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  1. Comment on Work profile, akin to credit score? in ~tech

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    I’m reasonably sure it’s still unregulated, based on the cavalier way most companies handle data. Except maybe in the EU.

    I’m reasonably sure it’s still unregulated, based on the cavalier way most companies handle data. Except maybe in the EU.

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  2. Comment on Work profile, akin to credit score? in ~tech

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    I find myself skeptical of this, simply because I don’t know that I or anyone else I know even knew that this existed. If people were getting asked it would be viral on TikTok by now. I feel like...

    I find myself skeptical of this, simply because I don’t know that I or anyone else I know even knew that this existed. If people were getting asked it would be viral on TikTok by now.

    I feel like there’s probably something buried in the “you give us the right to verify and background check you” that are conditions of employment that let them skate past this.

    3 votes

  3. Comment on Work profile, akin to credit score? in ~tech

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    I suppose as a follow up: this feels like a really sneaky way to get around laws, that prevent employers from asking about previous wages. I wonder how salary transparency laws will impact this...

    I suppose as a follow up: this feels like a really sneaky way to get around laws, that prevent employers from asking about previous wages.

    I wonder how salary transparency laws will impact this too. If I make 70k, but I’m a candidate for a position with a posted range of 110-130k, would they disqualify me? Try to offer me less? Unscrupulous employers hardly need reasons to be shady.

    16 votes

  4. Comment on Work profile, akin to credit score? in ~tech

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    I use levels.fyi as a negotiating baseline, I’ve always kind of wondered if people inflate their salaries as a quasi-collective pay boost effort. Why have you preferred to deflate?

    I use levels.fyi as a negotiating baseline, I’ve always kind of wondered if people inflate their salaries as a quasi-collective pay boost effort. Why have you preferred to deflate?

    9 votes

  5. Comment on Work profile, akin to credit score? in ~tech

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    YES this was it. Thank you! Love to know that this is in the hands of a company that’s already shown how careless they are with data.

    YES this was it. Thank you!

    Love to know that this is in the hands of a company that’s already shown how careless they are with data.

    13 votes

  6. Work profile, akin to credit score?

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    I was scrolling through Tildes a while ago when I can across a comment talking about how employers fed data into a credit-bureau-esque application that they could check to see things like your...

    I was scrolling through Tildes a while ago when I can across a comment talking about how employers fed data into a credit-bureau-esque application that they could check to see things like your past salary data. Unfortunately, I can’t find that comment anymore. Does anyone know what it was, or where to find it?

    I find the concept to be incredibly worrying, especially as it seems like unregulated technology or at the very least operating in a gray area carved out by existing credit reporting.

    (Please let me know if this should go in ~misc or somewhere else. Wasn’t sure where to put it!)

    35 votes

  7. Comment on Apple announces the iPhone 15 launch event in ~tech

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    I miss the days when a) phones had S variants — I always bought the S variant. It had all the features of last year with the major bugs fixed. b) and there was genuinely something new and...

    I miss the days when a) phones had S variants — I always bought the S variant. It had all the features of last year with the major bugs fixed. b) and there was genuinely something new and groundbreaking every year, where getting a new phone meant having something radically different. An extra camera isn’t groundbreaking.

    Yes, where can phones go from here, they’ve already done everything! That’s what they said about Motorola razrs. Let’s get sci-fi with holographic displays, or AR from my phone to my glasses, not a 3500 pair of ski goggles.

    11 votes