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Re: Show HN: Cilantro - Chat 1:1 with employees at companies you'd like to work at

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Post by rtao »

guyht wrote: post #23
ycskyspeak wrote: post #16

This is an excellent idea. Kudos! Would love to see this grow and evolve as a primary way for prospective employees to do their due diligence. Quick Question - How do you guys ensure that the employees are actually employees at Zynga etc. once it expands beyond friends and family?

I also think this is a fantastic idea but further to your comment, its also impossible to determine if you are talking to an employee in a position you may apply for, or someone on the HR department who is trying to attract talent and so may give you a biased view.

Thanks! We definitely want to be able to have more relevant matches in the future as we scale and grow.

Re: Show HN: Cilantro - Chat 1:1 with employees at companies you'd like to work at

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Post by rubiquity »

eseehausen wrote: post #18
rubiquity wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How can you possibly hate cilantro? It's smells so incredibly fresh and amazing, plus you can get more than you can eat before it goes bad for like 49 cents at any grocery store.

There is a genetic predisposition toward finding it terrible. That's like asking a colorblind person "how can you mix up red and green; they're totally different?"

Interesting.

Re: Show HN: Cilantro - Chat 1:1 with employees at companies you'd like to work at

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Post by rickhanlonii »

rubiquity wrote: post #15
jb55 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am one of those people. The worst part of eating out at restaurants is finding out at the last moment that they put cilantro on everything, making it inedible. It might as well be called tryratpoison.com. The site is not as unpleasant as cilantro so I will overlook it for now.

How can you possibly hate cilantro? It's smells so incredibly fresh and amazing, plus you can get more than you can eat before it goes bad for like 49 cents at any grocery store.

Because, to him, it tastes like soap.

> In the largest genome-wide association study of cilantro preference to date, 23andMe scientists compared genetic data from more than 25,000 individuals with European ancestry who declared whether they liked the taste of fresh cilantro or whether they thought cilantro had a soapy taste. We found that people with the AA genotype at rs7107418 had higher odds of perceiving a soapy taste in cilantro and higher odds of disliking the herb compared to those with the AG genotype, and people with the GG genotype had lower odds of perceiving a soapy taste or disliking cilantro. This SNP is close to a number of genes coding for olfactory receptors, one of which (OR6A2) is involved in detecting certain chemical compounds called aldehydes that are key components of cilantro aroma.

https://www.23andme.com/about/factoid/cilantro/

Re: Show HN: Cilantro - Chat 1:1 with employees at companies you'd like to work at

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Post by jacalata »

dnautics wrote: post #28
Hovertruck wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No offense but I don't see how that matters at all in this context.

because if someone said, hey go to this site "trycilantro" to help find jobs - I would immediately have an aversion to it and the likelihood of me going there would be lower. I would also have an aversion to try helping out on that site. You've lost ~10% of your client base right there.

Wow, that increased from 5% to 10% in half an hour! Or are you suggesting either that cilantro aversion is higher among tech workers, or that people who don't dislike cilantro will also be put off by the name?

I think if Wii and iPad can get past those names then this'll be fine.

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