hansel_der (u/hansel_der)

hansel_der commented on Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor – how companies respond newsletter.pragmaticengin... · Posted by u/EvgeniyZh

robertlagrant · 2 years ago

It's a bit of a catch-22: why would they believe you're actually an employee of a company if you don't have a work email address for that company?

hansel_der · 2 years ago

on the other hand i know countless subcontractors/vendors that have dozens of work email addresses from different companies and are not really employees of any of them.

so yea, emails are not a trusworthy source of anything, but filtering singups based on addresses is very common.

hansel_der commented on Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor – how companies respond newsletter.pragmaticengin... · Posted by u/EvgeniyZh

twelve40 · 2 years ago

here is an actual failure: when i'm looking at say Meta salaries, i still see no indicator or filter of how recent this data is. Are the numbers that they are showing an average of all reports starting from 2007? which may have like doubled since then, 15 years ago? This renders the salary data completely useless, you can't do apples-to-apples with a more recent company like OpenAI that doesn't have 15 years worth of old useless numbers averaged into it. It could be solved by adding some kind of a pretty basic recency filter, but in 15 years of their existence they haven't bothered.

hansel_der · 2 years ago

> Are the numbers that they are showing an average of all reports starting from 2007

tbf it would probably suffice to have that information somewhere

hansel_der commented on Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor – how companies respond newsletter.pragmaticengin... · Posted by u/EvgeniyZh

boringg · 2 years ago

Is Glassdoor even relevant anymore? Seriously asking. It was maybe a decade ago but seemed to limp along badly damaged after everyone figured out how to game it and they took money to scrub reviews.

It's similar to yelp or any review based app.

hansel_der · 2 years ago

reputation systems don't just die off because they are found to be inadequate </s>

there is a constant influx of ppl that don't know yet [0]

[0] https://xkcd.com/1053/

hansel_der commented on Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor – how companies respond newsletter.pragmaticengin... · Posted by u/EvgeniyZh

archagon · 2 years ago

Wow, that’s damning.

IMO, for companies that publish ratings like Glassdoor/Yelp/Airbnb, it should be outright illegal to remove negative reviews without very good reason. (Lies, spam, etc.)

hansel_der · 2 years ago

then again, who decides if it is a (very) good reason?

hansel_der commented on Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor – how companies respond newsletter.pragmaticengin... · Posted by u/EvgeniyZh

bigtunacan · 2 years ago

Yeah. 8 is just a silly question. First off you can often just tell if it's scripted. Secondly if it is scripted it's generally just because HR is more mature and is trying to be more fair in the hiring processes; this is a good practice for diversity.

Organizations that aren't scripted just haven't gotten there yet.

hansel_der · 2 years ago

have recently been in an interview were the scriptedness feeling crept in after the first few up-beat intro questions were done. didn't felt professional at all to see them working a questionaire with me.

hansel_der commented on Whistleblower drops 100 GB of Tesla secrets to German news site jalopnik.com/whistleblowe... · Posted by u/VagueMag

dotancohen · 2 years ago

> Why? > No, seriously. Why?

To improve the feature. The same reason that we report bugs to KDE, Mozilla, LibreOffice, Canonical, Debian, Red Hat, Anki, JetBrains, Oracle, etc.

hansel_der · 2 years ago

yea, in oss projects, users tend to feel more like stakeholders than with products of some mega-corp.

we all know that these feedback channels just create a corpus of opinions to be used for arbitrary arguments by management. no one is gonna read or even react to this unless it's necessary.

hansel_der commented on Potentially millions of Android TVs and phones come with malware preinstalled arstechnica.com/informati... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

ohgodplsno · 2 years ago

>that’s probably the problem with an unsafe OS by default.

Considering how absolutely dreadful iOS has been when it comes to CVEs allowing arbitrary code executions with kernel level privileges, I don't really think anyone gets to talk about iOS being "secure" by default. Secure for your grandfather maybe. There's a reason Zerodium values iOS zero days less than Android ones too [0], which is quite telling of the amount of them they already have in stock. See also Pegasus, which literally had multiple no-interaction RCEs for iPhones through iMessage (because Apple keeps parsing files through horribly vulnerable parsers). [1]

Apple gets to pretend that iOS is secure because they control the app store, which is the only official point of entry, and iOS is closed source.

[0] https://zerodium.com/program.html

[1] https://citizenlab.ca/2021/09/forcedentry-nso-group-imessage...

hansel_der · 2 years ago

> There's a reason Zerodium values iOS zero days less than Android ones too

iirc it was the other way around for some time

hansel_der commented on Potentially millions of Android TVs and phones come with malware preinstalled arstechnica.com/informati... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

realusername · 2 years ago

It wasn't even an invite, it was a calendar source (not sure of the exact name) which kept spwning more and more events as you go.

hansel_der · 2 years ago

iirc there was a time where spamers would send calender invites to random gmail's

hansel_der commented on Potentially millions of Android TVs and phones come with malware preinstalled arstechnica.com/informati... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

tannhaeuser · 2 years ago

Actually, old HTC and Samsung Android phones used to register as USB Mass Storage device, but Android changed that to MTP in version 5 or so.

hansel_der · 2 years ago

even remember a time when my galaxy s4 mini would ask me how it should represent itself when connected via usb; also drivedroid to emulate a cdrom drive with an downloaded .iso in order to boot older computers that don't know how to usb.

maybe i have been spoiled by the real computer in my pocket experience of custom rom's.

hansel_der commented on Potentially millions of Android TVs and phones come with malware preinstalled arstechnica.com/informati... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

GeekyBear · 2 years ago

> I went back to the store and bought him an iPhone SE. That was years ago now and haven’t heard a single complaint since.

I would assert that the iPhone SE is the best smartphone bang for the buck, especially for users in your family with a tendency to shoot themselves in the foot and need your assistance.

The $399 iPhone SE from 2016 got six years of OS updates and just got another security update last month. That's about $57 per supported year.

hansel_der · 2 years ago

bought a 1st gen SE in 2017, dropped daily, nothing broke to this day. what a phone!