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

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Post by dep_b »

Personally I actually even asked them to make my profile publicly accessible as I hoped it would help a bit to prevent having to take all of those unnecessary tests, again and again every time I apply somewhere. Same goes for my Toptal profile, you have to pass a bar to get in there so it has value. People repeatedly mentioned me they found me there. The interview I had with Triplebyte was pretty good in my opinion, got great feedback from the test and I generally felt it was a reliable company.

It's a pity they are starting to do stuff like this. I'm not sure if it's a PR blunder or a pattern emerging but the damage has been done.

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

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Post by wrecursion »

Wow....

Good thing this was on HN, because I marked TB as spam quite some time ago, and would have never seen this email.

Now it's going to take them 30 days to delete my account and I may need to provide Government ID to complete this process???? LMFAO. That is outrageous.

This is vile and disgusting. I hope TB crumbles to dust for this betrayal of its users.

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

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Post by sbashyal »

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

Talking about dark patterns, the email was sent after 5:00pm on a Friday before the long week-end.

Triplebyte team knew that their users were not going to like it and did their best to slip this through.

Triplebyte went from being a respectable company helping skilled hackers by-pass white-board interviews to being a prime example of unethical tech company in one stroke.

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

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Post by boneitis »

aidos wrote: post #204

Wow. Thanks for this. I ignored the email because Triplebyte just feels a bit spammy to me now so I mentally block it out. Have logged in to stop this from happening and currently apparently I'm "Open to discussing new opportunities", which is news to me. On trying to change it to "Not interested in any new opportunities" there's a dropdown that says "I’d be open to new opportunities in:" and most you can set it to i…

Thank you. I was scouring the page in a frenzy and couldn't figure out it was tucked away in the Profile URL section.

Managed to get my profile from 38 to "100% complete" in the process during my attempts to wipe out my data.

Christ.

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

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Post by mchan889 »

jacquesm wrote: post #328
aidos wrote: post #204

Wow. Thanks for this. I ignored the email because Triplebyte just feels a bit spammy to me now so I mentally block it out. Have logged in to stop this from happening and currently apparently I'm "Open to discussing new opportunities", which is news to me. On trying to change it to "Not interested in any new opportunities" there's a dropdown that says "I’d be open to new opportunities in:" and most you can set it to i…

The whole government ID thingy is really beyond the pale. Just imagine: you never needed it to sign up in the first place. So now after proving to be not worthy of your trust, tone deaf and ethically deficient, to delete your account you need to give them even more information . This company deserves to die.

Give it time, an EU citizen who applied will eventually make GDPR complaint. At which point, it's game over.

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

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Post by ebertucc »

Zekio wrote: post #339
Jommi wrote: post #337

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's pretty common actually. They will delete all your data, but that requires strong authentication, which government ID is. That's how it works with gdpr in 90% of cases.

Account removal should be just as easy as it was to sign up

I agree that it should be just as easy to suspend your account as it was to sign up, but irretrievable deletion should be harder.

Companies ideally want to stop fraud at both ends, but I would be more upset if, for example, my Airbnb account were fraudulently deleted than if someone fraudulently made one in my name.

Granted, deletion requires access to the account in question, so maybe that's enough of a hurdle already? In that sense it's already harder to delete than create.

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

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Post by guessmyname »

iandanforth wrote: post #327
peteretep wrote: post #215

The fundamental disconnect here is that Ammon seems to think this data belongs to him, for uses he deems appropriate, rather than belonging to his users. This works for Facebook and LinkedIn because of network effects, but not for some random staffing agency with a tech gimmick. If Adecco or MichaelPage did this it’d attract the attention of ambitious public prosecutors worldwide. It’s almost a shame, as the idea its…

What's Digg again?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg

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

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Post by TAForObvReasons »

nabilhat wrote: post #343

Assume for a moment I'm a bad-faith, nosy employer who reads HN on a Saturday morning. All it takes for me to match up my little stack of current employee's resumes is a person's city of residence, skills, and employment dates. If I'm that kind of employer, that's enough to raise my red flags. If prior employers are named outright, that's a 100% ID. If employment dates are paired with employment location, that's a 10…

> those comments don't get flagged out of future HN search results.

Triplebyte is a YC company and HN is a YC site, so economic interests are aligned with nuking highly critical comments

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