Wow, in the EU one email to the local data protection office would set them on fire for this.
Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
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#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
Let them squirm. Get your teammates to update to and keep management nervous and focused on improving the employee's lives. Take it even to starting a union if needed. You don't give your time to an employer, you trade it, and in our modern society we have a gap in the market power of labor. Only way to get it is to reclaim it.
All of that is reasonable, but none of it works unless you can get ~everyone in your org to do it.
Conservatively, only takes about 15%.
Some findings show as low as 3.5%
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35...
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#213Wow, in the EU one email to the local data protection office would set them on fire for this.
I was thinking this too. I’m very thankful to live in the EU and have the right to have my PII data deleted.
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#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
It does sometimes feel like we're missing out on these "reasonable company with reasonable expectations" type businesses and funding and crashing a ton of companies that would otherwise maybe live on reasonably?
What is the line from The Social Network? "Its not cool to be a millionaire, its cool to be a billionaire" or something along those lines. I think a lot of people aren't happy with being just very wealthy I suppose.
> What is the line from The Social Network? "Its not cool to be a millionaire, its cool to be a billionaire" or something along those lines. I think a lot of people aren't happy with being just very wealthy I suppose.
I think the founders of those companies would be fine with the millionaire outcome, as it beats crashing and burning in pursuit of billions.
The problem is the VC mindset.
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#216If anybody doesn't think this is a problem, I overheard managers talking about a 3rd-party tool that finds "at risk employees" which they didn't define but said it included signals such as "they updated their linked in recently" as a signal that they may be on the job hunt. You better believe that data brokers are both interested in buying and selling any sort of information around your employment/job/interview behav…
I've never really seen retention risk tooling used for evil in the way that most HN readers seem to think it is; it's kind of interesting and eye-opening to me to see the strong negative sentiment towards it. I've worked in management at companies with risk-based retention tools, and I've always seen them used as just that... retention tools. If anything, getting a high risk score as a high performer would usually be…
The basic assumption at play here is that data about you that you don't control is likely going to end up being used against you, which I think isn't unreasonable. Flawed risk metrics, even if they are only used to benefit those who are flagged, may still turn out to be unfavorable for some employees (eg for the false negatives).
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#217Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know of two multinational conglomerates (one Indian, the other Argentinian) that requires all newcomers to post a GlassDoor review and a LinkedIn post praising the company, the onboarding gifts, and such things. Both are absolute hell to work for unless you're upper management, according to acquaintances that have been there and climbed outside the bog of low-level positions. It's not a lot, but it's weird it happe…
I’ve never flexed my new positions or anything like that, which seems to be widespread nowadays to seek validation on social media. I’ll never make a post about a company even if I end up loving my time there, it’s just not going to happen. It looks fake and everyone knows that.
> It looks fake and everyone knows that.
Sometimes I wonder if being fake is seen as pejorative as it used to be. I mean the whole "social media influencer" thing is super fake, but people seem to eat that shit up and a depressing number of kids aspire to be one.
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#218Earlier quoted context omitted.
Employers and recruiters are always bewildered when I say I don't have a LinkedIn account, or a public Github profile (I have a few tiny open source projects I maintain, but they are all pseudonymous) - and this is exactly why. I don't want people creeping any kind of "profile" of me. Ever.
My take is exactly the opposite: the more people who know that I exist, the more likely I am to hear of jobs that might interest me. Let them creep all over my profile: so far the only downside is that I have a pile of messages to sort through and say "no, thanks" to.
I have a very old linkedin account that has 10 years-outdated info. The company I'm supposedly working for does not exist anymore.
As soon as I would even touch one word in my profile, a pile of recruiters would be triggered instantly. From experience I know that these recruiters have zero added value for me and often even their customer. On the contrary even, they have a tendency to try to fill any job with any qualification, because when they succeed, they hit a jackpot.
Job vacancies are present on job sites like 'Indeed'. It is very easy to set an appropriate filter and just start sending out your CV to companies.
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#219> Glassdoor now requires your real name and will add it to older accounts without your consent if they learn it, and your only option is to delete your account.
weird. I just logged in, and I can't confirm that this is happening. all of my reviews are still properly anonymous. my account knows my name and my email address, of course, but it does not appear anywhere on the site where I don't expect it to.
> So all users will now receive a Fishbowl account once they login to Glassdoor
I'm not real sure what this means - as far as I can tell, 'bowls' are just the equivalent of fb groups, and while there are a few automatically added to your account initially, you can just leave them, and proceed with an empty list of 'bowls' you follow (or whatever the terminology is)
what am I missing here?
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#220If anybody doesn't think this is a problem, I overheard managers talking about a 3rd-party tool that finds "at risk employees" which they didn't define but said it included signals such as "they updated their linked in recently" as a signal that they may be on the job hunt. You better believe that data brokers are both interested in buying and selling any sort of information around your employment/job/interview behav…
I've never really seen retention risk tooling used for evil in the way that most HN readers seem to think it is; it's kind of interesting and eye-opening to me to see the strong negative sentiment towards it. I've worked in management at companies with risk-based retention tools, and I've always seen them used as just that... retention tools. If anything, getting a high risk score as a high performer would usually be…
Well the article is about glassdoor, which is where you write reviews.
You better believe that if databrokers will buy information on whether you updated linked in that they'd also buy information on whether you gave the company a 1 star review.
Heck, you can even post your salary to glassdoor, so maybe your next employer would buy that information so they know the least they could offer you.