Blind - Workplace Community 17+

Very interesting idea and the thought behind it is good, but not actually very well thought through at all. Anonymity is great to spark real conversations, but it is also a breeding place for name calling and very toxic behavior. Once you’re in on your company’s board, you are there forever. Blind does nothing in the way of continued (yearly?) verifications, which means your company group is a good portion of former jilted employees there just to get a rise out of others, rather than participate in constructive conversations. This is probably its biggest flaw.
It’s an easy fix, but there doesn’t seem to be any interest in actually facilitating truly constructive conversations as they state. A bunch of culture and engagement buzzwords, but really just a place to breed workplace toxicity.

Hi,

Thank you for your critique and review. We hope to take the feedback provided in this review to work towards and stronger and more meaningful community moving forwards.

It’s a great site to get a quick view of ball park figures to help with offer negotiations. However, once you get those numbers get out fast! The site is infected with insecure, pretentious trolls who base their ENTIRE life’s value on what a corporation deems their worth, “comp” is. Everything on the site is TC with comments like “you’re only getting $165k??? That’s peanuts.” The site is full of “polls” like should I dump my girlfriend who only makes 60k. The comp obsessed culture this site has created around gauging the worth of a company on how much they pay you and nothing else is the responsibility of the creators of the site. Confirmation bias is abundant. A typical conversation OP: Why is TC at xyz company so low
Response: My comp is great! No complaints here at xyz company
OP(who by the way doesn’t work at xyz company): LIAR!!! There’s no way you make that much what’s your breakdown you including appreciation when’s your best date oh man you’ll never see that money but then there’s the cliff...and on and on and on...you get the point!

As for day in the life and what the top complaints are the site is useful. Stay away from comp discussions and the site can be a nice tool to utilize when navigating your next career move or to validate your concerns.

Also I scoped our the other reviews, many of which have similar comments about this site. The 4.5 star rating is clearly built on fake reviews.

Hi,

While we do have our fair share of negative content, we also have witnessed the strength that anonymity and transparency can have on making a better workplace for our users. We firmly believe in this mission and strongly recommend all our users to help us in creating a better community by flagging any toxic users or content on our platform. Posts that do violate our community guidelines are taken down. For any further feedback please email us at blindapp@teamblind.com!

I like the concept of the app in bringing together people from different workplaces to ask work-related questions but often times I saw many mean and unhelpful comments to questions that were simply seeking help. Unlike reddit and other chat communities, Blind doesn’t seem to have any enforced rules for trolling and harsh comments. I had this app for about 2 weeks and decided to delete it because I was sick of seeing people post harsh comments and supporting other harsh comments that simply amounts to cyberbullying.

Although, this was not always the case, it happened regularly to the point that I saw it in almost every other post.

I think having an app that connects people together for asking work related advice anonymously is nice. However, if you were to build a good and truly helpful community, I believe having enforceable rules to prevent cyberbullying and create a supportive environment is absolutely necessary for making the app experience better.

Thanks for your feedback! We provide every user with a set of community guidelines and these are meant to be referenced when participating on Blind. Like other social platforms, we have our share of negative content and we offer tools to report/block these. We highly encourage you to flag posts and comments that violate our guidelines. We also encourage you to block users that write content you don't wish to see. All of these users will eventually be reviewed for restrictions. If you have further feedback or suggestions, please email us at blindapp@teamblind.com!