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Not necessarily. But what if you didn't have one yesterday, but you do have one today? What if you have only worked for one employer since TripleByte was founded (2015)? What if the only place you've worked is a startup of which you're a cofounder? If you can't think of a way in which a privacy leak can have consequences, that doesn't mean there aren't any.
What if I have? How does that imply anything other than that I took a test?
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
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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.
I'm pretty sure they'll leave. Might not even file any paperwork on that.
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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…
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Thanks for sharing! They told me there would be a 30m pitch call followed by an all day of on-sites that were explicitly not whiteboarding sessions or technical assessments . Also, I still did have several back and forth calls with companies I was connected with - it wasn’t just the one half-hour call and then on-sites. Here’s the exact email from TripleByte upon passing the quiz: “ Here's how it works: 1. We'll show…
Most companies define their process as something like Phone Screen (recruiter) -> Technical Screen (engineer via phone or take-home project) -> On-Site (mix of culture + tech). Triplebyte helps you skip those first two steps. I agree that the terminology could be more clear, but it seems like they borrowed existing lingo from recruiters here.
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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)
Does it matter what you think here though? Your customers gave you their data under one pretense, why do you think you can ethically change that pretense without discussing it with your customers? Said another way, you entered into a business deal with your customers and unilaterally changed the terms. I feel like if someone did that to you, you would be upset as well. People in this thread have carefully laid out th…
This just jumped out at me. Doesn't every agreement/TOS document these days say they can unilaterally change the terms at any time and your only recourse is to stop using the service?
I mean, I guess my point is not that it's ok, but that it emphasizes how "agreements" in our society don't seem to be actual agreements and we go around with the certainty that most will never be enforced, but then people don't always agree.
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> 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
That's a natural assumption, but if you think a step further it's not hard to see why it's false: you shouldn't optimize for local optima, especially if doing that would ruin your global optimum. When you have a goose that lays golden eggs, don't risk the goose for an egg. YC's economic interest in HN is having it be a happy, thriving community. That dominates all other considerations put together. A fast way to ruin…
I think it's a really, really great response. YC community is indeed very special, and I am often surprised that over these years, it keep attracting high caliber people and has a high signal/noise ratio, while at the same time remains a pleasant community that favors civilized discussion.
Moderating is a thankless job, but please rest assured that many people here value your efforts, even if we don't verbalize this gratitude often.
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An employer wouldn’t fire me for having an HN or AngelList account.
An honorable employer wouldn't. Even honorable employers can have HR staff who are not.
I disagree. HR reports to the CEO, just like everyone else. If the CEO tolerates HR (or any department of the company) being dishonorable, the entire company is dishonorable.