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Only 11% Trust Facebook with Their Data

Earlier this month, New York Attorney General, Letitia James, opened an investigation into Facebook’s unauthorized collection of 1.5 million users’ email contacts. According to James, “Facebook has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of respect for consumers’ information while at the same time profiting from mining that data.” Recently, it

Who Really Runs Google? We Surveyed Their Employees to Find Out

In 2015 Sundar Pichai took over as CEO of Google, when the company decided to rebrand itself as Alphabet. Reports indicate that today, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the CEO and president of Alphabet have most of the decision-making power over financial information about every Alphabet company, while Sundar

Survey: 37 Percent of Tech Employees Deal with Sexism at Work

Earlier this month, Microsoft employees confronted their CEO and HR director to address the company’s alleged failure to tackle harassment and the widespread complaints of sexism. Currently, over 52,000 Microsoft employees are on our anonymous workplace social network, Blind, so we decided to survey these employees (and others

Here's How Many Tech Workers Cheat on Their Taxes...

According to the IRS, the average annual ‘tax gap’, the difference between taxes owed and taxes paid, has reached as much as $458 billion dollars. Tax evasion, tax cheating, tax fraud, whatever you want to call it, there are many people who don’t want to pay their taxes. The

42% of Tech Workers Are Interviewing for New Jobs

42% of Tech Workers Are Interviewing for New Jobs

Are you employed but interviewing for a new job? Interviewing for new work while you have a job is a common practice. Various polls and reports show as many as 40-80% of American employees were looking for new jobs or open to them.At Blind, we decided to survey

SAP employees, Amazon employees, Cisco employees, PayPal Employees Ebay Employees, Microsoft Employees, Oracle Employees, Goo

Lied on your resume to get a job? 1 in 10 say 'Yes'.

Have you ever lied on your resume, in an application, or during an interview to get a job? Some of the common resume lies are about academic degrees, age, technical abilities and criminal records. In interviews, people tend to tell lies related to salaries, references, and complete work history. Getting

56% of Techies: I Am Underpaid!

Tech workers are often paid more than the general population. It’s not unheard of for software engineers and other tech employees to make six figures and receive large signing bonuses. This made us wonder how satisfied tech employees are with their total compensation. To find out, we ran a