Senior Support Supervisor
My opinions about the gig economy aside (which are mixed—I see the benefits and the considerable downsides), DoorDash's Careers page hero is very, very red and legit hurts my eyes.
My opinions about the gig economy aside (which are mixed—I see the benefits and the considerable downsides), DoorDash's Careers page hero is very, very red and legit hurts my eyes.
Automatic BINGO! Damn, I don't think that's ever happened so fast. (It's the first thing you see on Ramp's Careers page).
I can literally go on any website right now and find someone's dumb opinion. You're reading my dumb opinion right now. Why are we doing this.
I know, there's someone out there who loves this kind of thing. But I can't help but read that as, "we have no idea what it takes to actually run Support or Trust & Safety in this space and therefore we have unrealistic expectations for this role and have no idea how to meaningfully support it."
This role is very similar to the other Product Support Specialist role, and so I have the same questions about leveling. But again, everything else is good, and the pay range makes sense for what seems to be a slightly more senior role.
Scream it with me: BEEEEEEEENEFITS AAAAAAAARE NOOOOOOOOOT PEEEEEEEEERKS
Really puts that DEI statement into perspective, though. "We encourage underrepresented minorities to be underpaid in this role, which will affect their future compensation for years, if not forever."
Very straightforward Trust & Safety role; nothing jumps out at me as particularly concerning, and the pay is excellent. You'd be working for OpenAI.
The new JD is much shorter (I've pasted it below, above the old one), but it has many of the same problems as the original. It should still be a more senior title, it still doesn't list any actual benefits, and there's still no salary transparency. In BINGO it remains!
It's probably a little pathetic how easy it is to get me on your side as an AI company. Oh, you're doing the bare minimum? WOULD YOU LIKE A COOKIE?
Look, I'm being kind by only putting this in BINGO.
I'm sorry, the fuck? You want this role to build out its own completely separate product development function to fix a product so seemingly broken that even the Engineering, Product, and Design teams don't want to deal with it anymore? ARE YOU KIDDING ME
Still just vibes, still a BINGO.
Since they're expecting candidates to operate on vibes only, so am I! And my vibes tell me this is a BINGO.
Can we just acknowledge that maybe it is recklessly, unforgivably irresponsible to allow 20-somethings who appear to have no professional experience before 2022 to be in charge of AI products that could destabilize democracies?
This is essentially a Director role with engineer duties, and right now, the salary is only compensating for one of those things.
Maybe it's just me, but it feels like they're asking this Director position to do a lot. It almost reads as if they asked ChatGPT for a Director of Support & Ops job description and then didn't whittle it down at all to fit this specific role.
This job seems fine if very, very corporate.
I continue to wish that Anthropic would address how they're mitigating the mental health risks of Trust & Safety work, and there are some minor flags ("fast-paced environment," hello darkness my old friend), but it's a solid Eh, It's Probably Fine.
Overall, I'm going to put this in Eh, It's Probably Fine, with a caveat that I really think anyone applying to this role ought to press hard on the "demonstrate grace under pressure" bit.
Can we not? Can we just not require a T&S professional to have a "fun" attitude, especially when you haven't given any space to explaining how you'll care for their mental well-being? Ugh. Honestly, that pisses me off enough to put this into Tread Carefully.
Genuinely one of the most diverse companies I've seen so far. And the rare case where a company claims diversity as a value and is clearly backing that up with their hiring. Cool!
Maybe they should have had Siena review this job listing before they posted it.
But I thought this is what Siena was for? Are you saying you need humans to support humans? Real food for thought.