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

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Post by austhrow743 » Sat, May 23, 2020, 5:37 AM UTC

ammon wrote: post #12

haram_masala wrote: post #5

This is awful. And announcing this late on a Friday is what news organizations call “taking out the trash,” publicizing something when people aren’t paying attention.

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)

>I think that taking on LinkedIn and creating a better engineering resume is a good thing to do.

Clearly and obviously not the part people are upset about. Cmon mate.

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

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Post by new_guy » Sat, May 23, 2020, 5:38 AM UTC

ammon wrote: post #12

haram_masala wrote: post #5

This is awful. And announcing this late on a Friday is what news organizations call “taking out the trash,” publicizing something when people aren’t paying attention.

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)

Isn't this breaching GDPR regulations along with a host of others?

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

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Post by hysan » Sat, May 23, 2020, 5:39 AM UTC

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…

What’s the next step from here? Public profiles themselves aren’t very useful in of themselves.

Asking as someone who has been on the platform for a while but has not found any success through it. I have other thoughts but would like to hear your plans before adding.

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

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, May 23, 2020, 5:39 AM UTC

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.

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

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Post by karterk » Sat, May 23, 2020, 5:40 AM UTC

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…

Please make this opt-in and not opt-out.

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

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Post by akiselev » Sat, May 23, 2020, 5:40 AM UTC

ammon wrote: post #12

haram_masala wrote: post #5

This is awful. And announcing this late on a Friday is what news organizations call “taking out the trash,” publicizing something when people aren’t paying attention.

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)

Really sorry that you are completely tone deaf.

You're not taking on LinkedIn, you're just trying to get a bigger piece of that good ole dark pattern pie.

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

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Post by kxr » Sat, May 23, 2020, 5:40 AM UTC

throwbacktictac wrote: post #30

kashishhora wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Clicked on the delete confirmation link, yet I can still login just fine?

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

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Post by csdreamer7 » Sat, May 23, 2020, 5:41 AM UTC

So I wasn't sure where to opt-out at first.

I clicked privacy center, ( https://triplebyte.com/privacy-center ), couldn't find the option, but chose 'Opt out of Personal Information Sharing' because why not?

After clicking the button I had to click a confirmation email to get this approved. Then it said it would happen within 30 days and I may be required to show govt ID.

Why? I am already verified with my login account. It is not like I am doing something sensitive like changing a password or email. And what is this about needing to show govt id? They have zero reason to need govt ID to opt out of 'Personal Information Sharing' of all things.

Honestly tempted to just delete my profile. (That may also require govt ID.)

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

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Post by judge2020 » Sat, May 23, 2020, 5:41 AM UTC

ganstyles wrote: post #24

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 somew…

> if I hadn't seen this post, I wouldn't have known about this

To be fair they sent an email to everyone who had signed up; I received the same email.

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

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Post by kemonocode » Sat, May 23, 2020, 5:42 AM UTC

ammon wrote: post #12

haram_masala wrote: post #5

This is awful. And announcing this late on a Friday is what news organizations call “taking out the trash,” publicizing something when people aren’t paying attention.

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)

Please consider making this change opt-in rather than opt-out. Imagine an employer finding someone's profile and seeing a mismatch between their qualifications on Triplebyte versus what they might have said in an interview, and having a negative impact on their prospects.

I do think it's an urgent matter and something that can and will come to bite you later- HN Is how I found out myself and I don't really think right now is the moment to play silly games with people's privacy, and not everybody may keep in touch with Triplebyte after their assessments.