HACKER Q&A
📣 purple-leafy

I built a popular salary transparency tool – how else can I help?


As per title - I built a popular salary transparency tool (~6000 daily users) for my countries main job site.

I made this because I was pissed off one day with employers who underpay and negotiate down employees salaries.

What else can I build to push-back against the enshittification of the world, and help the common woman/man?

I hate the way employers treat employees.

I also hate the corruption of the government and government workers, and hate politics.

I hate the media and social media, regarding surveillance and manipulation.

I hate mortgages.

So, any ideas for things we can build to help the common man/woman?


  👤 austin-cheney Accepted Answer ✓
Increased transparency is certainly beneficial, but salary is only a single data point. Additional potential data points:

* how long the position has been opened to the public

* other compensation

* number of applicants applied to the position

* position minimal requirements (as opposed to desired qualities). For example you need a law license to work as a lawyer, no exceptions, so everyone else need not apply (no exceptions).

The biggest problem with developer hiring is that most organizations don’t know what they want, despite what they say. People and organizations generally have no idea just how biased they are. That results in tremendous bias. The only way to defeat bias is:

* set minimum undeliverable requirements and publish those requirements

* apply automated screening criteria to determine minimum acceptable technical competence only after a candidate exceeds the minimum required administrative requirements

* publish demographic information of candidates versus selected: age, sex, nationality, minimum education level, years of experience, and grades of automated screening criteria


👤 toomuchtodo
I love this. Keep up the great work.