Candor

Candor collects & verifies reviews of startup professionals

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Candor collects & verifies reviews of startup professionals

6 followers

Candor helps job seekers make better career decisions by providing authentic takes on leadership, hiring managers, and co-workers at hiring technology companies.

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Launch tags:Web App•Hiring•Productivity

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Love the idea behind this product @kelseycbishop! Glassdoor is only somewhat useful - after all, people leave managers not companies. Clean interface, great reviews already. What's your plan for soliciting constructive feedback vs angry rants?

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4yr ago

Candor

Maker

@stephangoupille great question! I think there are a few parts to this - the structure of our review form, our approval process, and soliciting enough reviews to be representative of an individual's working style. Our review form includes questions with predefined answer options which means that some of the feedback entails numerical scores on traits such as communication, respect, and feedback. We manually approve every review, so those from people that haven't worked at the same company or venture too close to harassment are not published. We also try to gather multiple perspectives on a particular individual. One review is hardly comprehensive - we reach out to both prior and current colleagues to try to capture a variety of points of view and to be able to showcase areas of growth and development.

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4yr ago

Campus Insights

Love this idea! It’s really hard to get a sense of the manager / team / company you are joining through the interview process unless you know people that work there / have worked there before. Curious if you can share more about what you are seeing resonating so far with your users and some things you all are excited to address going forward?

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4yr ago

Candor

Maker

@stephensoward yes! Great to hear the problem resonates with you. Our early users fall into two categories: candidates with a job offer and hiring managers conducting final round interviews. Candidates have a ton of anxiety when there's an offer on the table because they aren't sure if their future manager is the right fit. We've had so many of these folks say that Candor gave them the confidence they needed to make a more informed decision. Hiring managers are using Candor to replace their current reference process because they can get references that are faster and less biased than traditional candidate-sourced references. One thing we're excited to build for hiring managers is the ability for them to ask follow up questions to the reviewer. A lot of hiring managers have told us that they want to ask more specific questions based on the role they're interviewing for, so we're excited to build that out soon.

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4yr ago

Candor

Maker

Very excited to be on Product Hunt today sharing Candor, a product we've been building the last few months. We created Candor to help top talent evaluate new startup opportunities by providing real feedback on future leaders, managers, and peers at hiring companies. How can you confidently decide to work with people you only met once in an interview setting? How do you know their authentic work style? Your success and well-being at work is deeply intertwined with who you work with, yet there isn’t a good way to assess your compatibility with potential co-workers. Until now. Enter Candor. After chatting with hundreds of startup employees we realized that most people in fact perform due diligence but behind the scenes, on private phone calls and in hush-hush meetings. Backchannel references are the norm. If you have a strong network you’re in better shape, but even then, in many cases you’ll get only one or two opinions if you’re lucky. Given the current state of affairs, every time you start at a new company there’s a high risk you’ll join a team that's a poor fit. Candor’s objective is to make transparency and accountability the norm when it comes to deciding who to work with. Transparency shouldn't be limited by our networks, and it shouldn't be exclusive to private calls with first and second degree connections. Learning more about who you might be working with isn’t just a nice-to-have, it's a critical piece of the puzzle. We're in our early days at Candor, but we'd love your take on current and former co-workers. Check us out at withcandor.co, browse reviews, and share your take on a teammate, manager, or leader that you've worked with. Thanks for reading - excited to hear your feedback and questions!

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4yr ago

Coda

Gaining as many data points as possible before making a career move is critical for me - and it's been a struggle so far. I'm hoping Candor can fill this void. Great idea, great execution. If someone provides feedback on me, can I respond to it - like a yelp / google restaurant review?

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4yr ago

Candor

Maker

@joseph_bauer Great question! It's super important to us that your Candor profile is yours, which is why we allow you to update it with an intro to who you are, your superpowers, and people you love to work with. We'll soon add in the ability for you to comment on reviews you receive - it's on the short term product roadmap.

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4yr ago

Might I suggest flipping each ratings scale from the current negative-to-positive characteristic to positive-to-negative characteristic instead? It could change the entire tone of your solution - accentuating the positives vs exposing the negatives. I'd be interested to see the results of an A/B test.

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4yr ago

Candor

Maker

@gregory_wehmeyer this is a great suggestion! We're constantly looking for better ways to highlight the positives and I agree this could help. Thanks so much for the feedback!

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4yr ago

Primer Library

Hunter

Backchannels are a crucial part of recruiting — both for employees evaluating companies, and vice versa — but it can be hard to know who to backchannel to, and even harder if you don't already have a strong network. Candor is solving this problem in quite an elegant way — verifying honest reviews of founders and leaders of companies. It's already a valuable resource for potential employees of many companies (they have 150+ verified reviews already), and I'm excited that they're launching today!

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4yr ago

@delk well said!

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4yr ago

MakeSchool Gap Year

This will be a game changer for every new grad trying to evaluate offers from different companies. The narrative should shift from picking the right company to picking the right manager especially at larger organizations. Hopeful Candor can drive that shift!

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4yr ago

Candor

Maker

@manifold Thanks, Jeremy! Absolutely, we think so too :)

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4yr ago

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