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

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Post by im3w1l »

g_p wrote: post #175
ammon wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your Triplebyte profile will NOT contain any data/details about you or your job search that will undermine you at your current employer. We should have included a screenshot and more details in the email. I'll talk to my team about following up with more details tomorrow. We are talking about a lightweight profile, like your Stack Overflow or HN profile, to provide us the canvas to release badges. That's it.

Regardless, this breaches GDPR by making data public and accessible to an unlimited audience by default. I hope (for your sake) that you don't have any users that can invoke their GDPR rights against you by virtue of their citizenship. For the sake of incentivising companies to do the right thing, however, I hope you do have some EU or UK citizen users who do litigate or have their data protection authority investiga…

Triplebyte is only targetting Americans afaik.

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

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Post by pmiller2 »

travisjungroth wrote: post #77
ammon wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your Triplebyte profile will NOT contain any data/details about you or your job search that will undermine you at your current employer. We should have included a screenshot and more details in the email. I'll talk to my team about following up with more details tomorrow. We are talking about a lightweight profile, like your Stack Overflow or HN profile, to provide us the canvas to release badges. That's it.

If someone goes from not having a profile to having one, you know they’re job hunting. It’s like saying “Your Tinder profile will NOT contain any data/details about you or your dating search that will undermine you in your current relationship.”

That's a false equivalence. You're talking about a business relationship versus an intimate personal relationship context.

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

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Post by gitgud »

I remember doing the Triplebyte quiz a few years ago and getting the response:

> "We really appreciate you taking the time to complete our quiz and coding problems. Unfortunately we couldn't accept your application this time."

It didn't show a score or anything, so I had no idea what I should improve on or what I was good at.

Pretty sure they hide the results so people can't cheat, but the whole experience left me feeling pretty inadequate and stupid for even trying...

After reading the comments from one of the founders in these threads, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

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

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Post by arcturus17 »

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.

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

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Post by insomniacity »

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…

I absolutely would have used TB for my next job search, when the time was right.

Now I absolutely would not. Dead simple.

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

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Post by pmiller2 »

prox wrote: post #176
ammon wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your Triplebyte profile will NOT contain any data/details about you or your job search that will undermine you at your current employer. We should have included a screenshot and more details in the email. I'll talk to my team about following up with more details tomorrow. We are talking about a lightweight profile, like your Stack Overflow or HN profile, to provide us the canvas to release badges. That's it.

Still, please don’t do things that need actual consent in IRL (making something that was private, public) If your new service is of true benefit, it will be used.

What makes you think anything on your TripleByte profile was ever "private." It was not. It was merely hidden from the majority of the world. If you have a TripleByte profile, presumably, at some point, you were job hunting, and likely advertising that fact to anyone you thought could help you.

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

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Post by marcus_holmes »

ammon wrote: post #73
ganstyles wrote: post #24

This is horrible, what a breach of trust. I used TB to stealthily interview for jobs, had a good experience. Recommended them to others. Now I see that if I hadn't seen this post, I wouldn't have known about this and those details would have been public, which had the potential to seriously undermine me at my current position. I'll opt out tomorrow, but according to others it sounds like the visibility link was somew…

Your Triplebyte profile will NOT contain any data/details about you or your job search that will undermine you at your current employer. We should have included a screenshot and more details in the email. I'll talk to my team about following up with more details tomorrow. We are talking about a lightweight profile, like your Stack Overflow or HN profile, to provide us the canvas to release badges. That's it.

I interviewed with TB a couple of years ago. Didn't do too great in the technical interview. Is that about to be public?

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

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Post by travisjungroth »

pmiller2 wrote: post #182
travisjungroth wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If someone goes from not having a profile to having one, you know they’re job hunting. It’s like saying “Your Tinder profile will NOT contain any data/details about you or your dating search that will undermine you in your current relationship.”

That's a false equivalence. You're talking about a business relationship versus an intimate personal relationship context.

My point is that just having the profile is data. He can’t predict what impact making this data public will have.
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