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>They are one of those great companies that you want to emulate I created an Algolia account once with my personal github account, just for testing purposes. S

>They are one of those great companies that you want to emulate I created an Algolia account once with my personal github account, just for testing purposes. Starting the next day and continuing for a few weeks, I received a stream of emails from their sales people requesting times to schedule phone calls, and telling me how much they can help my company. I had no idea how they knew which company I worked for until I checked my linkedin and found Algoia people were visiting my profile. They have some seriously stalkerish sales practices.

redox_ 8y ago
(I'm leading engineering at Algolia) Very sorry to read that the trial period you've experienced was that stalkerish. In order to provide the best customer & support experience to our users, we do ask our teams to do some research before reaching out to our users. I assume this went a little bit far in your case, most probably because you've listed the company you were working for on your GH profile? Please feel free to reach out to me personally if there is anything I can do or anything you cannot share on HN, my email is sylvain@alg..
- sky_rw 8y ago
  The irony of a person commenting on a companies aggressive sales tactics and having the company immediately respond with sales tactics. Love it. I bet you definitely alleviated and sense of being stalked.
  - TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
    Ultimately, though, if a sale is made in this space we’d probably be right in assuming the deal is mutually beneficial.
manigandham 8y ago
Step 1 in sales is knowing who you're talking to. If your LinkedIn profile is public, what's the problem? They're a business selling a service so it's reasonable they reach out.
edraferi 8y ago
Why on earth are you offended that a company responded positively when you created a relationship with them? If you think visiting your LinkedIn profile is stalking, you should delete it. Totally agree that sales teams can overreach though. Perhaps there should be a little “why are you signing up? Personal/work/etc” quiz when you sign up, then emails reduced accordingly.
ASalazarMX 8y ago
I don't get why people expect privacy on information they made publicly available. It's hardly stalking if your information is just a few clicks away.

redox_ 8y ago

(I'm leading engineering at Algolia) Very sorry to read that the trial period you've experienced was that stalkerish. In order to provide the best customer & support experience to our users, we do ask our teams to do some research before reaching out to our users. I assume this went a little bit far in your case, most probably because you've listed the company you were working for on your GH profile? Please feel free to reach out to me personally if there is anything I can do or anything you cannot share on HN, my email is sylvain@alg..

sky_rw 8y ago
The irony of a person commenting on a companies aggressive sales tactics and having the company immediately respond with sales tactics. Love it. I bet you definitely alleviated and sense of being stalked.
- TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
  Ultimately, though, if a sale is made in this space we’d probably be right in assuming the deal is mutually beneficial.

manigandham 8y ago

Step 1 in sales is knowing who you're talking to. If your LinkedIn profile is public, what's the problem? They're a business selling a service so it's reasonable they reach out.

edraferi 8y ago

Why on earth are you offended that a company responded positively when you created a relationship with them? If you think visiting your LinkedIn profile is stalking, you should delete it. Totally agree that sales teams can overreach though. Perhaps there should be a little “why are you signing up? Personal/work/etc” quiz when you sign up, then emails reduced accordingly.

ASalazarMX 8y ago

I don't get why people expect privacy on information they made publicly available. It's hardly stalking if your information is just a few clicks away.