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

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Post by ALittleLight »

ammon wrote: post #66
interactivecode wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Given your demonstrated propensity for making previously private information public, shouldn't we evaluate your claim as "We're not making anyone's job search details public yet."

I wonder, what future value will you find by giving away more private information? I know by this example that you won't even wait for the consent of your users before you exploit their private information.

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

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Post by alextheparrot »

I did a couple interviews through Triplebyte in 2017 (Purge emails every few years), but can’t remember which email/single sign-on provider I registered with...

Anyone have ideas on how to figure that out without accidentally registering and exacerbating the problem?

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

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Post by ponker »

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)

Crunchbase tells me that you have raised $50m. This means you have someone who runs your communications and you hopefully have some kind of PR or crisis management firm on retainer or at least in your Rolodex.

Call them on the phone right now before you make more bad decisions.

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

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Post by aerioux »

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…

1/2 of the triplebyte recruiters that reach out to me don't even reply

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

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Post by Raed667 »

I tried deleting my account and apparently it takes 30 days for some reason! That looks so shady!

  We're processing your request and should be done within 30 days.

  We will verify your request using the information associated with your account. Government identification may be required and we may ask you for more information in order to verify your identify.

  Any questions? Email us at privacy@triplebyte.com

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

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Post by deepaksurti »

u08ywo wrote: post #98
ALittleLight wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Easier to find the "delete account" link... https://triplebyte.com/privacy-center

It takes 30 days for any of these, actions to take place, but the window in which it was announced is a week. Something seems off.

And you need to have logged in already for the delete to work, after which you get an email to approve the request which ends up with this notice of requiring government id as well. Govt Id, really, what are they thinking here?

```

We're processing your request and should be done within 30 days.

We will verify your request using the information associated with your account. Government identification may be required and we may ask you for more information in order to verify your identify.

```

Triplebyte has definitely been the worst experience I have ever had, in fact they are so bad, i would rate them below the other unprofessional recruiters we all come across!

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

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Post by iovrthoughtthis »

steveoc64 wrote: post #78
cubicPangolin wrote: post #54

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 ther…

"breach my expectations of privacy" Q: where did these expectations of privacy come from ?

You’re right. Supposedly the hints have been in the privacy policy since December 2019.

Identifiers, third parties. “ Companies that use our services to be matched with job candidates. Candidate profiles created by our users are accessible to the public. “

https://triplebyte.com/privacy

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

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Post by hitekker »

iovrthoughtthis wrote: post #104
ammon wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your Triplebyte profile will NOT contain any data/details about you or your job search that will undermine you at your current employer. We should have included a screenshot and more details in the email. I'll talk to my team about following up with more details tomorrow. We are talking about a lightweight profile, like your Stack Overflow or HN profile, to provide us the canvas to release badges. That's it.

Hey! Welcome to your first PR disaster. I would suggest you step away from any scripts and turn on the company ears. Simply explaining what is going on more “clear” and repeating it more often probably won’t get you anywhere good. Why does this make your users uncomfortable? How can you work with them to achieve your product goals without undermining your relationship with them? Good luck!

> Simply explaining what is going on more “clear” and repeating it more often probably won’t get you anywhere good.

I've learned this lesson personally. Trying to be "clear" about my own perspective while ignoring what the other person feels.

"You don't like what you see? Impossible, you just can't see it. Let me make you see!"

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

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Post by odensc »

Raed667 wrote: post #115

I tried deleting my account and apparently it takes 30 days for some reason! That looks so shady! We're processing your request and should be done within 30 days. We will verify your request using the information associated with your account. Government identification may be required and we may ask you for more information in order to verify your identify. Any questions? Email us at privacy@triplebyte.com

> Government identification may be required

Ah yes, the classic "send us more of your PII to delete your information." I've ran into that too many times.

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

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Post by inimino »

ammon wrote: post #73
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…

Your Triplebyte profile will NOT contain any data/details about you or your job search that will undermine you at your current employer. We should have included a screenshot and more details in the email. I'll talk to my team about following up with more details tomorrow. We are talking about a lightweight profile, like your Stack Overflow or HN profile, to provide us the canvas to release badges. That's it.

The fact that this is the top comment and that folks who trusted you are seeing this email first on HN instead of in their inbox means you fucked up. The details of what trimmings you put on the email were not the fuckup.
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