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Re:Let’s Admit Why There Are So Many “Job Hoppers” In Startu... by jamesshamenski on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @05:11PM (#1302761)
Genius = "TheFunded.com for employees to privately rate their employers"
Re:Let’s Admit Why There Are So Many “Job Hoppers” In Startu... by 2bit on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @06:02PM (#1302907)
Re:Let’s Admit Why There Are So Many “Job Hoppers” In Startu... by tibbon on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @10:23PM (#1303401)
Here's the thing- at some small companies that still doesn't really work. I can't put anything out there about my current company like that because it would be painfully obvious (even if anonymous) that it was me.
Re:Let’s Admit Why There Are So Many “Job Hoppers” In Startu... by madebylaw on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @05:19PM (#1302787)
What is meant by privately here? Does it mean you can rate the employers anonymously? Does it mean the ratings are behind a login/paywall? It doesn't make sense if it was completely private, otherwise, how could potential employees benefit?

What's wrong with something like this, for example? http://www.jobvent.com/

Re:Let’s Admit Why There Are So Many “Job Hoppers” In Startu... by jackowayed on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @05:35PM (#1302834)
I assumed he meant anonymously.

Jobvent looks like more-or-less the same basic idea.

One issue with translating this idea to startups is that if it's a small enough startup, they might be able to tell who you are. You might be the only person who's ever quit that startup, or there might be few enough that they can tell anyway. This could cause issues where companies threaten to give bad recommendations to future employers if people use the site, or something.

Re:Let’s Admit Why There Are So Many “Job Hoppers” In Startu... by petekazanjy on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @06:10PM (#1302919)
This is actually one of the use cases we're most proud about on Unvarnished ( Community-powered professional reviews http://www.getunvarnished.com ): the ability for information about hiring managers to float as well as information about employees.

So if a boss has high turnover rates under him, the idea would be that the reason why could float on his Unvarnished profile, such that would-be employees can get this information from the market before signing up to work for him.

Awesome hiring managers should get credit for being awesome. Bad hiring managers should not be able to hide behind information asymmetries. So too with employees.

Information liquidity is a powerful thing!

Re:Let’s Admit Why There Are So Many “Job Hoppers” In Startu... by btilly on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @07:47PM (#1303134)
I heard about you guys on NPR, but didn't call in because I was driving. I have a few concerns.

1. Your basic value proposition rests on getting people to pay money to have the ability to respond to things said about them. That's going to leave a bad taste in people's mouths.

2. Many people (like me) have deliberately chosen to not join facebook. We can't even try to address issues we see.

3. Identity is much more complicated than you acknowledge. My name is Ben Tilly. I'm at Google. People by the same name can also be found in a US college, doing graphic design in New Zealand, and being a nurse in England. Just to name a few that come up off of the top of my head. How do you tell which Ben Tilly should be able to respond to a bad comment about someone named Ben Tilly at Rent.com?

4. Anonymity is not so easy to protect. Only a small fraction of people comment online. A given manager only manages a small number of people. If a negative comment appears, frequently it is surprisingly easy to make an educated guess. If the comment is at all detailed, an analysis of writing style will usually confirm that guess. Unless a large fraction of people in your environment are commenting, the level of anonymity is limited. (Particularly if the boss can get access to proxy logs saying who was visiting getunvarnished, when.)

Re:Let’s Admit Why There Are So Many “Job Hoppers” In Startu... by randallsquared on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @10:17PM (#1303383)
Many people (like me) have deliberately chosen to not join facebook. We can't even try to address issues we see.

I wouldn't call this "can't". If you actually couldn't use their preferred identity provider, that would be different (and it could happen; I had a lot of trouble getting a Facebook account at all a few years back, due to my unusual name). But choosing not to sign up is not the same as not being able to sign up.

Re:Let’s Admit Why There Are So Many “Job Hoppers” In Startu... by btilly on Thursday April 29, 2010 @10:37AM (#1304547)
In NPR they said that they had checks that your Facebook account was sufficiently well established. They didn't say the exact criteria, but my impression was that it needed to have existed for a certain time, and have had certain levels of activity on it. This is to prevent people from creating throw away accounts, commenting libelously, then disappearing.

The unintended consequence, of course, is that people who don't have a Facebook account can't just create one. Instead you have to create one, use it until you have a sufficiently well-established identity, and only then can you use their service. Which is a high barrier for people who actually don't have a Facebook account.

Re:Let’s Admit Why There Are So Many “Job Hoppers” In Startu... by outotrai on Thursday April 29, 2010 @09:24AM (#1304307)
I think he means that he shouldn't be obligated to sign up for or get involved with any service that he doesn't want to just to protect his reputation. Sure, you don't have to pay the mafia protection money, but what happens if you don't?
Re:Let’s Admit Why There Are So Many “Job Hoppers” In Startu... by brerrabbit on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @07:31PM (#1303105)
>Awesome hiring managers should get credit for being awesome.

Highly unlikely considering what you have created. Anonymity and credibility are mutually exclusive. What you have here is a libel engine.

Re:Let’s Admit Why There Are So Many “Job Hoppers” In Startu... by pchristensen on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @05:16PM (#1302778)
Re:Let’s Admit Why There Are So Many “Job Hoppers” In Startu... by dalore on Thursday April 29, 2010 @07:03AM (#1304081)
Seems like it needs more data. I found 0 reviews for a company as big as Adobe.