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

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Post by anewdirection »

kerkeslager wrote: post #334
iovrthoughtthis wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

I strongly object to characterizing this situation as a PR disaster. The problem isn't that TripleByte is perceived as doing something unethical. The problem is that what TripleByte is doing is unethical.

Just because it is an ethical disaster does not mean it is not also a PR disaster. It looks a lot like both to me, one followed closely by the other.

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

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Post by erikpukinskis »

NightlyDev wrote: post #246
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.

Just have 2 TaskRabbits take the test for every coder, and suddenly the 50th percentile becomes the 80th.

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

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Post by optimiz3 »

heliodor wrote: post #324
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…

Since account deletion is such a hurdle, edit your profile to replace your name and info with profanity and let's see how Google and the various content filters will like that once the profile goes public.

Replace the information with that of a SDN (Specially Designated National)* if you really want to cause trouble!

*Don't actually do this unless you want a visit from a 3 letter agency.

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

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Post by fhgkhljl »

"Our mission is to build an open, valuable, and skills-based credential for all engineers" - this is literally a copy of the other yc startup hackerrank. In fact their ceo said at a public event the skills-based credential will be called a hackerscore. Every developer will have a public hackerscore. Companies would pay for developers based on hackerscore. So like if your hackerscore was 1500 you would get offers for $150,000, if your hackerscore was 2000, you get the $200,000 offers, so on. Sort of like an SAT or GRE score. You could link your hackerscore to your hackernews account for more karma. Like if you made smart comments on hackernews your hackerscore would go up by a few points. If you solved more puzzles on hackerrank your hackerscore goes up. If you help more people on Stackoverflow your hackerscore goes up.

Are the triplebyte guys calling it hackerscore as well or is it triplerank or some such? I personally think the underlying motivation is sound but first you need to earn the trust of the community.

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

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Post by bialpio »

Zekio wrote: post #65
karterk wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please make this opt-in and not opt-out.

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

Not really. Depending on what you mean by European users, GDPR may not apply here (if GDPR was what you were alluding to).

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

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Post by ss3000 »

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…

At the moment of writing I had to go to page 3 of the comments to find the CEO's response:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23280120

Piggybacking on this comment and linking here so people can more easily see how completely tone-deaf it was.

More from his comment history here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ammon

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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

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Post by brabel »

anewdirection wrote: post #408
mchan889 wrote: post #356

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

In theory. Has any company seen the pointy end of GDPR yet?

Yes, several every day: https://www.enforcementtracker.com/

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

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Post by ss3000 »

inimino wrote: post #390

Ammon's previous venture was Socialcam [1], of which Wikipedia says > Socialcam's popularity on Facebook suddenly increased in the spring of 2012, via unusually aggressive actions to induce contacts to join. It was criticized as "invasive" and a "bully" by many reviewers, for sharing what users were viewing without them realizing that that would happen. It was only after articles like "Why I Hate Socialcam Even If It…

Who knew Triplebyte was another social media company in stealth mode all this time?

Brilliant launch strategy, coming out of stealth and dragging all of its users out of stealth along with it. /s

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

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Post by bit_logic »

This behavior from Triplebyte is unacceptable. If you live in California, there is CCPA now with financial penalties for companies that don’t comply. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Consumer_Privacy_Ac... It’s similar to Europe’s GDPR. CCPA allows sending a deletion request and they will be fined if they don’t comply.

Looking at their privacy page: https://triplebyte.com/privacy

It mentions these options for deleting:

https://triplebyte.com/privacy-center

privacy@triplebyte.com

By CCPA law, they must acknowledge and comply with a deletion request within a time limit. The fines can add up very quickly per user request if they don't comply.

EDIT: Updating my post since I looked at the deletion request forms for some other sites and it seems similar. Probably try the form first and if it doesn't work, then the email.

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