Candor

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?

Love this idea! It’s really hard to get a sense of the manager / team / company you are joining through the interview process unless you know people that work there / have worked there before. Curious if you can share more about what you are seeing resonating so far with your users and some things you all are excited to address going forward?

This will be a game changer for every new grad trying to evaluate offers from different companies. The narrative should shift from picking the right company to picking the right manager especially at larger organizations. Hopeful Candor can drive that shift!

Kudos Makers!!! Accountability and transperency is often lacking when it comes to culture and “top management” in startups up-to 100 employees. By definition, such org systems are not yet formed in early stage startups — with founders not necessarily attuned to “managing people”. In a world where young talent is more motivated to work for startups, as opposed to corporates with such accountability structures may exist, there is a huuuge vulnerability gap. Huge need

Love to see it! Have seen too many super talented people join companies with way too little info on the people they're joining. Candor solves for this, particularly for anyone early in their careers without big networks to draw from. Excited to see them launch today!