9 Best Articles in 2021
The Washington Post
How merchants use Facebook to flood Amazon with fake reviews
The Washington Post
7 min read · 128 saves · From 2018 · A Post examination found the majority of reviews on some popular products appeared to violate the e-commerce giant’s policies.
Signal v. Noise
Getting from ⭐️⭐️ to ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ — Signal v. Noise
Signal v. Noise
6 min read · 118 saves · From 2016 · How to ask for reviews without feeling icky about it.
First Round
The Power of Performance Reviews: Use This System to Become a Better Manager
First Round
20+ min read · 81 saves · 2019-07-18 · Performance reviews are key to accelerating your report's career. A former Airbnb Product Lead shares the conversation template that he's used to build high-performing teams and motivate growth all…
Farnam Street
How Performance Reviews Can Kill Your Culture
Farnam Street
3 min read · 104 saves · 2019-11-25 · Performance reviews are designed to motivate and bring the best out of our teams, but they often do the opposite. Here’s how to bring out the best in your people.
Stack Overflow
How to Make Good Code Reviews Better
Stack Overflow
8 min read · 71 saves · 2019-09-30 · I have been doing day-to-day code reviews for over a decade now. The benefits of code reviews are plenty: someone spot checks your work for errors, they get to learn from your solution, and the…
fakespot.com
Fakespot | Analyze and identify fake reviews
fakespot.com
1 min read · 33 saves · From 2015 · Fakespot spots, analyzes and identifies fake reviews - helping you out when buying stuff online.
conversionsciences.com
User Reviews: In-Depth Guide To Increasing Conversions With Reviews
conversionsciences.com
~11 min read · 22 saves · From 2017 · You already know that online reviews are a big deal. But what you may not realize is that you have a TON of available options for taking control of your user review profile. There are some insanely…
medium.com
Giving better code reviews
medium.com
4 min read · 69 saves · From 2016 · I take code reviews very seriously. It’s one of the crucial processes for ensuring the spread of knowledge transfer and best practices…
VICE UK
I Made My Shed the Top Rated Restaurant On TripAdvisor
VICE UK
~12 min read · 219 saves · From 2017 · And then served customers Iceland ready meals on its opening night.
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BBC News (World)
Fake Amazon reviews 'being sold in bulk' online
BBC News (World)
3 min read · 40 saves · Feb 16th · A Which? investigation found 10 sites offering fake Amazon Marketplace reviews from as little as £5 each.
Harper's Magazine
[Reviews] The Possessed, By Joshua Cohen
Harper's Magazine
20+ min read · 13 saves · Feb 16th · Philip Roth reviews his own biographer
Search Engine Land
Google announces product reviews algorithm update
Search Engine Land
2 min read · 14 saves · Apr 8th · Google has released a new quality algorithm update that promotes outstanding product reviews.
jessitron.com
Those pesky pull request reviews
jessitron.com
7 min read · 42 saves · Mar 27th · No one wants to review pull requests. This is a sign of a deeper problem than “people aren’t following the process”
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Bloomberg
Goldman Sachs Introduces Real-Time Employee Performance Reviews
Bloomberg
4 min read · 46 saves · From 2017 · Goldman Sachs Group Inc. introduced a new system for performance reviews this week, giving employees the ability to send and receive real-time feedback with managers throughout the year.
yeah-local.com
7 Data-Backed Reasons to Ramp Up Google Business Reviews in 2017
yeah-local.com
8 min read · 29 saves · From 2017 · 7 Data-Backed Reasons to Ramp Up Google Business Reviews in 2017 Google business reviews and reviews in general matter more than ever before. Consumers are turning to them more often to make…
vpnreport.org
VPN Report | Honest reviews of the top VPNs
vpnreport.org
3 min read · 34 saves · From 2017 · I tested the top VPN providers using my credit card to find the best ones — and which ones you should avoid.
Harvard Business Review
Study: Replying to Customer Reviews Results in Better Ratings
Harvard Business Review
5 min read · 17 saves · From 2018 · An analysis of tens of thousands of hotel reviews on TripAdvisor.
defmacro.substack.com
How to get promoted
defmacro.substack.com
8 min read · 205 saves · 2020-09-28 · Almost everyone who does great work toils in relative obscurity. Performance reviews are social fiction. How do people really advance through the corporate hierarchy?
Steven Sinofsky
Performance of Performance Reviews
Steven Sinofsky
~20 min read · 42 saves · From 2018 · Realities, attributes, and coping tips for any company, startup to bigco, performance review system.
The Verge
iPhone X review: face the future
The Verge
~20 min read · 152 saves · From 2017 · The iPhone X is clearly the best iPhone ever made. It’s thin, it’s powerful, it has ambitious ideas about cameras, and it pushes the design language of phones into a strange new place. But FaceID is a…
mtlynch.io
How to Do Code Reviews Like a Human (Part One)
mtlynch.io
~15 min read · 85 saves · From 2017 · Lately, I’ve been reading articles about best practices for code reviews. I notice that these articles focus on finding bugs to the exclusion of almost every other component of a review. Communicating issues you discover in a constructive and professional way? Irrelevant! Just identify all the bugs, and the rest will take care of itself.
Inc.
5 Ways Bad Reviews Can Actually Be Good for Your Business
Inc.
4 min read · 37 saves · From 2017 · Every company gets bad reviews. Find out how to use yours in a positive way.
