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I work at Citymapper as a software engineer, and I know from my own personal experience that Glassdoor doesn't reflect our culture. We have a smart and passion

I work at Citymapper as a software engineer, and I know from my own personal experience that Glassdoor doesn't reflect our culture. We have a smart and passionate team. Everyone is supportive of each other, and you will learn a lot every day. There's an abundance of interesting problems around and everyone is passionate about building a great product. Anyone thinking of applying and is concerned about this, please contact me: emil at citymapper and I can share my experiences.

orf 7y ago
Are you saying that the people on Glassdoor, and even here on hacker news, are lying about the way the CEO acts?
ACow_Adonis 7y ago
I was going to make a comment about how your response sounded either like marketing, AI-generated-text, or a HR department trying to recruit rather than an actual human being or software engineer, because you didn't actually say anything material while giving a lot of tech-recruiting catch phrases. So I clicked on your account and looked at your past comment history... yikes... Maybe you're an just an engineer that only posts about recruitment for Citymapper? (PS: just subjectively, it looks to me like the positive glassdoor reviews also look suspicious). (Obviously) I haven't worked three, but my spidey senses aren't exactly giving off a good vibe here...
- brun 7y ago
  Referral bonuses FTW
- wilandbo 7y ago
  > So I clicked on your account and looked at your past comment history... yikes... Good catch. His comments can be ignored based on his comment history.
- dang 7y ago
  This crosses into personal attack. EmilLondon did nothing wrong. Posting jobs to Who Is Hiring threads, in particular, is a service to the community. We don't allow users to hound other users because of where they work. Please see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20disincent&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... and make your substantive points without that in the future.
  - ACow_Adonis 7y ago
    I respectfully disagree. If an account has done LITERALLY NOTHING but post recruitment ads for one company and posts in a style reminiscent of a spam or marketing bot, it is not a personal attack to point this out. It is doubly so when the content of their post was what tipped one off to the fact that they might not be what they claim to be and aren't acting in good faith. It is pertinent information to those without the time to do further research that this account acts like a hostile actor, contributes nothing to the site, and its position and opinion should be further discounted. Furthermore, it's highly relevant in a thread where the discussion contains observations that the company is the kind of place that is bad to work at, and spams public review sites like glassdoor with fake reviews, and now also, comment sections such as hacker news.
    - dang 7y ago
      Bringing in someone's history as ammunition in an argument or otherwise to discredit them ("I clicked on your account and looked at your past comment history... yikes") crosses into personal attack in a way we don't allow here. There are presumably ways of raising such concerns without impugning the other person's integrity or good faith, but the burden is on you to fully disambiguate that. Otherwise we end up with the sort of personal sniping that simply drives people off the site, and that's neither fair nor in HN's interests. We want people to feel free to comment here about their work or workplace, because those are going to be among the things they know the most about. Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines? They cover this kind of thing: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

orf 7y ago

Are you saying that the people on Glassdoor, and even here on hacker news, are lying about the way the CEO acts?

ACow_Adonis 7y ago

I was going to make a comment about how your response sounded either like marketing, AI-generated-text, or a HR department trying to recruit rather than an actual human being or software engineer, because you didn't actually say anything material while giving a lot of tech-recruiting catch phrases. So I clicked on your account and looked at your past comment history... yikes... Maybe you're an just an engineer that only posts about recruitment for Citymapper? (PS: just subjectively, it looks to me like the positive glassdoor reviews also look suspicious). (Obviously) I haven't worked three, but my spidey senses aren't exactly giving off a good vibe here...

brun 7y ago
Referral bonuses FTW
wilandbo 7y ago
> So I clicked on your account and looked at your past comment history... yikes... Good catch. His comments can be ignored based on his comment history.
dang 7y ago
This crosses into personal attack. EmilLondon did nothing wrong. Posting jobs to Who Is Hiring threads, in particular, is a service to the community. We don't allow users to hound other users because of where they work. Please see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20disincent&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... and make your substantive points without that in the future.
- ACow_Adonis 7y ago
  I respectfully disagree. If an account has done LITERALLY NOTHING but post recruitment ads for one company and posts in a style reminiscent of a spam or marketing bot, it is not a personal attack to point this out. It is doubly so when the content of their post was what tipped one off to the fact that they might not be what they claim to be and aren't acting in good faith. It is pertinent information to those without the time to do further research that this account acts like a hostile actor, contributes nothing to the site, and its position and opinion should be further discounted. Furthermore, it's highly relevant in a thread where the discussion contains observations that the company is the kind of place that is bad to work at, and spams public review sites like glassdoor with fake reviews, and now also, comment sections such as hacker news.
  - dang 7y ago
    Bringing in someone's history as ammunition in an argument or otherwise to discredit them ("I clicked on your account and looked at your past comment history... yikes") crosses into personal attack in a way we don't allow here. There are presumably ways of raising such concerns without impugning the other person's integrity or good faith, but the burden is on you to fully disambiguate that. Otherwise we end up with the sort of personal sniping that simply drives people off the site, and that's neither fair nor in HN's interests. We want people to feel free to comment here about their work or workplace, because those are going to be among the things they know the most about. Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines? They cover this kind of thing: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html