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

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Post by dmak »

jobhunter01 wrote: post #282
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…

(posting from a throwaway account, but long time HN user). Well, I was just about to go through your process, since you announced that you are opening to remotes (I'm in the EU), but now I've requested that you delete my profile. No way I want my current employer to know I'm looking, especially in the current climate where job hunting is difficult. As other people have mentioned, you now have a deeper problem than en…

How did you request your profile to be deleted?

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

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Post by dmak »

arcturus17 wrote: post #184

Wow, what a dumpster fire. The CEO coming in here and trying to defend that this is actually a great idea is only making things worse. I'm guessing they don't operate in Europe, because this would be a massive violation of many European and national privacy regulations. Maybe they should take a hint from this - the fact that they can pull it off in the US doesn't mean it's morally acceptable.

I can't find even the place to delete my account. It seems like it's not even GDPR compliant which is the standard these days for data compliance.

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

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Post by egberts1 »

scandox wrote: post #197
egberts1 wrote: post #79

Thank God, I used a fake profile. I sailed the interview to 2nd stage but they couldn’t figure out how to interview a deaf SW engineer.

Is that a difficult problem? I'd be interested to hear what they got stuck on. I guess I naively imagine that in a world of text chat and voice to text it would be pretty doable.

They only initiate that phone call. I’ve explained that I can arrange for an interpreter by my side if they would give me a phone number in which I could initiate the call. But ... nope.

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

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Post by sulam »

If you, like most people in this thread, find this incredibly unethical and/or potentially damaging to your relationship with your current employer and as a result you are trying to delete your account, do one thing first:

Obfuscate your information before you hit the delete button!

Change your name, change your address, change the email to a throwaway, etc.

Yes, they -might- delete your information when you ask, but do they deserve your trust that they will get this right? If you are deleting your account you implicitly are saying you don’t trust their ability to manage this situation the way you would.

Keep in mind one likely outcome of this event is that they go out of business. Whoever buys their assets may well end up with a trove of data that includes your details.

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

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Post by jbotz »

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…

I just tried to delete my account and in addition to the thing about government ID it said:

>> We're processing your request and should be done within 30 days.

30 days to delete an account? I guess they have a lot of account deletion requests to process all of the sudden!

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

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Post by prepend »

rurp wrote: post #454
prepend wrote: post #284

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The rhetorical technique that annoys me the most plays out like this... Me: Thing You: I hate that thing Me: You don’t understand Thing. Here’s Thing explained. You: I understand Thing, I still hate it. Me: You don’t understand Thing. When you understand it, you’ll like it. (Repeat) Sometimes this is stupidity thinking that understanding is missing, but I think it’s usually shady just so they have something to say to…

There needs to be a catchy name for this type of interaction. I loathe it as well and it's annoyingly common. Companies that rely on this behavior should be called out repeatedly.

Willful misunderstanding? Confusion redirect? Defray to diffuse?

The technique seems super common now, and I’ve been expecting to run into it in some communications training, but haven’t yet.

I feel like there’s some crisis PR tactics this fits into that involves “Never disagree, redirect and ignore.” It diffuses criticism and makes it hard to argue.

It seems related to when I see a complaint on a review site that’s been responded to with “I’m the manager, please call me.” It doesn’t resolve the issue, but it shows that someone is doing something, so it diffuses pile on because it stops complaints of ignoring customers.

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

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Post by Xelbair »

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…

Isn't this basically a GDPR violation as you didn't acquire consent for sharing data with such purpose(public display of a profile)?

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

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Post by yojo »

dang wrote: post #462
TAForObvReasons wrote: post #360

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

Great explanation! I’m surprised you didn’t mention the two reasons I always thought YC pays for my news:

1) YC company friendly marketing channel. Reasonably good posts from YC companies get upvotes here, which means eyeballs and potential customers or users.

2) YC company recruiting channel. Related to above, since many posts end in “we’re hiring”, but there’s also the explicit time-decaying recruiting posts that show up on the front page.

Are these not concerns? Or just secondary to increasing startup formation generally?

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

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Post by Xelbair »

sulam wrote: post #554

If you, like most people in this thread, find this incredibly unethical and/or potentially damaging to your relationship with your current employer and as a result you are trying to delete your account, do one thing first: Obfuscate your information before you hit the delete button! Change your name, change your address, change the email to a throwaway, etc. Yes, they -might- delete your information when you ask, but…

and what does stop them from using backups with unchanged data anyways?

At least for internal/statistical purposes.

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

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Post by 7fYZ7mJh3RNKNaG »

dmak wrote: post #551
jobhunter01 wrote: post #282

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(posting from a throwaway account, but long time HN user). Well, I was just about to go through your process, since you announced that you are opening to remotes (I'm in the EU), but now I've requested that you delete my profile. No way I want my current employer to know I'm looking, especially in the current climate where job hunting is difficult. As other people have mentioned, you now have a deeper problem than en…

How did you request your profile to be deleted?

https://triplebyte.com/privacy-center
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