Tend to use blind for the inside scoop these days anyway
Blind is 10% inside scoop, 90% shitposting.
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
#82If 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…
We built this tool as part of HiringSolved. Other signals included time in current position relative to industry average and personal history.
Can you tell us more? What signals should I be worried about employers looking at?
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
We built this tool as part of HiringSolved. Other signals included time in current position relative to industry average and personal history.
I will never understand how people can willingly build tools like this that almost exclusively serve to make employment miserable.
The family needs to eat and as an American with no social or economic safety net, my morals play a very small role.
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
We built this tool as part of HiringSolved. Other signals included time in current position relative to industry average and personal history.
I will never understand how people can willingly build tools like this that almost exclusively serve to make employment miserable.
Let me give you a hint how: it involves a money transaction.
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#85Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#86If 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…
If you can help it, it’s best to leave (or not start at) a company with such practices anyway.
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
We built this tool as part of HiringSolved. Other signals included time in current position relative to industry average and personal history.
I will never understand how people can willingly build tools like this that almost exclusively serve to make employment miserable.
There's a strong component of "If I don't someone else will", but also, usually this is the kind of thing that sucks at getting general open/free solutions, because no one does it willingly, yet it's easy for an employer to justify paying for (And economically incentivize it's development)
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#88If 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…
Perfect, I can update my LinkedIn profile when the project is in a critical phase and I know managers are making increment decisions
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#89Wow, 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 email & name. I was really nervous about even enabling this linking... I bit the bullet, happily it looks like it is somewhat easy to delete reviews and finally the account. Getting there though, was forced to divulge new information.
I don't think I could have a lower opinion of glassdoor now..
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
We built this tool as part of HiringSolved. Other signals included time in current position relative to industry average and personal history.
I will never understand how people can willingly build tools like this that almost exclusively serve to make employment miserable.
I think there's an explanation that is both more charitable and more pragmatic.
Companies try to keep employees happy and committed, and part of that is making sure they see a potential future / growth for themselves. As a manager I try to both make sure this is based in reality and that employees are picking up the message.
I like to think I am good at this but it's a difficult skill, and external signal to "hey, you might want to check in with Bob a bit more carefully next time to make sure he's feeling as good as we think he is" could always be valuable.
So even from Bob's perspective it's positive - he may get the extra conversation that increases his options where he stays. On the flip side, what's the malicious use case? "You updated your linkedIn so I am going to fire you" doesn't sound like company policy that's going to be implemented anywhere because it makes no sense.