Consolidated List of Things to Improve on WSO
Have been having some issues on WSO (specifically mobile app) that I thought would be easier to address here rather than via email or customer support. Feel free to give Patrick and the team some constructive criticism below.
1) Search Function (needs significant improvement)
2) Clicking links within WSO app inconveniently leads to a pop-up web-based link (that isn’t even automatically logged in on my personal WSO account) instead of directing me to article within WSO app
3) Have been restricted from +SB or MS people for past 2 weeks, with the error code “In order to vote on content” coming up with no additional explanation or ways to find what’s wrong. I’ve had my account for close to a year with >1000 bananas and SB/MS ratio of ~5.0
add a corporate and commercial banking forum.
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It’s called Wall Street Oasis not Big 4 Oasis bruh
Already exists on GoingConcern
Improve salary database form so that people don’t input their total comp as base salary. Salary should be clearly defined as base salary and bonus should be inputted on the same page right below it. Then have a total comp line that automatically adds the two so it’s clear to the person entering the data. People get this wrong it seems 50% of the time so lots of entries have inflated comp numbers.
This is my biggest issue as well besides the lack of app search functionality
Agreed on the search function. It feels so broken that just using google usually provides better results.
I'll also add onto the other guy's comment about company/salary database, the filters sometimes break the entire salary box (like putting in NYC, Generalist and getting an error).
Thanks for this. Can you give us maybe 1-2 examples on search specifically. As you can imagine with unlimited types of queries, it's not easy to make sure all types of searches are yielding good results... how different characteristics of a thread or content type is weighted can also make a huge difference (relevance, date, # of comments, etc...).
Thanks!
Noticed that when the WSO Monkey Bot lists it’s suggestions, users are not able to click on them without getting “undefined “ error code on Mobile App
I am floored that there is no "technical questions" forum. Literally the number one thing that is pretty hard to find on the internet that WSO could build a moat around is answers to not-straight-ahead accounting and finance questions - thinking like a cruder Stack Overflow for finance.
Would want to see it broken out between interview questions and modeling questions (so the prospects could get their info but not over-run the pension accounting and situation-specific treatment of NOLs).
I think that a lot of people on this forum would want to help out on questions like these, and there's some times when it's like 9pm and the associate/analyst just can't find the right person to ask at their firm, but they need to have a working model that night. I've seen really great threads that just get lost because they're categorized as RE or IB or whatever.
^ Big SB+ on this one
Agree with this but WSO does sell the interview questions as part of their course, so that would cannibalize their business
as the commenter said, it would be like Stack Overflow. I'm pretty sure Stack Overflow isn't taking away business from Leetcode.
I disagree, I think it would create a free, entry level product that would help bring many more eyeballs. I think that those college-aged prospects who have the money for the course have already made up their minds to buy, and are just comparing M&I vs. WSO vs. whatever other resources are out there. However, there is a massive group of people out there who would be drawn to the website by the free resource, and some % of them will convert into paid users.
Regardless, this is not the killer app I'm talking about - I'm talking about a professional-level Q&A platform for difficult finance and accounting questions that current employees are trying to work out without having to pull out their old accounting text books.
We are actually making a HUGE push toward more free content... just not in the forums, but under the revamped Resources section (can see the main categories under drop down at the top of the site or just go here: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/resources)
Here is an example of the free resources we have for interview questions so far: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/resources/interviews but there are a lot more coming...
- When topics get moved, it breaks the links in notifications. When you click on "XYZ has replied to your comment" it just shows as an empty page if the topic was moved to a different forum
- OT forum is getting out of control, and lots of people there don't seem to work in finance / don't contribute anywhere else on the website except to stir the pot with blatantly racist or otherwise inappropriate stuff on OT. Maybe restrict OT to people with a certain number of bananas earned elsewhere on the forum?
Smart one.
I agree with this 100%, but I think the unspoken problem WSO has is that these are their power-users. If you look at the comment history of the top commenters, most of them are around right-wing politics, with maybe 2-3 exceptions. Those guys are the ones who keep the website hitrate up, by posting the weekly "Should black kids really get extra help recruiting", WSO gets a thread with 100s of posts and I'm sure many multiples of that in hits. The only other thing that comes close is recruiting season, and Goldman only releases interviews once a year guys. Grievance politics sells.
