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Show HN: The reinvention of the company profile

companies.thedailymuse.com

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The reinvention is to feature exclusively pictures of attractive female employees?

The Daily Muse's About page [1] describes the website "community of women who believe that kicking ass and taking names is all part of the job". One could surmise that they are not showing female employees in the company photos in the hopes that male applicants will find them attractive.

[1]: http://www.thedailymuse.com/about/

Daily Muse is targeted at professional women. So companies recruiting there presumably want to highlight that they already have women employees in key roles.

[And it's not _exclusively_ women.]

Hey hey now, I'm (male) in there, under the office section, you can decide on the attractive part.

Cool demo.

Couple points of feedback:

-the word description is bigger than the explore button. I don't think having the word description there is even necessary - it's obvious you're describing each of those companies in that section. I'd make the explore button a little flashier.

-navigation is confusing. Maybe make each of the images open up in a light box instead of creating a new page?

-The layout of all of the elements is a bit confusing - I feel like I'm on an infographic without any method to the madness. You clearly have different sections in here, office pictures, employee testimonials, available jobs, etc. Some sort of order might be helpful, even if it's just a tabbed interface. Might be worth trying out.

Hope that helps - I really like it. The guys at InternMatch are doing a similar thing for companies (http://www.internmatch.com), but they seem focused on college students vs. active full time job seekers.

is there a reason why it seems women almost exclusively work in management* type roles and not production roles? It could be that this website is bias with who it listed and the roles they're in, but assuming it isn't and this is a representative sample: why are women in tech startups always management?

*management of people and things, positions I saw listed: account manager, executive assitant, marketing director, vp of communications, product manager, director of marketing, public relations, never developer or engineer or designer.

... and with that the gender debate will be rehashed for the millionth time. i wish this topic was verboten on HN.

In my humble Experience, and I don't posit any particular mechanism, women, on the whole (with exceptions) excell in areas that befit a good manager. Such areas may include understanding intuitively others' needs, knowing how to create a productive, energizing or otherwise desirable environment, understanding and responding to the respective energy levels of others and being aware and dealing with, in an organized manner, the gestalt. Whether this is an atrefact of culture, genetics, my limited exposure or any mix, I do not know, but in my life this has proven strongly to be the case and women I have spoken to have attested to it. Were I starting a company, I would look specifically for people with the aforementioned qualities and I imagine I would likely find them most often during my search in women. This, I hope, does not produce in any way the undue perpetuation of harmful discrimination. But all this to say, it is not a mere coincidence -- it happens that way for a reason.

"Such areas may include understanding intuitively others' needs, knowing how to create a productive, energizing or otherwise desirable environment, understanding and responding to the respective energy levels of others and being aware and dealing with, in an organized manner, the gestalt."

Let's watch as HN votes up blatant sexism! Why don't you finish up your analysis with how women can't code because they think emotionally instead of logically? And if you're going to spout sexist nonsense, at least have the courage to avoid couching it in weasel terms like "In my humble Experience" and "I do not know, but in my life this has proven strongly to be the case" and hiding behind "women you know".

Community support for the above post is a great example of the hostile environments that cause less women participate in tech. Sexism as exemplified above should be crushed on sight. Not reinforced with up-votes or ignored.

Care to offer your analysis of the parent comment's question in terms that you don't deem sexist? Msutherl offered anecdotes of his experience, and I don't think that their statements were offensive unless you think females should be completely immune to all attempt at generalisation.

>I don't think that their statements were offensive unless you think females should be completely immune to all attempt at generalisation.

Generalizing women is sexism the same as generalizing black people is racism.

Edit: And to add some random education, Men and Women have the same ability to read the emotions of others: "men as a group aren't poor "everyday mind readers"; they are simply unmotivated ones. If you want men to show you how well they can compete with women in "reading" other people's minds, just pay them for it!" http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/everyday-mind-reading/20...

Women's intuition is no more effective than Men's intuition.

I dig the design. It's fun to get an "at a glance" comparison of a bunch of companies.

Re, content, though: Ugh, giant, open, noisy, productivity-killing spaces. No bueno. A few places not to work.

Just get some circumaural headphones and the problem is solved!

Very nice site btw. :)

Minor nitpick: Fonts render weird on chrome/win7. Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/OXJUn.png

Very nice!

Couple of notes:

• Why not create a custom title tag for each company rather than using "5 Inspiring Places to Work brought to you by The Daily Muse" for each one,

• If I click get updates, I can't close the sign in box.

• Shouldn't clicking on a help wanted note, link me directly to the job rather than their jobs page?

• It'd be nice to have some type of hover effect applied to the images

Yay, I made the cut, if you want to hear me talk about the Table of Wonders at Kiva, it's near the center here http://companies.thedailymuse.com/kiva/office

Reminds me of http://workvibe.com

Except for the "Museo" font which I find unreadable, it seems nice and clean.

Not having a prominent direct link to the website of the company near the top of the profile seems like a gaffe. Why hinder access to the very company you're profiling?

Looking good. The design screams for a responsive layout though.

The tiles concept makes it really MS Metro like.

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