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For all the toxicity blind is one of the best resources to discover comp info online, since sharing salary is still a bit taboo. Some of it is e-statting but I’ve found it to be useful for when you negotiate comp.
There's so much misinformation on it I find it hard to trust. I prefer to go with H1B salary databases.
the whole concept of blind is faulty! there is no way you could trust them to maintain your privacy. and of course they can read all the dirt on everything. it’s a guarantee they have no meaningful controls in place.
wanted to add, with all the recent (and we know to be continuously ongoing) talk about chinese espionage ... who needs high-cost espionage when you can get employees to air dirty laundry at zero-cost?
I'd never checked out Blind before. I just went there and checked out a few of the front page posts & comments. It has some of the most toxic and destructive "advice" I've seen for people asking for help or insight. I'm a bit astounded. Is this typical?
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It's pathetic, you see some of the most depraved, narcissistic members of the tech society there. The quality of the discourse you can guess is shockingly bad, and most people are from the Bay area. Is this an accurate representation of people in the Bay? Or is it just a platform for toxic folk to hang out?
I spent more time reading the threads than I should have, it's strangely addicting. I now feel naive for thinking that the people working at the big tech companies have a certain base level of "all-round" skills. In no way I expected so much cynicism, narcism and lack of empathy! Isn't this showing up in interviews? Or should it just be seen as online trolling and venting?
That depends on the interview, isn’t it? In my on-site with one of the companies, I was asked hard algorithm questions in four out of five rounds, and then one system design round. I doubt anything related to personality would show up
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As many others, I had heard about it and never actually took a look until now. Seems like a waste of time to me. Make a throw away account on Reddit like everyone else, and you'll probably get more well thought out and measured replies.
On Reddit I have no idea where a person who replies really works. You either haven't found the interesting threads or the interesting replies from internal people that make Blind different.
People are welcome to enjoy whatever fiction they want to read. I'm just saying you'll probably find more useful and reliable information elsewhere.
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> outright racism against Indians in particular. Racism is not illegal and should not be suppressed. It does should also not be encouraged, however. At the end of he day, people do not have the right to feel good. > My first look at Blind rated cities to work in by how hot/available women were there (e.g. comments like "SF sucks, you have to settle on dating uglies" or "NYC women are so much hotter than SV women, no…
> Nothing wrong with rating women. People do it all the time. It's about time it is made less taboo. In the current context of rampant sexual discrimination, there is everything wrong with "rating women". To be very clear, when "rating women" I presume you are talking about the snap judgements made based on stereotypical beauty attributes relating to physical appearance. The problem with "rating women" in this way is…
That's not just a problem with "rating women", or even with rating men (which happens a lot more than most people would be comfortable admitting!) for that matter. It's a basic failure mode in human psychology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect
And yes, marketing and advertising exploit this too. Associating a product with conventionally-attractive people is one way of manipulating us to make us feel better about it.
> Email verification is safe, as our patented infrastructure is set up so that all user account and activity information is completely disconnected from the email verification process.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US9439072B2/en?oq=9%2c439%...
> Certain embodiments herein also provides a system and method for authentication, which can prevent service users' identities from being exposed even by hacking of a terminal or server side of a service provider, negligence in information management or a manager's misconduct.
impossible.
> Certain embodiments herein also provides a system and method for authentication, which can store information provided by a service user during subscription and authentication procedures in such a manner that the information cannot be decoded from a side of a service provider's server.
Impossible without a trusted 3rd party to perform the authentication and return a token to the service provider. Which is a well known and well deployed, not novel technique.
Patents are hard to read, and this one is no exception. Unfortunately I don't have enough interest to invest the time required, but at a glance it seems that the technique is to have an authentication server that can hide the user identity from the relying service, basically by replacing it with a token. Too obvious.
But there's some kind of dedup exchange mentioned; it might be that the auth server doesn't itself store a list of the identities that it has authenticated previously so it has to interact with the service (in a blind way) to dedup. Perhaps the novelty here is that the service itself cannot uniquely identify users; ie each post could be coming from any user in a group. All the service knows is that the post is from a user in that group. On its face, that seems false -- for the first time ever I actually looked at blind and each post has a user pseudonym as metadata. There would be no point to that pseudonym if it didn't represent a uniquely identified individual user.
Anyway, all this is meaningless protection unless there is adequate SoD between the auth server and the service provider, which for teamblind it is obvious there is not.
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I spent more time reading the threads than I should have, it's strangely addicting. I now feel naive for thinking that the people working at the big tech companies have a certain base level of "all-round" skills. In no way I expected so much cynicism, narcism and lack of empathy! Isn't this showing up in interviews? Or should it just be seen as online trolling and venting?
Sociopaths are extremly good in faking empathy or a friendly personality when in need (eg interviews). To actually recognize them you have to look very close for at least some weeks once they feel they are not risking their initial position anymore. Sadly most companies at that point have no way of managing these guys or to recognize they have to fire them (often because they are still extremly careful to keep faking…
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It's pathetic, you see some of the most depraved, narcissistic members of the tech society there. The quality of the discourse you can guess is shockingly bad, and most people are from the Bay area. Is this an accurate representation of people in the Bay? Or is it just a platform for toxic folk to hang out?
I spent more time reading the threads than I should have, it's strangely addicting. I now feel naive for thinking that the people working at the big tech companies have a certain base level of "all-round" skills. In no way I expected so much cynicism, narcism and lack of empathy! Isn't this showing up in interviews? Or should it just be seen as online trolling and venting?
Using Blind with your company email on the company WiFi seems really dumb? Maybe I'm paranoid, but I act as though everything that goes through my company WiFi and on my company computer is being tracked and stored in some database forever under my name. And I assume the company email is used to send you a verification email, which means your employer is now tipped off to the fact that you're using a site to anonymou…
The WiFi bit doesn't matter much assuming Blind uses SSL (though I've never checked). Your company could see that you've connected but not what you've posted or read.