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My side project: Rank your tech company based on culture

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

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Post by madisonhamman »

sytelus wrote: post #30

Your algorithm for calculating final score seems flawed. For example, if I give location as best rating but pay sucks, the company's rating is still pretty good. In reality, pay matters much more than location. You should adopt overall happiness as the final score and leave everything else as details instead of doing average or weighted average of individual score. Also other questions you might want to include: * Do…

Very nice... We surveyed a hundred or so corporate types to settle on our 7 factors... but we do want to experiment with new questions.

We also envision a responsive algorithm based on a variety of variables (i.e., questions skipped or ignored repeatedly).

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

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Post by xivzgrev »

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.

Yea like what does a score of 80 mean? Maybe company A really values free spirited people, a bunch of people rate them highly because of that, but the reader doesn't like that.

How can you make the scores more relevant to a new visitor? I'd personally like a little survey that asks me what I value in a culture, and then calculates a match based on what other people have seen.

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

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Post by michaelochurch »

madisonhamman wrote: post #15
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

See, I wanted to review some ex-employers, but I don't put my whole career history on LinkedIn. Here's my explanation of why: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/01/02/why-i-wiped-m...

I have an ideological issue with LinkedIn. It made some people I like a boatload of money, so I like it on that front, but I also feel like the modern trend of oversharing one's economic relationships is really dangerous, so I prefer to keep my career history semi-private. I'm not ashamed of anything (except one shitball startup where I worked for 3 months and that I don't include on my resume) but I prefer to conserve information in a game (private-sector self-preservation and advancement) that is more adversarial than it is socially acceptable to admit.

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

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Post by michaelochurch »

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.

Unflagged (if it matters). You make a good point.

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

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Post by mathattack »

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…

Yes - this is the problem that most feedback sites have. I believe that Glassdoor uses Facebook as the verification. That way they at least know you are a real person, even if they can't explicitly verify that you actually worked there.
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