My side project: Rank your tech company based on culture • Hacker News Board

Re: My side project: Rank your tech company based on culture

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Post by alukima » Wed, Mar 05, 2014, 3:41 AM UTC

Karunamon wrote: post #3

I like the idea (kinda like a no-frills Glassdoor), but the moment I went to plug in my company, the first thing that pops up is a LinkedIn permissions page. No prior explanation of what the data will be used for, no assurance that my information will be anonymous, nothing. Closed the tab. Please consider supporting alternate signup methods for those of us that don't want personal information tied to reviews. I know…

Agreed. I just deleted my LinkedIn due to privacy concerns so I couldn't use this if I wanted to.

Re: My side project: Rank your tech company based on culture

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Post by madisonhamman » Wed, Mar 05, 2014, 5:00 AM UTC

Karunamon wrote: post #3

I like the idea (kinda like a no-frills Glassdoor), but the moment I went to plug in my company, the first thing that pops up is a LinkedIn permissions page. No prior explanation of what the data will be used for, no assurance that my information will be anonymous, nothing. Closed the tab. Please consider supporting alternate signup methods for those of us that don't want personal information tied to reviews. I know…

EXCELLENT feedback - I really appreciate it. We piggy-backed LinkedIn to "build on the shoulders of giants" but agree the explanation is necessary. Thanks again!

Re: My side project: Rank your tech company based on culture

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Post by codezero » Wed, Mar 05, 2014, 5:01 AM UTC

madisonhamman wrote: post #12

Karunamon wrote: post #3

I like the idea (kinda like a no-frills Glassdoor), but the moment I went to plug in my company, the first thing that pops up is a LinkedIn permissions page. No prior explanation of what the data will be used for, no assurance that my information will be anonymous, nothing. Closed the tab. Please consider supporting alternate signup methods for those of us that don't want personal information tied to reviews. I know…

EXCELLENT feedback - I really appreciate it. We piggy-backed LinkedIn to "build on the shoulders of giants" but agree the explanation is necessary. Thanks again!

At this point, you might consider a more manual verification of people. Do things that don't scale, remember? :)

From experience, you can manually verify a lot and have a very few false positives. You might just require a bit more person to person interaction.

Re: My side project: Rank your tech company based on culture

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Post by madisonhamman » Wed, Mar 05, 2014, 5:01 AM UTC

GeneralMayhem wrote: post #4

Karunamon wrote: post #3

I like the idea (kinda like a no-frills Glassdoor), but the moment I went to plug in my company, the first thing that pops up is a LinkedIn permissions page. No prior explanation of what the data will be used for, no assurance that my information will be anonymous, nothing. Closed the tab. Please consider supporting alternate signup methods for those of us that don't want personal information tied to reviews. I know…

Seconded. If you want people to be honest about their employers, tying it to the one place employers are almost certain to see it is a little daunting. I understand if you want to make sure they're actually employees of the place they're talking about, but (a) you should say that, and (b) what's to stop me from faking my LinkedIn?

Thanks for the feedback! We're adding a bit about the LinkedIn verification. For this MVP it is an easy way to check (within reason) someone actually works at a place. Sure, they may lie to linkedin, but for the MVP it was an 80/20 decision.

Re: My side project: Rank your tech company based on culture

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Post by madisonhamman » Wed, Mar 05, 2014, 5:03 AM UTC

michaelochurch wrote: post #6

LinkedIn permwall. No thanks. Flagged.

Hey Michael,

Sorry for the lack of explanation. We're adding some copy to explain why we require a linked in verification. Basically, it was of the few ways we can check where someone works without sending an email to their work email - hence keeping it 100% anon.

We're working on it!

-Madison

Re: My side project: Rank your tech company based on culture

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Post by madisonhamman » Wed, Mar 05, 2014, 5:04 AM UTC

synaesthesisx wrote: post #5

Neat concept....keep in mind that culture and fit can vary from person to person and you're going to have a range of experiences. What's important is organizing companies based on their culture so people can match themselves better.

Thanks for the feedback. This is our MVP so we're interesting in all things related to transparent HR practices...

-Madison

Re: My side project: Rank your tech company based on culture

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Post by madisonhamman » Wed, Mar 05, 2014, 5:04 AM UTC

Ave wrote: post #2

The white header/light grey body text is very hard to read against that background image.

Roger that. Thanks for the feedback.

Re: My side project: Rank your tech company based on culture

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Post by mattdeboard » Wed, Mar 05, 2014, 5:05 AM UTC

Karunamon wrote: post #3

I like the idea (kinda like a no-frills Glassdoor), but the moment I went to plug in my company, the first thing that pops up is a LinkedIn permissions page. No prior explanation of what the data will be used for, no assurance that my information will be anonymous, nothing. Closed the tab. Please consider supporting alternate signup methods for those of us that don't want personal information tied to reviews. I know…

Yep, totes.

I deleted my LinkedIn account months ago. This service could be pretty useful/interesting/funny to share around the office, but requiring LinkedIn is a killer (in a bad way) for me.

Re: My side project: Rank your tech company based on culture

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Post by madisonhamman » Wed, Mar 05, 2014, 5:08 AM UTC

dapole wrote: post #10

bhauer wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm no fan of LinkedIn, but flagging seems a bit harsh. I'm not interested in registering, but looking at the sign-up page, it seems signing in with LinkedIn is optional, is it not?

No, it actually says you need to sign in with LinkedIn to verify you work for the company you say you do(also not hard to fake so don't know why they insist, my bet is this is a LinkedIn employee). No thanks, and no guarantee that your info isn't shared etc. This seems like it has a high potential for abuse.

We'll add the guarantee your info won't and can't be shared.

No account is Candid required, we simply use the LinkedIn API to check that the current position for that would-be reviewer has a current position at the company they are trying to review.

As you mention someone could scam that of course. We're working on ways to get even better data (i.e. real current employees).

This is our MVP and we wanted to get people scoring companies as frictionless as possible.

Re: My side project: Rank your tech company based on culture

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Post by madisonhamman » Wed, Mar 05, 2014, 5:09 AM UTC

dinkumthinkum wrote: post #9

michaelochurch wrote: post #6

LinkedIn permwall. No thanks. Flagged.

Flagged is a bit much. It is a fair criticism to make that requiring LinkedIn is probably very inappropriate and probably completely counter productive but that is enough I think.

Thanks for commenting! we're adding an explanation for the linkedin stuff shortly.