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Comment by wombat-man | Hacker News Reader

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.

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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.

+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

> 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.

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