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This is best suited for Blind where you have the verification. That said recent results turned up little. On the layoffs, morale seems bad:

- "There isn't much clarity around severance and health insurance"

- "This is fine ([fire emoji] [dog emoji] [fire emoji])"

Recent (past month) reviews seem negative: "questionable execs", "micromanaging", "still not mature", "growing pains", "stay away", "mediocre, lack of product vision".

As a reminder Blind the users are verified to be working at the company. It's quite the cesspit of elitism and "I make more than you". But, again, reviews tend to be accurate because it's verified anonymity.

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Here's a couple more verified quotes since I dived down this rabbit hole:

- "I think most rational people agree with the decisions, regardless of possible fumbling"

- "We are living under constant anxiety waiting for the next round of layoffs that’s been planned by leadership at the beginning of the year"

- Another verified user disagreed with the above ^

- "Current employees are afraid to say anything as spez reads Blind and complains about it at all hands. 100% he will try to rat out who is speaking. Not worth it."

Last one seems most interesting. Looks like spez/upper leadership is monitoring what employees say.

That’s the expected outcome of any platform employees flock to

I'm convinced leadership everywhere reads Blind. Wouldn't catch me posting there ever. A private company having posts tied to your work email...

Yeah, screams honeypot.

> Looks like spez/upper leadership is monitoring what employees say.

> reply

Also, if an exec gives any sh1ts about what is on Blind, they've already failed and are just looking to maximize their image during what is probably a sh1tshow. See Ted Lasso's "Wonderkid".

It reeks of narcissism and gives me that 9V battery taste in my mouth.

Elon buying Twitter is the hyper example here. Morally bankrupt and pathetic, but may end up winning $ because of that whole not having morals part. I can't imagine living that kind of life, gross.

> if an exec gives any sh1ts about what is on Blind/

could change that to "if anyone"

my workplace's blind is extremely toxic and rarely rooted in reality.

> Current employees are afraid to say anything as spez reads Blind

LMAO. Of course someone so sensitive as to edit comments against him on his own site would obsess over comments on Blind.

> Current employees are afraid to say anything as spez reads Blind and complains about it at all hands. 100% he will try to rat out who is speaking. Not worth it.

Are employees worried he knows someone who works at Blind who can reverse lookup emails? By all appearances, no one's ever been identified on Blind in the 6 or 7 years it's been popular (with the exception of people who shared too much personal info). Seems like Blind really does throw the email away.

I mean technically any large corp can very easily find out who is on blind.

Every large corp has email filtering and logs. Easily just look for the employees who received the verification email from signing up to Blind w their work email addy bc you gotta use your corpo email address to join and comment there.

I'd be able to look at our logs and find that in just a few min.

Since it seems Spez is such a lil sensitive c-suite sf bro type, he'd be able to get that info no problem.

If 50% of your employees get Blind emails, good luck identifying them. I would hope they aren't clicking through the verification email from their work machine, but I've seen some ignorant ICs in my time.

Once your company is a certain size, work emails only get sent to work devices. Not sure what you’re getting at with hoping they’re not clicking through from their work computer. Of course they are.

But yes if a high enough percentage of employees are signing up, there’s safety in numbers.

> Once your company is a certain size, work emails only get sent to work devices. Not sure what you’re getting at with hoping they’re not clicking through from their work computer. Of course they are.

Once it arrives on your work device you are free to type it into your phone manually (this is me since I don't value my free time), forward the email elsewhere, or more recently take a phone pic of the url string and have the OS turn into text for you.

But I agree, having spent enough time reading the absurdities on Blind and wondering how some of these people got their $500k+ yearly comp without understanding how computers work, a majority of people are definitely most likely simply clicking the link on their work device.

The phone app is better, though.

Plenty of large corps have email retention times set, to avoid having to pass old emails to lawyers during discovery.

If you're doing it at receive time, then adding them to a table, sure, but that doesn't get you a backfill

> [on] Blind the users are verified to be working at the company

Well, they're verified to have worked at the company at some point. Blind doesn't make you periodically re-verify your access to your work email account.

Yes they do. I changed companies, was eventually asked to re-verify, now have no access to old company's channel

I was forced to re-verify a year after registering, at two different companies.

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