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Learnings of a CEO: Matt Schulman, Pave, on Hiring

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Re: Learnings of a CEO: Matt Schulman, Pave, on Hiring

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Post by purpleblue »

I talked to Pave last year and bowed out after hearing how they do business. Their business model and their techniques could have changed since I last talked to them.

At the time, customer companies give all their compensation data to Pave, including employee names, and then they use that to create compensation data across the list of their customers and share it. They were targeting startups, but I don't know if they have expanded since.

If I remember correctly, because they have your name, they also scrape LinkedIn data about you and try to get as much information about you as possible like job titles, etc. I wasn't comfortable with this so I bowed out. I'm not sure how much control employees have to prevent this sharing to Pave, because I would not want my entire salary history to be shared with prospective employers so that they could definitively say "Well, this person got paid X in their previous position, we shouldn't pay more than 5% above that."

They may have changed their data policy, like I mentioned I haven't talked to them since last year.

Re: Learnings of a CEO: Matt Schulman, Pave, on Hiring

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Post by esel2k »

I don’t like the try-and-hire approach, we have trial periods in europe for this. And even these don’t really give you as employee the free choice as finding a job takes time. If I commit to a job then I expect them employer to his part: Pension fund, insurance, onboard etc and not have unfair some leverage over me.
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