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

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Post by wolfgang42 »

throwbacktictac wrote: post #42
csdreamer7 wrote: post #38

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 acco…

Indeed, it does require a gov't ID to delete you profile. Triplebyte is starting to look like Keyser Soze here :)

That’s particularly strange given that they didn’t even need me to show ID for them to get me a job. The first time during the entire process that anyone had any proof of my legal existence was when I filled out my I-9 so I could get a paycheck. They flew me across the country for interviews and invited me to the Triplebyte office for dinner on nothing more solid than my email address and a friendly face.

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

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Post by gherig4 »

throwbacktictac wrote: post #11

I'm curious about why this post appears to be on it way to being flagged off of the home page. It's valuable information and is likely very relevant to the HN community. Thanks for the heads up @winston_smith.

It is off the homepage again.

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

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Post by judge2020 »

akiselev wrote: post #48
judge2020 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

If we're going to be fair, we have to acknowledge the history of email over the last thirty years: spam, spam filters, and the "Mark as Spam" button. Email is what I use to notify my customers of a 25% sale, not to tell them that I'm going to plaster their data all over the internet in violation of the spirit of the service I'm providing. I use regular mail for that.

I'm very much only addressing the small string of text I quoted; I agree it should have been opt-in since many people don't check their email diligently.

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

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Post by cubicPangolin »

Registered on hacker news JUST to post this. I saw this email earlier today, skimmed it and thought "hmm cool they're competing with Linkedin or something" and then immediately forgot. I had absolutely no idea they were going to exploit my data and breach my expectations of privacy to drive traffic to their website (an issue in and of itself). And the part where they tell you to go ahead and opt out is hidden in there! Really not good

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

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Post by conductr »

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 would have loved to get this out earlier in the week

You didn’t launch anything. All you had to do was edit the “1 week” part of your email and you could have sent earlier

Also, are you genuinely surprised by this backlash? Did you really think making people’s info public was going to be a popular decision? It’s hard for me to understand how common sense doesn’t prevail in this situation.

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

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Post by remote_phone »

wolfgang42 wrote: post #51
throwbacktictac wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed, it does require a gov't ID to delete you profile. Triplebyte is starting to look like Keyser Soze here :)

That’s particularly strange given that they didn’t even need me to show ID for them to get me a job. The first time during the entire process that anyone had any proof of my legal existence was when I filled out my I-9 so I could get a paycheck. They flew me across the country for interviews and invited me to the Triplebyte office for dinner on nothing more solid than my email address and a friendly face.

It’s not strange. It’s artificial friction to make it harder to opt out. It’s obvious they don’t want people to opt out so they make it very difficult to do so. What a shady company.

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

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Post by ammon »

hysan wrote: post #33
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.

We plan to add more engineering-specific sections to the profiles. I think there's a lot of room to just display what matters to engineers/eng hiring managers better. Then we want to use the profiles to push the industry to look beyond traditional credentials (school, work at top companies). Recruiters say that they want to do this, but we need to get them off of LinkedIn where everything is designed around the traditional credentials.

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

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Post by gherig4 »

ammon wrote: post #57
hysan wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

We plan to add more engineering-specific sections to the profiles. I think there's a lot of room to just display what matters to engineers/eng hiring managers better. Then we want to use the profiles to push the industry to look beyond traditional credentials (school, work at top companies). Recruiters say that they want to do this, but we need to get them off of LinkedIn where everything is designed around the tradi…

How's it feel? When is the apology coming?

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

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Post by [deleted] »

new_guy wrote: post #32
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)

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

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

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Post by wolfgang42 »

remote_phone wrote: post #56
wolfgang42 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s particularly strange given that they didn’t even need me to show ID for them to get me a job. The first time during the entire process that anyone had any proof of my legal existence was when I filled out my I-9 so I could get a paycheck. They flew me across the country for interviews and invited me to the Triplebyte office for dinner on nothing more solid than my email address and a friendly face.

It’s not strange. It’s artificial friction to make it harder to opt out. It’s obvious they don’t want people to opt out so they make it very difficult to do so. What a shady company.

Yeah, I was using “strange” in a pointedly ironic sense. There’s no good way to spin the juxtaposition between the two standards.
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