As a hiring manager, I couldn't trust resumes. My team wasted so much time on screening calls, only to find the candidates weren't a match. There was no real proof-of-work, and with AI now writing resumes, the noise is just getting worse.
As a candidate, it was just as frustrating. My past work didn't help me get better roles; it felt like I was starting over every single time because my performance signals were buried in old company HR tools that no one could see.
Would hiring teams be able to compare trust signals across different roles, or is the score designed to be role-specific?
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@anshu_kumari9 Superb question and thank you for asking this.
For now trustscore is independent of the role. While asking the questions, the reviewer needs to provide the details - what is the role of the reviewee and then the agent asks specific questions, but once the questions are asked, all of them feed into one trustscore. So to answer your question - if an analyst and a dev both have 90/100 scores, both of them are equally awesome!
Ota
Congrats on the launch! I'm wondering how you handle the anonymity guarantee on the reviewer side. If someone's network is small enough, a hiring manager could potentially narrow down who said what just from context. Is there a minimum threshold of reviews before a score is surfaced?
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@faithada A wonderful question - Yes you are right here. If the network is small then the reviewee can come to know who gave the anonymous review, but then the AI agent acts as the moderator when it sumamrises the review.. Agent asks specific questions and the reviewer has to answer. The reviewer directly does not give the review. This to a certain extent helps manage the anonymity.
connected it to my email and got three old coworkers to send reviews within a day, which was way easier than i expected. the score feels more honest than my linkedin endorsements ever did.
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@kaanyir0 Thanks for the feedback Kaan, can you please share the list of features you would want us to build?
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@kaanyir0 yes!!
LinkedIn recommendations are publicly visible and handpicked so everyone knows they're biased. Nobody writes a bad LinkedIn recommendation. Badge is the opposite on every level:
You don't have control on who reviews you.
Reviews are anonymous, so people tell the truth instead of saying what's polite
Structured and specific, Badge asks targeted questions about how you actually work, not just "write something nice about this person"
Reviews are verified to real work relationships, not just anyone who knows you
Quantified everything builds into a Trust Score that recruiters can compare across candidates. A LinkedIn recommendation tells you someone was liked. A Badge Trust Score tells you how well someone did their job.
Voquill
Interesting. Congrats on the launch!
What safeguards are in place to make sure anonymous reviews stay fair and aren't abused?
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@henry_habib Henry, Our AI agent probes detailed question on skill, interpersonal skills and the reviewer has to answer those. The Agent then summarizes those and converts them into a review. Our feature roadmap includes to make the agent as good as a human so that it can judge bias, toxcity and to ensure review is fair.
How do you handle situations where someone had a difficult manager but was highly respected by peers? Asking for a friend :D
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@krutiparekh16 So on Badge you could give an anonymous review for anyone not just manager. Your colleagues can give you a review. Our Agent will take the review so even though you have a difficult manager if your team mates have data about your work performance, one difficult manager review will not matter.
The agent-picks-the-panel design looks great, it removes the hand-curation flaw that previously made my LinkedIn recommendations useless as signal. One thing - rating systems drift toward the ceiling (Uber's 4.9 problem) and people with rough peer relationships might not join right? So scores may cluster high across the board. Is the Trust Score calibrated to force a spread?
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@artstavenka1 You are correct about the Uber 4.9 problem, that happens because all of them try to game the system. I have seen a lot of drivers asking for an 5 star rating. Now giving a 5 star rating is easier but spending 2 mins to chat with an agent may or may not be having the same clustering, We need to see what happens. But one thing i want to highlight. On badge you can review a person with their linkedin also. So the reviewee need not to be on badge. So a user don't need to be on Badge in order to be be reviewed.
Work- quality question for an SWE won't transfer to a marketer's role. So if someone switches industries, does their score reset or just carry over oddly?
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@brody_vincent You are right Skill based trustscore wont' transfer but basic character - hard working, smartness, etc wll transfer and in this age where people are transitioning a lot to other industries, the trust score will matter more. If I am hardworking as a SDE, I will definitely be hard working as an Interior designer.