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

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Post by interactivecode »

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)

Hey Ammon, the idea is good, it's solid. Nothing bad there. I think everyone knows LinkedIn has it's issues. But like come on. Why make everyone's private job search public? by default no less!?

How can we trust triplebite with our career, finance information and personal information when you pull these kinds of moves. Make a good product. If it's actually good people will sign up.

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

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Post by PudgePacket »

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.

Since I can't delete a post I've removed the original content after seeing dang's message. Appreciate your reply dang :)

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

#63

Post by Dolores12 »

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

And to delete account you have to email them.

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

#64

Post by steveoc64 »

A lot of complaints below, and not much sympathy from the likes of me on this one.

An entire generation (across all age ranges) has willingly thrown out personal liberty in favour of convenience ... and now the surprise when that turns around to bite.

Honestly, what did you expect ?

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

#65

Post by Zekio »

karterk wrote: post #35
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.

well if they have European users they basically have to make it opt-in

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

#66

Post by ammon »

interactivecode wrote: post #61
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)

Hey Ammon, the idea is good, it's solid. Nothing bad there. I think everyone knows LinkedIn has it's issues. But like come on. Why make everyone's private job search public? by default no less!? How can we trust triplebite with our career, finance information and personal information when you pull these kinds of moves. Make a good product. If it's actually good people will sign up.

We're not making anyone's job search details pubic. All that the profile will show is that an engineer created a Triplebyte profile at some point in the past, and any badges they earned.

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

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Post by ammon »

yaacov wrote: post #29
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.

Well, sorry that you feel this way. I don't agree right now (clearly). But I'll certainly take this seriously and think more about it/listen to feedback. We're talking about relatively basic profiles, to give us the canvas to launch public achievement badges (that we hope allow us to better help people who don't have traditional credentials). My view, building this, is that we're not displaying anything more private than hundreds of other companies. Stack Overflow has public profiles. Hacker Rank has public profile. AngelList has public profiles. Even HN has public profiles. We are launching public profiles for a product that has not had them in the past, and I get that that's a more sensitive thing to do. What we've focused on to keep that from harming anyone is what data we include in the profiles. I wish we'd include more details about that in the email.

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

#68

Post by kxr »

web007 wrote: post #21
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?

They did, but they weighed this against launching with X thousand “active” profiles and decided it was worth the outrage. $GROWTH

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

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Post by dang »

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 set off the flamewar detector. We review submissions that are affected by that software, and turn it off for threads that aren't flamewars. I've done so for this one. Other than that, moderators didn't touch this post or (as far as I know) even see it.

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

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Post by dang »

PudgePacket wrote: post #62
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.

Since I can't delete a post I've removed the original content after seeing dang's message. Appreciate your reply dang :)

We don't moderate HN that way. It's just the opposite when a YC company is involved:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

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