You know they know this too - these trolls are verified users.
From a prior comment of mine on a similar post about blatant racism on WSO:
It's inevitable - you have a site aimed to help people break in. People from target schools have those resources already and so probably use the site less than those from semi and non-targets. White/Asian male students from semi and nontarget schools have the highest hill to climb to break in given they are over represented and don't have the pedigree/connections. As a result, you will get feelings of resentment overflowing - they feel that the black kids stole their offer (even though what usually happens, in my experience analyst recruiting at my EB, is that Kelley kids will get bumped from the interview list for Tanner from Trinity, who's dad set up a phone call with one of our top brass). Additionally, you've got a whole bunch of non-finance people on this site who love to spout hard right ideology, who amp up the rhetoric and suddenly you've got replacement theory posts with 25 up bananas (or whatever they're called).
I agree with this sentiment / reasoning, and not too much to do about those power users except have stronger content rules which it doesn't seem like WSO wants to do. but there's also a separate category of guys who are not forum regulars or finance guys, just stumble upon the website to post useless stuff. they come in with 20 bananas and start posting truly egregious shit that gets taken down fairly quickly... lots of mod work for people who aren't adding useful discussion or driving views because stuff gets taken down. I just counted 5 topics on the front page right now with blatantly racist/sexist stuff all posted by users with <1000 bananas.
Limiting OT to say 1,000+ bananas would take SOME of the incel crap off the site
If you believe the epitome of right-wing politics is blaming URMs for one’s own failures, you need to broaden your horizons and the people you speak to.
To be clear I’m not shilling or supporting all the content that is in OT. There’s a lot of poorly articulated racist pseudo-science that gets posted in some threads but in my experience most of it comes mostly from fairly new users. There are a few users who have more bananas that have posted outright racist garbage but I’d like to believe (although Im clearly biased) that most of the longer term active users try to carry out an intelligent discussion even if it does lean political at times.
Instant MS for cultural marxists promoting exclusively black recruitment programs and instant reply to remind those zombies that for people to feel empowered, they really need not to have the feeling of having to be empowered (especially by those with a white saviour complex). Oh and a reminder that those D&I programs are definitely not for arbitrary ESG metrics, appeasing the woke mob, and for publicity, but are definitely because your employer had a sudden need to fulfil their philanthropic tendencies and definitely not for commercial reasons whatsoever, your employer definitely cares about your trials and tribulations.
bookmarking comments doesn't work on mobile (at least on android, chrome)
Be able to shrink reply threads - kinda like Reddit does it
It would be nice to see a tech area added. Understand that this is Wall Street Oasis, not tech oasis, but many people have left finance for tech jobs on this forum. I enjoy the dispositions/personality types here much more than the ones on Blind, for example. Plus, tech is a legitimate exit opportunity these days, and it would be beneficial to have a place where folks can discuss specifics like comp and etc. just my two cents
Remember my account details! Why do I have to log in again every time I open the app on mobile
Update your app
I wouldn't mind having an option, when posting a thread, to only let certified users contribute. This would help weed out a lot of bullshit comments on serious threads from prospects who come on here just to repeat other shit they've read from other prospects, interns or Analyst 1s.
Right now I'm not certified because there is no point doing so, but I would definitely do it if there were certain big-boy discussions that only certified professionals could contribute to.
Totally agree with this. This might be another data point / thing for WSO to improve upon, but fwiw I was randomly certified a few weeks and did not provide any information for them to do so. Saw on another thread a Prospect said he had also been certified for no reason. just might open up a very large % of the user base instead of the quality experienced users you're looking for, unless WSO is proactively looking people up by email address or something.
we did this. almost nobody used it.
I had no idea this was a thing. Is this still on?
Thanks for listening, I know we aren't an easy bunch to deal with.
Hahaha okay I'll shut up then.
FWIW I think the website has always been awesome, it still is, and that you guys do a great job moderating it. Not your fault if the users choose to use the forums for silliness. Thanks for everything!
The search functionality would be nice. Is there an easy plug-in that would be cost effective? We use Searchanise for everything on the eCommerce side, not sure if there's a plug and play equivalent for content sites. Drupal makes it hard.
Thank you for this thread. Stay tuned for updates...we will reply directly in here as we make improvements.
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