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The Company Database is in the middle of some pretty dramatic improvements, including our ability to take some of the aggregated data and start graphing it on the Company Overview pages (as shown in the image above).
This is just the start -- we plan on showing data for Top Schools (from where does each firm recruit primarily), Diversity Metrics (race as a % if interviewees) among many other interesting and useful stats.
You'll notice that in this first iteration that we are displaying the % of interns given Full Time offers...if you have 2 offers from 2 banks, it should probably factor in your decision if one has a signficantly higher offer rate.
We are working on cleaning up the layout / theme some more and adding in some more awesome graphs and trying to give each stat meaning (right now, they are showing the absolute aggregated results, but would like to show percentiel rank to give people an idea of how that firm ranks vs. its peers as well)
...later this year we will also start to be able to show ranges - mean, median, min, max for compensation across a variety of job titles, groups and function...
Thank you again to all of you that have made this possible by helping build the database. We are always open to ways you think we can improve it.
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That looks pwetty
very cool
Cool.
Hey, just spitballing here: have you considered licensing your database to a larger information provider such as Bloomberg/factset/etc?
no, not yet...not a bad idea though. I wouldnt be against it, but I think we need to reach much larger scale before ever considering that. Maybe in a few years...
Great work!
....they're how you'd reach a larger scale. Start off as a specialty product. You can expand this platform across multiple industries.
Let's face it, in your current capacity, growth is going to flatline after a certain point. Start putting out feelers now while this niche is untapped and the only thing resembling competition is the laughing stock that is glassdoor. Again, just throwing the idea out: you can continue adding chotchkis to this site or you can start looking for new revenue streams.
ouch, "chotchkis", lol
I don't disagree with you regarding new revenue streams, I'm just not sure how we'd get a white labeled version built for a 3rd party for Bloomberg that could take on new entries (complex database work if it is to be passes across servers). We collect a lot data per entry compared to glassdoor, so I do think that over time we will become the best resource for the finance niche, I'm just not sure what type of deal you are proposing?
You're saying we should give access to CapIQ and/or Bloomberg to the aggregated data by company, and position, for example? I think that is a great idea assuming we're just providing them a feed of aggregated stats, but again, I think it becomes even better when we reach a bit more scale...ie 1,000+ reviews/comp data etc for EACH bulge bracket at least...we are getting there, I just think that is a bit premature.
So, at least for now, the primary goals are to improve our content, continue to add chotchkis to the site to improve engagement and improve our back-end / speed.
Thanks for the thoughts!
Great stuff, Patrick!
Don't get me wrong, most of the new features are pretty cool even if I don't like the reply to feature and the fact that my work blocks the capatility to use both that and the quote feature.
I'm just looking through some of the data sets and thinking that people not aware of WSO would definitely like to take a look at this sort of thing. Whether it can be expanded to other industries, or what the licensing arrangement would be, I have no idea. I guess it's a lot more work than just "getting some $$$ for a data feed", so in Patrick we trust.
Thanks for hearing me out, I'd like to think you'll become the next tech billionaire. Lord knows you've put the time in.
Bug or Work in Progress? All companies show the same Interview Experience and Interview Difficulty charts. Same break down when you hover over the different sections.
The database itself is great stuff though. Porps!
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