I am in the process of designing a website for law students and lawyers looking for a jobs at law firms. The site would basically list user names of users and (1) tier of school they attended, (2) rank at that school, (3) firms they applied to, (4) whether they received a callback, (5) whether they received an offer, and (6) offered salary if they received an offer. You could then search by school or by firm to see comparable users and who obtained what types of jobs.
I am just trying to gauge some interest before I put in the time and effort here.
This would be an excellent resource, if you could pull it off. Lawschoolnumbers was amazing for applications- and the job process is so much more difficult. However, here's the various problems.
1. Confidentiality. How are you going to build that trust. People don't like to disclose these types of things, and people don't like to disclose failures. Also might be hard to ween out false submissions.
2. "Tier of school?" That's completely unhelpful. You need more granular data- but the more granular, the less anonymous. If you have exact school ranking, and exact school rank, then it's no longer anonymous. Too fluffy (tier of school, quartile of school ranking) and it's not helpful enough.
3. Salary is widely known for most large- and mid-size firms. This would be most helpful for the smaller firms.
4. Network effects- this website only becomes useful as more people use it.
Just spitballing here- if you can pull this off, it would be amazing. In addition, if you can make it a viable property, someone will want to buy it.