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

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Post by rs23296008n1 »

wolfgang42 wrote: post #130
rs23296008n1 wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like a good experience. I don't have anything to do with them so color me surprised. I've got around 150 messages and more within last few hours of our little group - all very unhappy. The irc server #rant channel is getting loud. Edit: 150 and growing (growling?).

Yeah, up until a couple hours ago I had nothing but praise for them. They made the whole process go extremely smoothly, answered all the questions I had and gave me a ton of advice on the whole process, and their screening process was not only great from the my perspective but also gave me confidence in the quality of all their candidates. Then this happened.

You can't even permanently opt-out of "seeking opportunities". Be careful with that account. Could get you in some trouble depending on employer.

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

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Post by jacquesm »

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 think this is awful.

Classic non-apology apology. You should not be sorry that he thinks it is awful, you should be sorry that it is awful.

Nobody cares about how much work you put into what amounts to an illegal disclosure of personal data.

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

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Post by jacquesm »

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?

Pity to see this downvoted, yes it is!

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

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Post by mkagenius »

grizzles wrote: post #132
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…

It looks like emailing candidate.support@triplebyte.com is the only way to delete your account.

> candidate.support@triplebyte.com

Did they purposefully go out of the way to make this email address unguessable/non-standard/multi-word

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

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Post by wolfgang42 »

pmiller2 wrote: post #20
wolfgang42 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t think I should need to. If a company is going to unexpectedly publish information about me on short notice, the onus is on them to consider the implications and explain what they’re doing.

Okay, so, you're concerned about a potential privacy violation, but won't take steps to find out if there is one to begin with? I don't have a lot of sympathy for that position. Go and fill your TripleByte profile with misinformation if it suits you, I suppose. Edit: I missed that there's a privacy setting to make the profiles non-searchable. So, I guess you care enough to complain on the internet, but not enough to…

Just saw your edit. My emphasis continues to be on unexpected and short notice, with an added obscure (notice that you missed it too) and opt-out. I should not need to be prepared to jump at a moment’s notice any time someone decides they want to “accelerate [their] mission.” (And I am going to opt out—or, more likely, delete my account altogether—but that doesn’t mean I can’t also complain on the Internet.)

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

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Post by battery_cowboy »

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.

I am very glad that I sent you all a rude message requesting my account deletion a few years ago, this is an awful response to a huge issue. Good luck with the recruiting business when no one trusts you!

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

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Post by Larrikin »

What a shame. I hadn't used this site and it seemed like it may have been a good resource, but the backlash in this thread combined with the official response to the backlash and the dark patterns implemented in all parts of the process guarantees I'll never make an account.

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

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Post by sohamsankaran »

If I understand this correctly, if you 1) did a Triplebyte assessment, and 2) didn't do especially well, it would be possible to figure this out from your profile from the lack of badges.

This seems like the sort of information that people would want to keep private.

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