the impression that nobody wants to work for ZeroCater. I can't imagine that impression bodes well on recruiting.
If you have LinkedIn Premium, you can see they've grown from 188 to 248 employees in the past year. Of those, 8 have been engineers. Overall, it looks like they have about 57 engineers in total now.
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#39The funny thing is, I've noticed these too, and all I come away with is the impression that nobody wants to work for ZeroCater. I can't imagine that impression bodes well on recruiting.
If you have LinkedIn Premium, you can see they've grown from 188 to 248 employees in the past year. Of those, 8 have been engineers. Overall, it looks like they have about 57 engineers in total now.
How many people have left in that period of time? Churn is a valuable metric.
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#40Not sure why YC would build a feature to limit the audience of their job postings on a platform they own and operate
You could argue that it might even increase the audience if specific users can hide companies they won't be working at and as a result they'd see more job postings from other places.
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