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Re: Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public

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Post by web007 »

ammon wrote: post #10

Hey everyone. Happy to answer any questions about this. Basically, we think that LinkedIn profiles don't do a good job of showing engineering skill (especially for self-taught people or people from non-traditional backgrounds). I'm excited to just build better support for showing side projects and GitHub contributions. LinkedIn profiles have become the default engineering resume (despite the fact that most engineers…

How do you justify opt-out versus opt-in for publicizing this info? Do you not see the potential harm in "ammon is looking for a job" showing up to someone you work with?

Re: Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public

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Post by barry-cotter »

ammon wrote: post #10

Hey everyone. Happy to answer any questions about this. Basically, we think that LinkedIn profiles don't do a good job of showing engineering skill (especially for self-taught people or people from non-traditional backgrounds). I'm excited to just build better support for showing side projects and GitHub contributions. LinkedIn profiles have become the default engineering resume (despite the fact that most engineers…

When are you going to be available outside the US? If you were going to offer the service how much would it cost to have you do the interview/skills assessment as a service if you’re not going for other markets any time soon?

Re: Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public

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Post by ganstyles »

This is horrible, what a breach of trust. I used TB to stealthily interview for jobs, had a good experience. Recommended them to others. Now I see that if I hadn't seen this post, I wouldn't have known about this and those details would have been public, which had the potential to seriously undermine me at my current position. I'll opt out tomorrow, but according to others it sounds like the visibility link was somewhat hidden. At least with this they're well on the way to becoming the next LinkedIn, at least by their practices. What a dark pattern.

Re: Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public

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Post by northern-lights »

ammon wrote: post #10

Hey everyone. Happy to answer any questions about this. Basically, we think that LinkedIn profiles don't do a good job of showing engineering skill (especially for self-taught people or people from non-traditional backgrounds). I'm excited to just build better support for showing side projects and GitHub contributions. LinkedIn profiles have become the default engineering resume (despite the fact that most engineers…

If I opt-out and make my profile non-public, what kind of information in the profile will still be public?

Because, in the "Visibility" link in the profile builder says: Your public profile will be invisible and will not appear in public search engines. This simplified version of your Triplebyte profile showcases your technical achievements based on actual skills, not pedigree (it does not contain your score details, job status, or preferences). Turn your visibility “ON” in order to share your unique Triplebyte profile URL on job applications, LinkedIn, GitHub, and other platforms.

However, "Learn More" says the URL will be inaccessible when not Public. So, which is it?

Re: Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public

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Post by ganstyles »

wolfgang42 wrote: post #15
ammon wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really sorry that you think this is awful. Certainly do opt-out. I think that taking on LinkedIn and creating a better engineering resume is a good thing to do. I can assure you that the Friday announcement is a result of our team grinding to hit a planned release week, not anything other than that (I would have loved to get this out earlier in the week)

Maybe you should have considered the timing more carefully rather than rushing to keep it in the sprint? Pushing it out last minute just makes you sound desperate rather than shady, which isn’t much of an improvement.

And this should have been opt in, not "opt out within a week or else we'll dump your info and association with us onto the internet."

Re: Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public

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Post by wolfgang42 »

dorkinspace wrote: post #18
ammon wrote: post #10

Hey everyone. Happy to answer any questions about this. Basically, we think that LinkedIn profiles don't do a good job of showing engineering skill (especially for self-taught people or people from non-traditional backgrounds). I'm excited to just build better support for showing side projects and GitHub contributions. LinkedIn profiles have become the default engineering resume (despite the fact that most engineers…

This should absolutely be opt-in, not opt-out. Were people that originally interviewed aware before their interview that their profile would become public at a later date?

I interviewed with them last year, and just got this email. There may have been some of the usual boilerplate about “publish, disseminate, or publicly perform your content in order to provide our services” somewhere (actually, I recall a surprising lack of legalese) but there was absolutely not any attention drawn to the possibility that my profile would be shown to anyone other than the companies looking at the round of candidates I was included in.

Re: Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public

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Post by bgorman »

kylebarron wrote: post #6

Hard to find the opt-out button. You have to sign in, go to your "profile builder" [0], and then click the very low contrast "Visibility settings" button just below the top of your profile. [0]: https://triplebyte.com/candidates/profile_builder

Thanks for this, there is no way I would have ever found this without your post. It definitely seems like this link is intentionally hidden.

Re: Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public

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Post by yaacov »

ammon wrote: post #10

Hey everyone. Happy to answer any questions about this. Basically, we think that LinkedIn profiles don't do a good job of showing engineering skill (especially for self-taught people or people from non-traditional backgrounds). I'm excited to just build better support for showing side projects and GitHub contributions. LinkedIn profiles have become the default engineering resume (despite the fact that most engineers…

Thanks for coming to answer questions here even though you’re likely to get dragged through the mud for this decision.

FWIW, I agree with other commenters that this is a betrayal of trust but I don’t have anything original to add.

Re: Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public

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Post by throwbacktictac »

kashishhora wrote: post #8
andr wrote: post #4

If this inspires you to delete your profile, according to the help section, the only way to do it is by emailing candidate.support@triplebyte.com.

You can delete your account via https://triplebyte.com/privacy-center .

This doesn't seem to work. I requested to delete my profile but I didn't get a confirmation email. However, when I requested to make my profile invisible I immediately received an email confirmation.
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