Welcome to the WatRank GitHub Organization! We're building a platform that helps University of Waterloo students on their job search by crowdsourcing data that would benefit everyone to make informed decisions.

TL;DR: A more searchable, personalized WaterlooWorks megathread. Not a replacement—but a companion. There are two main features:

Many people often ask, "Has anyone heard back from ___?" It's frustrating to be in the dark about whether a job has started giving out interviews, OAs (online assessments), and offer calls, or if they've already moved on with other candidates.

• Some companies use WaterlooWorks' interview feature to update statuses, but many don't. The best option right now is to ask around in the megathread or through word of mouth.
• There's no OA status on WaterlooWorks, and OAs are often the first step in the hiring pipeline. Additionally, there's no indication for companies that give offers via "offer calls."

A crowdsourced job status table.

• You can go to WatRank, bulk import the jobs you've applied to with just two keystrokes, and instantly see the contributions of others: their status updates for those companies.
• When you contribute a job status, you can also add comments about how hard the interview was or the overall vibes, helping others gauge the process.

• Trolls: Like all crowdsourced data, it's only useful if enough people participate. However, we can moderate troll users since everyone logs in with their uWaterloo email.
• Accuracy: It's not 100% accurate (neither is the megathread), but with enough contributions, the signal outweighs the noise.

The most popular comment in the megathread is, "Is anyone taking ___?"

• You want to maximize your rankings. If someone already accepted an offer for a job, there's no point in you ranking it highly.

Again, a crowdsourced job status table, but this time it's for ranking statuses.

• For a job, you can see whether someone has accepted the offer or not.

• Bad actors: We've considered how users might try to manipulate the system with false data. However, there are a few checks in place:
  • Each user (linked to their uWaterloo credentials) can only accept one offer. Since you can't rank more than one job as your #1 choice, this limits manipulation.
  • Declining an offer is a different case, as you can receive multiple #1 rankings from employers, but we think this is less impactful because it doesn't significantly affect the ranking process.

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