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this is why the GDPR right of erasure exists fuck these companies
Also California’s CCPA/CPRA.
Also Virginia’s VCDPA.
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
#302I just logged in for the first time in years to delete my account, and before letting me do anything they required me to add my full name and other employment info.
I got the same modal, but I opened up DevTools, deleted the modal and was able to then click into my account settings and delete my account.
Careful now, some particularly dimwitted prosecutor might charge you with unlawful access to a computer system.
We need to throw away current cybercrime laws and start over with people who actually know what access means.
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#303Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
Or it guarantees you’re in the next round of layoffs. You’re now a liability and they’ll be looking for a replacement with better loyalty signals.
Or they spare you, betting you'll leave on your own terms and they won't need to pay you a severance.
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Definitely. But also expensive non-squeaky wheels get replaced with cheaper wheels if upper management is in the mood of cost cutting.
Is there always a cheaper wheel to replace cheap non-squeaky wheels ? Asking for a (n-already-too-)cheap(-to-their-liking) non-squeaky wheel friend of mine.
There is always perceived cost cutting of outsourcing.
There is always "we fired 20% of the people, now their workload is on your shoulders or you will also be fired".
There is always "here is a book titled 'use agile to deliver twice as fast' now the deadline is in 3 months instead of 6 or else".
The only defense against that is having more options.
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#305Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there always a cheaper wheel to replace cheap non-squeaky wheels ? Asking for a (n-already-too-)cheap(-to-their-liking) non-squeaky wheel friend of mine.
There is always perceived cost cutting of outsourcing. There is always "we fired 20% of the people, now their workload is on your shoulders or you will also be fired". There is always "here is a book titled 'use agile to deliver twice as fast' now the deadline is in 3 months instead of 6 or else". The only defense against that is having more options.
Yeah, in the end it's about always having a plan B at any time.
Wheels gotta move I guess, it's in their nature after all.
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#306I guess all I can do is upvote this, and hope the sunshine helps lead to the demise of those who turn the public goodwill they've solicited -- here, transparency into employment practices -- against the very folks they've gotten to exercise it.
I guess we all know now not to work for Glassdoor...
(Including the unpaid work that built their product in the first place.)
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
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It's by no means a limiting factor if they don't have one, but when I'm interviewing for mid - staff+ level engineers in my specific field I absolutely love when they have some sort of project portfolio I can look at. Github, Gitlab, medium, whatever. I learn so little from a persons bullet pointed resume that when I don't have those the interviews feel like I'm pretty much walking in completely ignorant to this pers…
> Half of my career was built because I'm not an anonymous random software guy and companies know my work. I think this is a really important point. Most companies aren't going to hire some anonymous person on the internet with no track record or verifiable background. Most companies can't even legally put someone on their payroll without knowing a lot more about a person. People without a real-name presence on the i…
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> 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.
You're missing that plenty of people lack the intelligence, education, media literacy etc to actually recognize that "fake"ness. You can still pull in a hundred grand scamming people on instagram by posting a selfie with a rented or parked Lambo and a caption reading "Send me and I'll double it and show you how to be rich just like me!!!" There are people on this very forum who are 100% subscribed to the "if you work…
This is the most insightful comment I’ve ever read on HN.
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#309I keep thinking about this response from a glassdoor employee, and what it implies about their decision making processes: I stand behind the decision that your name has to be placed on your profile and it cannot be reverted or nullified/anonymized from the platform. I am sorry that we disagree on this issue. [...] This is my final determination. I, as well as multiple members of my team, have reviewed your request se…
There is no recourse except not to play. The end user has no choice. Sounds like a dictatorship.
The recourse is taking down the business with a bot hive?
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#310If 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…
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.
For the vast majority of developers, this is the smarter choice. If you contribute to a very popular project, it might be different. But otherwise keep a bit of privacy.
Companies already tried to get rights to software created in your free time. Why even allow any attack surface here?