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Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
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Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nah, it’s written. It’s an iOS app, and Apple requires a well-written policy. Also, I have gotten used to doing things this way. I’ve been writing software for this particular demographic, for over 20 years.
I'm incredibly curious about what this demographic is.
Won’t mention it in public, but it’s not a deep secret, or anything.
Feel free to drop me a line.
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
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I have a very old linkedin account that has 10 years-outdated info.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 qual…
It's even easier to do nothing and have people contact you.
I got my current job because a recruiter cold-called me about my Linked-In profile. It was a perfect match for a position she was trying to fill.
I wasn't looking, but it wasn't hard to persuade me to switch either.
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
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I have a very old linkedin account that has 10 years-outdated info.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 qual…
I clearly need to do a better job with my profile, because recruiters never bother me.
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#235Earlier quoted context omitted.
Remember when Yelp did that? And yet, somehow not dead.
I basically stopped reading Amazon and Yelp reviews. They do more harm then good. Now it's all about human-curated information. Find someone you trust - on social media, a new site, or a newsletter. Get the info from them. Should I eat here? Should I buy this product? Etc. With restaurants it's tricky - sometimes you just need to take a chance. There is some old-school magic in that.
> I basically stopped reading Amazon and Yelp reviews
I've done that too and am sure many people here on HN realized how gameable and gamed they are but sadly it still works for the masses who fall into these traps like flies to a candle. When these this kind of deception will stop working we will have reached a total trust of 0.
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#236Earlier 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.
> Let them squirm. The risk here isn't that your snooping boss feels a bit uncomfortable. The risk is that your snooping boss now thinks they'd better not send you on that expensive training course or assign you that big, important project where success could get you promoted. And that you'll never get a chance to address their fears, as they want to keep the snooping secret.
> The risk is that your snooping boss now thinks they'd better not send you on that expensive training course or assign you that big, important project where success could get you promoted. And that you'll never get a chance to address their fears, as they want to keep the snooping secret.
What a great reason to encourage employees at the margin to job hop! Better pay, negotiation of those expensive training courses and/or big important projects.
What's the downside here, exactly, to a more fluid labor supply/supplier's market?
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#237I think Glassdoor has the issue in that its not a growth business, but needs to be. You can't have a website like Glassdoor that is VC funded, owned by PE or publicly traded and not have it go to shit. The organic usage is people looking for new jobs, or posting about jobs they hate, or companies responding. A website that has <20 employees and is fine with being a $10M a year business living off of ad revenue could…
Yeah, and the problem is that if you try to start a bootstrapped company to compete with Glassdoor without ever taking funding, you’ll be outspent on marketing by the companies that did take funding and you’ll go under. There’s a reason so many of these sites are VC funded even when it feels like they shouldn’t be. And VCs are often willing to fund things with a 1% chance of success, so even if multiple VC-backed com…
Why is it impossible for communities to emerge organically in 2024? Why must you raise and spend $20m on marketing alone?
I found Reddit literally through organic word-of-mouth when Digg went under. Never saw an ad for it in my life.
Why does a Glassdoor alternative inherently need marketing?
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#238Wow, big dark UX pattern when trying to sign in now. I'm quite positive that I never linked my glassdoor account to google. Yet, Glassdoor was ambiguously saying on login "use your google account to login for your @gmail address!". To which google asked "are you sure you want to share info with glassdoor." There was no way to enter my old password, I was forced to now link my account with google which force shared my…
I was able to login just now using an email address.
Was it an @gmail?
I wonder if glass door forced the account linking because of that, or if the option to enter my password and not link accounts was just buried.
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#239I think Glassdoor has the issue in that its not a growth business, but needs to be. You can't have a website like Glassdoor that is VC funded, owned by PE or publicly traded and not have it go to shit. The organic usage is people looking for new jobs, or posting about jobs they hate, or companies responding. A website that has <20 employees and is fine with being a $10M a year business living off of ad revenue could…
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?
It’s not good enough to run a business that supports you, your family, and your employees families anymore. Everything has to be the next billion-dollar big idea that’ll make the books. Even small businesses have the feel of soul-less big business because of this. It’s disheartening that this is what the tech industry has become.