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sp4ceman

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outside your window.. no really.. keep looking...
edit :::: now with actual url
http://www.dev-score.com, and it should be propagated shortly.


i've been working on a website with a friend for the last month or so and need some testers and feedback.

the concept is this : finding good dev companies is hard so what we are proposing is you rate your past and current companies that you've worked for by answering a couple of non intrusive non "work secrets" related questions.

we pop out a final score and then we display each companies average publicly. if i ever get asked to interview there i can check their rating and either yay or nay.

nobody ever knows who reviewed what or what the individual reviews score was. we have ways of minimizing outliers to stop *******s from flaming their old boss and managers from pimping their own workplace.

bear in mind that it's still in progress. the styling is a bit funky and the pictures aren't final. it's also not one hundred percent responsive yet.

the questions are sort of coming together if you think we are missing something let me know via the uservoice icon or on the forum...
 
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Interesting - like a hello Peter for web dev's ?
 
AWD said:
Interesting - like a hello Peter for web dev's ?
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i guess so in a way.
not really trying to get into conflict or bad service resolution though. .

my problem is that a few places ive worked at have seemed awesome from the outside but not when you join.

my friend who im coding with joined a million dollar company that was a full ms gold partner or whatever that had no build server and a single 17" monitor at his workstation.

the point is just to sort of let you know what you're getting yourself into. their WiFi policy, can you wear headphones etc etc

i worked at a company that was fully agile and had really good code coverage according to the interview. when i got to my desk on day one i asked the dude next to me where the unit tests were at and he laughed at me .. told me he heard im the guy thats finally going to get unit testing going....

it's not a dealbreaker but it woulda been nice to know going in what to expect. eventually when we pass a certain threshold we want to allow you to drill into a score and see their average score per answer. we just can't do that yet because we don't have enough data.. so it will break the anonymity of the stats
 
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I think you have a good idea but you still have lots of work ahead of you!

Best of luck!
 
So Google login doesn't work? It asks for access, but goes back to the login screen, not actually logged in.
 
don't sites like this normal skew negative?
people are more likely to complain than praise.

good luck though
 
_kabal_ said:
don't sites like this normal skew negative?
people are more likely to complain than praise.

good luck though
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Same goes with Hello Peter. And suggestion boxes at shopping malls. And everywhere else.
 
well we are trying to curtail that by giving only certain options rather than an empty complaints form. i mean you prolly could skew negative and whine about always working overtime when it's really once a month or whatever but hopefully the averages will stop this...

also there's a problem with the site. i didn't really look at it last night but by monday morning it will be ready to roll.

typical dev bs, honestly been running fine on azure for a month, just with 3 or 4 testers no problems.

day you show someone? that's the day azure goes bonkers, elmah stops working and new relic rolls a nee version that breaks stuff. .
 
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