I joined Blind a year ago to get career advice and connect with fellow software engineers. During this time, I've had my TC ridiculed, been the subject of sexist jokes, and felt my self esteem get crushed by the general toxicity on this app. Given the poor governance by the app creators in terms of reporting posts and preventing toxic content from getting out of hand in the first place (for example, by leveraging a simple Word2Vec classifier to detect abusive posts), how toxic would you say that the blind app is? TC: 120K #tech #blind
It is really up to you how you take comments.
There are quite a few helpful posts if you look past the noise. Some people can't help themselves and only troll for entertainment. It's more like real, corporate life - only here, things aren't happening behind your back. Use this tool to train your mind and pick up communication skills to handle irritants and jerks at work. Everything and everyone can teach you something useful.
OP I used to be furious seeing such replies a few months back and argue. It's not worth it. Blind is shit. There is nothing new here. Same old posts. It's all about LeetCode and TC. I turned off notifications and stopped bothering to check the app and my life has been peaceful since then lol. I just come here and scroll for a min and stop it consciously and get back to my real life. I may do this once in 2 days or so. While Blind creators try to monetize the platform, people would just stop using the app because there is nothing new here. If you think deeply, you know answers to all the questions that you may want to ask on blind. Even if you want an opinion ask the people you know. Stop making posts about anything and stop replying to any posts. Turn off notifications. Do these and thank me later! I follow the same for Twitter. I deleted FB because that's an another crap. I won't login to LinkedIn until I start my next job search. To anyone feel like OP - If you still can't control using blind, dm me. I will stop that urge to discuss anything on this platform and change your mind. Remember - You always gotta hold the key to your happiness and peace and you should never lose that control to anyone else (it's different when it comes to closest people in your life though). If you are upset about something because of someone's action, ask yourself what's happening, analyze if the other person's view makes sense to you and if doesn't bounce back and move on - don't even bother to confront or explain them because your time is precious and it's not worth it!
How can it be better?
I have a lot to do in my real life than worrying about a stupid comment from a rando on any digital platform. I hold the key to my happiness not you or anyone else! I do apply the same principle to people in real world too and it makes wonders for me.
I love Blind. I welcome all forms of communication.
The only thing Blind is really useful for is getting an idea about TC, so you can demand that during your next job interview. Apart from that, it's just another cesspool like Twitter.
Not really. I wouldn't hire someone demanding the packages most people are claiming to get here.
And why would someone worth their salt want to be hired by a person like you from a no name company ?
Blind is maybe 75% desi.
I must be part of the .2% white female minority then ha
I've always thought someone outside India , Pak, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka might not understand the word, "Desi".
GTFO! Like it's not enough we have to pretend at work and deal with all of the political correctness, sensitivity and other bullshit. Got any real friends? If you do you know we call each other effing idiots, douches, pussies etc. And we laugh, have fun because nobody takes it personally and it's just in the context of the situation when someone stops using a brain. Blind is a bit like that, don't try to take that away, just because you can't take it. I feel right at home with this morons all around me! And BTW I had to edit this post 7 times to get it through their stupid filter so it's coming here as well...
It's unbelievable that somebody would speak like this in 2020
Wtf has a year to do with this?
This app mirrors America if s386 gets passed🤔
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Congrats it's passed :) lol
This post doesn't pass the vibe check
You know you can always GTFO right?
Folks, ^ is what I mean by toxic
But you can gtfo