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

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!

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!

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?

@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.

Candor

Candor collects & verifies reviews of startup professionals

Candor collects & verifies reviews of startup professionals

Candor

Candor collects & verifies reviews of startup professionals

Candor collects & verifies reviews of startup professionals

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