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HR Tech Isn’t Dead—You’re Just Building It Wrong
Posted on July 23, 2025 2 Comments
For Ashby to close a $50M round in mid-2025 speaks volumes. The market may be freezing over, but Ashby is clearly the exception—and potentially the prototype for what a next generation of emerging TA tech companies should look like as they attempt to succeed at scale.
Glassdoor: An M&A Which Will Live in Infamy.
Posted on May 10, 2018 10 Comments
There are a lot of companies out there that actually walk the walk. Glassdoor, for a long time, was one of the good guys; they practiced the same sort of radical transparency they preached and were the rare company to actually champion the employee over the employer. Of course, when you’re a startup, it’s pretty easy to […]
Feeling Lucky: Google Gets Into Sourcing.
Posted on March 28, 2018 4 Comments
One of the foundational premises of talent sourcing lies in the fact that traditional search engines are notoriously bad at searching for individual people and profiles, particularly as they relate to jobs. If you’re looking for something, search engines are great. If you’re looking for someone, obviously, there are a few inherent limitations to even the most […]
HiQ Lawsuit: When LinkedIn Loses, Everybody Wins.
Posted on August 16, 2017 2 Comments
Throughout its history, LinkedIn has slowly, albeit deliberately, evolved from what used to be a fairly innocuous social network into one of the internet’s most extensive sources of personal data. Some of this, of course, is inevitable, given LinkedIn’s longevity on the market – it’s been collecting personally identifiable data (er, “professional information”) for well […]
Why Google Is The Ultimate Spyware.
Posted on December 9, 2016 2 Comments
A Google product manager filed a lawsuit in California Superior Court yesterday, alleging the company’s strict internal confidentiality policies represent a breach of California labor laws. The lawsuit alleges that Google has implemented an enterprise wide “spying program” for current employees to voluntarily report coworkers and colleagues suspected of leaking confidential information or trade secrets.
Snark Attack 