Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public
Assume for a moment I&#x27;m a bad-faith, nosy employer who reads HN on a Saturday morning.
All it takes for me to match up my little stack of current employee&#x27;s resumes is a person&#x27;s city of residence, skills, and employment dates. If I&#x27;m that kind of employer, that&#x27;s enough to raise my red flags. If prior employers are named outright, that&#x27;s a 100% ID. If employment dates are paired with employment location, that&#x27;s a 100% ID.<p>I&#x27;ve known employers like this. I&#x27;ve worked for employers like this. Employers are already monitoring social media. Third party services are paid by employers to monitor for staff that might be looking at other jobs. Recruiters make it their mission to know who&#x27;s looking and what employers are likely to need their services in the near future. This is much of why trust and discretion is the most important asset on both sides of hiring related activities.<p>Triplebyte burning down their reputation as a recruitment avenue is one thing. Locking job searchers into reputation and livelihood risks inside Triplebyte&#x27;s own reputation dumpster fire, on the friday before a holiday weekend, during historic unemployment levels, in the middle of a fucking pandemic, is unforgivable. The CEO showing up in person with hamfisted gaslighting (seriously?) in the middle of this self made disaster makes me hope those comments don&#x27;t get flagged out of future HN search results.