in the tech job market, combined with huge earning potential, has turned many of its workers toward a new professional networking platform offering crowd-sourced compensation data and unfiltered job reviews.
“On most job boards there can be huge discrepancies and ranges of hundreds of thousands of dollars between the minimum and maximum – it can be very outdated,” saidBlind is different, he said: “It’s really fresh, people are really active on it, you can ask questions – people are sharing salaries from 2024 rather than 2019.
. Once users verify their work e-mails, they can access groups just for people in their organization, anonymously comparing raises or bonuses – or frankly discussing big changes at the company.but moved to the U.S. after seeing how much his role paid on Blind – told The Globe and Mail that he has been able to see how the sentiment in his company has been affected by the recent round of layoffs.
“The comments I saw immediately pushed me back. I said, ‘I’m not touching this platform,’ ” said Yasemin Sezer, a board member of CIOCAN, a non-profit representing Canadian IT leaders.