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

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Post by NightlyDev »

im3w1l wrote: post #181
g_p wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Regardless, this breaches GDPR by making data public and accessible to an unlimited audience by default. I hope (for your sake) that you don't have any users that can invoke their GDPR rights against you by virtue of their citizenship. For the sake of incentivising companies to do the right thing, however, I hope you do have some EU or UK citizen users who do litigate or have their data protection authority investiga…

Triplebyte is only targetting Americans afaik.

Not true, I ended up on triplebyte a few months ago as a result of ads, so I also have a profile, and I'm in Europe.

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

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Post by imafish »

ganstyles wrote: post #45
wolfgang42 wrote: post #41

I interviewed via Triplebyte last year, and thoroughly enjoyed the service. Before this I would have (and did) wholeheartedly recommended them to anyone; the process was great from the candidate’s perspective and I also have confidence in their ability to accurately evaluate candidates’ skills. After this announcement, though, I’m afraid that faith has completely crumbled. Even if Ammon had showed up in this thread a…

For what it's worth, this was what happened to me. They regularly send marketing emails and updates, which I skim from time to time. It wasn't until I saw this thread that I realized that one particular email out of the ( actually checks notes ) 62 (!!!) unsolicited emails they've sent me in the last 12 months was this important.

Me three.

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

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Post by NightlyDev »

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…

The solution is simple. Make your profile something they don't want on their site. Link to porn, change your profile picture to porn and so on. It's effective

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

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Post by cameronbrown »

pmiller2 wrote: post #198
travisjungroth wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My point is that just having the profile is data. He can’t predict what impact making this data public will have.

Companies that are worth a shit don't retaliate against people for looking at other opportunities. That's precisely why your Tinder example is not just off base, it's wrong. Another way to look at it: either you're a replaceable cog, or you're essential to running the business. If you're essential, they're going to do whatever they can to keep you. If you're replaceable, they probably don't care that much whether you…

It's additional risk that nobody asked for.

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

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Post by m11a »

odensc wrote: post #119
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.

It's a horrible way companies try to discourage data subjects from exercising their rights.

This is not lawful under both the GDPR and the CCPA. If Triplebyte follow through with their request against an EU or California resident, they'd be breaking data protection laws.

If comments here are any indication, too many people, being unaware of their rights, may fall for it though.

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

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Post by NightlyDev »

blunte wrote: post #201

I interviewed for their generalist interviewer offer that they were advertising heavily a couple of years ago. I aced the lengthy and nontrivial generalist quiz, and then waited for a callback. Two weeks later I sent a polite email to check in. No reply. Repeat two weeks later. About two months later I received a reply that said the positions were filled, but that they would love to offer me as a candidate to US comp…

"I aced the lengthy and nontrivial generalist quiz"

I actually think everyone aced it and ends up in the 80-100 percentile group. "This site says I know more than 80-100% of users" is good for word of mouth marketing.

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

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Post by JadeNB »

toyg wrote: post #179
localcrisis wrote: post #129

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Opt-In doesn't help them achieve their product goals. Triplebyte as founded isn't working so they're trying to take a valuable asset they have (engineers looking for jobs) to compete with linkedin The problem with bootstrapping a linkedin competitor is the same chicken-and-egg problem with networks generally. You need people on it for people to join it. What Triplebyte wants is your identity public. That's the produc…

> How many people who were searching for a job without telling their company are going to opt-in to make that public? I think that's the real issue: timing . The only time this can work is when someone has just resigned or joined a new company, so they can (and are actually willing to) "legitimately" pump up the volume about themselves. So make it an easy opt-in triggered by these events. Any triplebyte candidate tha…

> Any triplebyte candidate that "closes the deal" should get opted-in automatically. Anybody without an ongoing work relationship, should get opted-in automatically.

Am I misunderstanding you? If you "get opted in automatically", then it's no longer opt-in; it's opt-out.

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

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Post by aidos »

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…

Geeks don’t dislike LinkedIn because the formatting isn’t right, they dislike it because of the dark patterns. If that’s the measure with which you’re trying to compete with LinkedIn, it’s safe to call this one a win.

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

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Post by josephg »

g_p wrote: post #228
dirtydroog wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a European in Europe and seem to have a triplebyte account

In which case, it sounds like at the moment they carry out a "data processing operation" to make your data public, you would have standing to make a formal complaint to your local data protection authority. Article 18 restriction of processing can apply here. Art. 25 "Data protection by design and by default" would seem to be relevant as well. The section I alluded to above is the latter half of 25(2), saying "In par…

I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice but ... I don’t think the European government has legal standing to fine triplebyte. Triplebyte doesn’t have offices, employees or customers in Europe.

A European visiting the US and interacting with an American business does so under the protection of US law, not EU law. This is complicated in the case of Facebook and google because they also do business in Europe, so European courts can fine their European branch offices. But Triplebyte has no such EU presence that the European courts could pursue. And they don’t advertise European jobs. I suspect an EU citizen interacts with triplebyte legally the same way they would if they went to a cafe in SF while on vacation.

The opposite would be crazy. If triplebyte can be fined by the EU, that would also mean the government of Australia or China or Russia could arbitrarily levy fines against any US company if one of their citizens interacted with a US website one time. And everyone would put geo blocks on their websites to protect from liability.

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

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Post by whymauri »

marcus_holmes wrote: post #187
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.

I interviewed with TB a couple of years ago. Didn't do too great in the technical interview. Is that about to be public?

Same here. It's annoying that a technical aptitude test that I took when I was a freshman in college might now be publicly viewable as a benchmark for my skills.

And I know the e-mail says that results will only be shared if you did well. But, if you have a profile on TribleByte and there's no signal on your profile that you did well, the only logical conclusion is that you did not do well.

I'll be deleting my account, anyways. I didn't ask for this.

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