As someone who works in security and has sent out anonymous surveys in a corporate environment. * Never trust a survey to be truly anonymous * Sure, you can send google surveys that will tell you they don't collect your username and you can trust that. However, a lot of surveys still collect information like your IP address. Unless you're sitting in the office and know for a 100% certainty that your reported IP addre…
Ask HN: CEO wants us to fill out NOT ANONYMOUS survey that only he can read
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Re: Ask HN: CEO wants us to fill out NOT ANONYMOUS survey that only he can read
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> I would shoot straight. Not once in my career have I ever suffered for an honest assessment given humbly Same. It is frightening how many comments point to the exact opposite, presumably with the ulterior motive that this increases the chance of self-preservation. But at the same time nothing can be improved by this. Although a team should have exactly this as a goal: improvement of the product/service.
People can have opposite experiences from the same situation, and all of them are equally valid. People are complicated and social structures are even more so. It's valuable to provide people with context when giving advice from personal experience. The person hearing the advice needs to understand how the situation you presented mirrors theirs and also have an idea of how similarly they are going to be perceived com…