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I'm blown away that I can't go ahead and delete my account. Seriously? I opted out of this change, but at this point I don't trust that to be respected anyway. I really want my account deleted immediately.
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The hiring company has to follow a standardized flow for any candidates they get through Triplebyte. Triplebyte does their own evaluation and reports the results, and then each hiring company is only allowed to do a short non-technical[1] phone screen plus a single day of onsite interviews before either rejecting the candidate or extending an offer. [1] and they enforce this—they specifically ask the candidate to rep…
"Only" a single day of onsite (presumably technical) interviews? Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of Triplebyte, which is to "O(1)" your job search, i.e. avoid a long interview process with each company?
When I've gone to FAANG companies, I've gone through a lot more per company to receive an offer. Multiple visits to each campus, lunches, technical sessions, spanning potentially weeks or months. Overall I think TB saved a lot of time and I really enjoyed the process.
Of course, now they've really shot themselves in the foot.
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
https://hackaday.com/2014/11/18/thalmic-labs-shuts-down-free...
HaD wasn't hidden.. Thalmic was.
Dang has usually responded with noncommital responses like they never do that. But further requests for being transparent has fallen on deaf ears.
edit: and -1'ed. Is this because "my content sucks"? Is it because of 'offtopic'? Or is it a mod?
Considering karma here determines rights, rate limiting, mod-down, flagging, and more - these points do matter here. And of course the larger issue here is lack of transparency. In fact, with removal of mod scores, the site has gone down in transparency.
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…
No government ID required.
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.
You are Tinder/Ashley Madison stating you want to tackle Facebook and become a social network overnight by making all profiles made in private public.
And your tone deaf response is to keep repeating "WE ARE NOT PUTTING DETAILS JUST YOUR NAME".
Well, what should people that have been married for 15 years do?
While this is so disappointing is that you could have easily executed this by making it opt it. Possibly with a new name.
Email everyone and say we are starting byte.com - LinkedIn for Engineers. A load of people would have signed up and you take it from there.
But you wanted to take the lazy way out and think about today only.
Be smart and retreat.
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
> making a profile public meant making public that people were job searching
was repeatedly met with this response:
> we're not making any profile details public.
Which avoided what people were upset about. It's talking past the issue and I'm not sure what the expected outcome was, either from this original screw-up or the response.
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Clicked on the delete confirmation link, yet I can still login just fine?
There was another site that had 30 day deletion policy, but if you logged in during the 30 days then deletion was automatically cancelled. Squirrelly behavior obviously.
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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).