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Edit: Here's the full post: https://www.teamblind.com/post/How-we-got-here-Some-inside-s.... Their website kind of sucks: when you click to see "all posts" about Microsoft, it actually just shows you "trending" posts (that are all a bunch of junk about interviews and offers).

Edit 2: It looks like it's Twitter's fault I can't see the content there, so it wasn't a tease on Blind's part.

Original comment: So is this a tease just to install their app? The tweet only seems to be a screenshot of the intro to the post, no link or anything. Can anyone post a link to or the content of this "long post"?

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Blind is a good idea for a site but it is just so much worse than reddit for actually having discussions. Also pretty toxic community.

It's not a good community for discussions. It is a great community to find inside scoop on companies - which unfortunately leans towards toxicity because companies often secretly have toxic policies.

Blind is all toxic. My former company had some good parts and bad parts, but the conversation on Blind was 100% negative. If I were trying to get a sense of what working at a company was really like, Blind would not be a great place to go.

It was a great place to vent, though.

It often feels like product ratings. Only the people who didn't like it bother to write a review.

The silent majority that's there for the subconsciously gets affected by the toxicity though.

> It often feels like product ratings. Only the people who didn't like it bother to write a review.

In my experience, product ratings are not at all like that. Tons of people who like stuff leave positive reviews, and frequently leave evidence they have low standards or are not good at evaluating quality.

Is there a better place to get that scoop on company internals than Blind, though? Besides having friends at every tech company in existence.

It's not a fair review place. But it is an honest review place wherein no one tries to paper over reality. Turns out, reality is toxic.

I can read all the good stories on Glassdoor. Hell, most of them I think are likely fake. I see much more value in learning about the ugly side of a company, even if I know this is unbalanced.

> pretty toxic community

This is immaterial when every community (Reddit, HN, twitter, fb groups, blind) calls each other "toxic." Spidermen_pointing.jpeg. Blind is by far the best for tech career advice. Toxic advice for a toxic world.

Anonymity can be both a good and bad thing. I think people are more willing to share their real thoughts in an anonymous Blind discussion than on somewhere like Glassdoor. The downside is the relentless trolling and focus on TC.

+1. it's a toxic community and don't believe anything that's said on Blind. Glassdoor recently released their version of conversations called 'Bowls' and it's much better. less anonymous and more user friendly/meaningful conversations.

This website looks like they copied glassdoor's looks right down to the CCS. Looks like a fake website

I don't know, for me, the link posted here seems to be a tweet thread, and each post in the thread shows a screenshot of some of the post.

> I don't know, for me, the link posted here seems to be a tweet thread, and each post in the thread shows a screenshot of some of the post.

I'm not seeing a thread, just the single tweet with a single screenshot.

same, maybe because I'm logged out of X.

You can no longer see full threads without being logged in. The linked tweet is the first in a thread of 16.

Their UI really needs some indication of that...

  "Replies: 16 (log in to view)"

Maybe it's obvious when it looks too quiet?

Originally, you couldn't see the reply count while looking at a tweet because the replies were just visible below the tweet itself. Then Musk pushed a ton of changes, and now there's still no reply count, but now you can't see those replies if you're not logged in. Really it's just that the sensible evolutionary changes haven't had a chance to catch up with the breakneck changes.

> Maybe it's obvious when it looks too quiet?

This is probably your best signal. The linked tweet currently has 37 retweets, 10 quote-tweets, and 240 likes, so it would be incredibly unusual if there were actually zero replies (barring tweets which have had their replies limited). But to know that, you'd have to know a bit about Twitter norms, and if you know that then you probably know that you can't see replies without being logged in.

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