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Checkr: Background Checks & AI-Powered Verification Platform
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Checkr: Background Checks & AI-Powered Verification Platform is the company blog at checkr.com, writing about career and business. Since 2016, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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21HN people?
2016–2025first – last linked?
Too few sampled comments (23) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Checkr as a background-check provider, usually when discussing hiring, gig-economy driver screening, or fair-chance hiring. Its job postings also appear in Who is hiring threads.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 23 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The AI-powered verification platform for high-stakes decisions. Fast, accurate background checks at scale.
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Maybe allow taxis to pay for a background check. https://checkr.com/ Also it would be easy enough to allow someone to send an invoice with their own payment options.
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on “LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft”Submitted E-Commerce Tactics Tech Employers Can Use to Improve the Candidate Experience as a story · 6 points
HN discussionincluding a YC-backed firm that does this explicitly. I find it sad/humorous that they have copy about "connecting companies with a more diverse set of candidates" while essentially selling a service for streamlined filtering out this pool of people. I get the need in certain circumstances, just get tired of companies trying to have it both ways. https://checkr.com/company
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on “My friend starts her job today, after learning to program in prison”Submitted Enduring Lessons from Remote and Hybrid Work as a story · 1 points
HN discussionCheckr | http://www.checkr.com | San Francisco | Full-stack Engineer, Back end Engineer, Product design lead About Checkr: Checkr provides modern and compliant background checks for global enterprises and startups. Since graduating Y-Combinator in 2014, Checkr’s product has shifted the on-demand economy. More than 3,000 businesses trust Checkr for their background screenings including Uber, Instacart, Handy, Zenefit…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)”Checkr | Backend Engineer | SF | https://checkr.com/ Checkr provides modern and compliant background checks for global enterprises and startups and is on Forbes list of next $1bn starups. http://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/2016/10/19/next-billi... Looking for: * Backend Engineer * Full Stack * Product Design Lead Requirements: * 4+ years of relevant experience * onsite in SF compensation is competitive. email me…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)”Checkr ( https://checkr.com/ ) is looking to hire devs with 4+ years of relevant experience. Company is 2.5 yrs old, 100ppl, 20 engineers, already quite profitable, a lot of fun :). Just built a brand new office in SOMA. http://bit.ly/checkr-full-stack http://bit.ly/checkr-backend-eng http://bit.ly/checkr-ml-eng ping me with questions at linkedin.com/in/rexsalisbury
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017)”Checkr ( https://checkr.com/ ) is looking to hire devs with 4+ years of relevant experience. Company is 2.5 yrs old, 100ppl, 20 engineers, already quite profitable, a lot of fun :). Just built a brand new office in SOMA. http://bit.ly/checkr-full-stack http://bit.ly/checkr-backend-eng http://bit.ly/checkr-ml-eng if you wanna check out the office come by march 29 for a meetup we're hosting. https://www.meetup.com/fin…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017)”Checkr | Backend Engineer | SF | https://checkr.com/ Checkr provides modern and compliant background checks for global enterprises and startups and is on Forbes list of next $1bn starups. http://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/2016/10/19/next-billi... I'm starting there shortly as a backend engineer and was very impressed by the team, culture and business :) compensation is very competitive. email me at rex DOT sali…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)”Checkr | San Francisco, CA | Onsite | https://www.checkr.com Checkr is redefining the background check, facilitating a fair and scalable process for the new and ever-changing world of work. Our background: • Profitable • $100M Series C in early 2018 • Member of the YC S14 class • More details: https://www.keyvalues.com/checkr We're hiring for a range of positions and teams: • Directors of & Senior Engineering manage…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)”Checkr | Software Engineers & Product Managers | Full-time | Remote, San Francisco, Denver https://checkr.com/company/careers/open-careers Checkr got started in 2014 as the first API focused pre-employment background check provider. Our mission is to build a fairer future by designing technology to create opportunities for all. We believe all candidates, regardless of who they are, should have a fair chance to work.…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)”As far as I'm aware, the state of play in tech is far more welcoming to formerly incarcerated people than this thread would imply. Justice Through Code at Columbia University is designed to place formerly incarcerated and criminal legal system-involved individuals in tech roles, and has had a lot of success placing its alumni at big tech companies [1]. And this is largely for entry-level tech workers. Checkr is a co…
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on “Ask HN: Any felons successfully found IT work post-release?”for the haters downvoting: https://checkr.com/company/mission
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on “Ask HN: Any felons successfully found IT work post-release?”I am as well. *edit: Looks like it's at https://checkr.com
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on “Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?”Does Checkr ( https://checkr.com/ ) solve this problem? Or is it more complicated than that?
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on “Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?”Author's employer, Checkr [0], "provides modern and compliant background checks for global enterprises and startups". [0]: https://checkr.com
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on “My favorite day of the month is bank statement day at my company”If it helps, I've seen https://checkr.com/ , https://www.accurate.com/ and https://www.hireright.com/ used for these type of checks. I don't know if you can do one-off checks, but if you can get one done on yourself, you can see what info they are providing before you have to do it.
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on “Ask HN: Advice for passing a FAANG background check with a criminal history”There are a good number of companies and open source projects in that space, that help with your Uber-for-X business. A few examples below - 1. Background checks for service providers - https://checkr.com 2. Asset Tracking & Analytics - https://www.hypertrack.com/product
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on “The Servant Economy”Regarding the fingerprint background checks - there is an enormous business opportunity here for someone willing to navigate a heavily regulated government market. In California, criminal records are stored at the state level in a biometric database, based on fingerprints. If you wanted to get your state-level criminal record, you'd have to get your fingers scanned at by a "LiveScan" operator. LiveScan devices are e…
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on “Lyft and Uber to Halt Operations in Austin After Voters Reject Proposal”> Is the issue the cost of fingerprint checks? Can't fingerprint checks be made cheaper? The logistics and costs are both high. Honestly I'm all for background checks but fingerprinting is completely unrealistic. There are a lot of on-demand services nowadays some of which drive you places, others go into your home. I can't imagine Uber and Lyft will be the only ones required to do fingerprinting eventually. Someone…
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on “Lyft and Uber to Halt Operations in Austin After Voters Reject Proposal”Is the issue the cost of fingerprint checks? Can't fingerprint checks be made cheaper? Isn't there a YC company that is in the background check business? Edit: Ah yes, https://checkr.com/
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on “Lyft and Uber to Halt Operations in Austin After Voters Reject Proposal”Like this one? https://checkr.com/our-technology/ai-powered
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on “Google pulls AI model after senator says it fabricated assault allegation”no, if efficiency were your primary concern, then you would work to lower the adverse action rate of 11%, because typically you need to manually review each potential adverse action to avoid violating the FRCA when you reject the candidate. "clear" records require no manual review (obviously) so are more efficient than finding adverse records. by contrast, uber & lyft are able to do background checks with less than…
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on “More than 8,000 ride-share drivers flunked Mass. background checks”Maybe? If so, they definitely missed me with the humor. https://checkr.com/ [Edit] You're probably right - I thought it was a poor attempt to engage. It's not far enough from the truth to be a parody for me.
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on “I Ran a Background Check on a Startup”Through the increasingly popular (and unreliable, and hard-to-dispute) background check service that SV has created. https://checkr.com/
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on “The End of My VC Career”
