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I have personal wiki pages for companies, where I record things like interesting HN posts about them, notes about their products, and a log of recruiting intera
by neilv 3y ago
I have personal wiki pages for companies, where I record things like interesting HN posts about them, notes about their products, and a log of recruiting interactions. All on one page.
Were I to pull up this company's wiki page while talking with a recruiter, this video is like, on a first date, someone being rude to the waiter, while they smile at you. Strong signal about what they truly are.
In this case, a stereotypical big corporate-bureaucratic drone company that absolutely doesn't care, and will toss you aside in an instant, in a Kafkaesque manner, while blaming you. With the effect of beating you up and stressing you more, on your way out -- disrupting your job-hunting, possibly unemployment insurance, and health.
- ryanisnan 3y agoThoughts about publishing it? Anonymously via GH?
- neilv 3y agoNope, the personal notes are necessarily personal. For example, confidential communications with recruiters. If I had to distinguish personal from public somehow in this, it would be more work, and decrease the utility to me. Also, most of it wouldn't be useful to anyone but me. Maybe doing personal wiki/notes like this is best thought of as an exercise for the person doing it. Rather than thinking of the artifact of that exercise as "content".
- makeworld 3y agoI respect this a lot.
- guax 3y agoThis is a very good idea, starting a file on cloudflare right now.
- Dah00n 3y agoGreat idea! You should add this too then: https://twitter.com/TheTranscript_/status/1652691469164068869 https://twitter.com/TheTranscript_/status/165269146916406886...
- neilv 3y agoSounds like they claim to have a problem with 100+ under-performing salespeople. For the sake of argument, let's say that blaming sales numbers on the salespeople was correct, and that culling was the right response. Then maybe the recent hire person in the video was included inadvertently, or indifferently. But I wouldn't take it as a given that the salespeople were the root problem. (Someone hired those people, mandated the framework in which they operate, designed the products for which they have to find buyers, etc.). And the tone with which a company is discarding its people tells you how they think about their people.