Glassdoor

Bought out garbage review site, lack of honesty and integrity. Just use Google, don't waste your time

Found from experience of comparing reviews at places I've worked, not always fair to the companys listed.

The Glassdoor model is built on the following scam:

1. Solicit hate from disgruntled employee and competitors, by allowing anonymous posts
2. Encourage employers to post reviews by real employees to counter
3. Encourage employees to post responses to increase SEO
4. Spam employers to pay thousands to counter negative review positioning
4. Spam real employees with daily job offers and ads, encouraging them to leave
5. Remove employees from the business, and encourage the employer to use Glassdoor recruiting services for fees.

Their are no ethical approaches here.

Glassdoor manipulates reviews and statistics in order to generate PR by targeting larger tech companies and financial institutions as well as FMCG companies. They award their CEO's despite their having average reviews, in order to generate PR.

They put out masses of PR to stop any negative reviews of their business.

The flaw:
1. Employers get wise and stop posting responses
2. Employers get wise and stop having employees respond
3. Employers refuse to pay for blackmail review positioning techniques
4. Glassdoors model does not make $. Their sales team can not make targets as hate does not sell.

Glassdoor continues to raise funds from Silicon Valley investors to fund their numerous high paid staff but do not generate real revenue.

Their CEO Robert Hoffman is a bigoted fraud and his senior staff are aware of this and discuss internally between them. Their Head of Legal Brad Serwin is a fraud and a bully, as noted by his own team. The sales team believe it is a matter of time before the company is sold for it's data as targets are unachievable and the business model is simply not sound.

In order to respond to Glassdoor, take every opportunity to share this message and post on their videos on Google, Youtube and every social site.

Our country was not founded on free speech in order to have commercial Silicon Valley capitalists destroy reputations, and harm business. Our country needs action to defend this attack on our liberty and values.

First of all I have heard that the reviews and the info found on the site are actually not that reliable; many people have come forward and admitted that the company they work for ordered them to write fake reviews. I have also noticed that most companies do not even post anything about salaries or benefits... just what they want in a candidate leaving out entirely what you can expect from them.

But my main concern is how the site is now morphing into a website that it is just phishing for information. If you are registered you should be able to use the site, but now they have a feature that after 12 months you have to submit either salary info or post that you have a new job. I am currently still employed but looking so I referred back to this site to see if I could see anything about a potential company I'm looking into but they want this irrelevant info just for me to see these public reviews. They insist on you divulging your personal employment information but in my case the company I work for is a small, privately run company who doesn't even have a website so I am pretty sure they don't want all this info on some random site phishing for information. This never happened before either, I was able to search these reviews without any issue as it used to be public domain and all you needed to do was sign in. Still the reviews validity were likely in question but at least they weren't trying to phish for info you don't want to give.

Honestly with all the info out now about this site I wonder why it is still around? If companies can remove negative reviews and manipulate this info what good is it for job seekers? I won't be bothering with them in the future, unfortunately it seems like although as a society we are advancing technologically none of this is becoming helpful for searching out decent jobs. It's like companies all just lie and omit info, post fake reviews and in the end the worker who is just trying to get a decent job that suits them for long term employment is the one that gets shafted. This is a sad reality

A forum for the victum mentality. Great place for a career loser to cry like a baby before they go to the next short lived meanial task

For years I have used Glassdoor as an insight into the culture and overall attitude of current and former employees at companies I am interested in working for. I have always understood that there are going to be really good reviews and really bad reviews at any company. That is just the nature of the beast. In addition to the great and horrible reviews there were usually well throughout and written reviews that gave an honest insight into the pros and cons of working at a specific company.

I often found that I could get insight into things such as work/life balance, career opportunity, pay scale and raises, and the general culture and attitude of people who worked there. I also made an effort to contribute my own feedback and attempted to keep it updated as things improved or got worse.

About two years ago I left an employer for a better opportunity. I was unhappy working there overall and when I left I updated my review to indicate it was a previous employer and include my position. My review was written professionally and the balance of pros and cons was equally weighted. Many other reviews about the employer were very negative and the company overall rating was low.

After a couple of months I noticed in my contributions menu that my review had been removed. When I navigated to the company page there were about twenty new reviews that were raving about how great the company was. It appeared that all neutral and negative reviews were gone. Another interesting thing I noticed was that the company was now posting jobs and other information on Glassdoor.

Thinking I might have said something that violated Glassdoor rules I decided to write another review. I read all the rules posted on their site and again wrote a balanced review. Glassdoor approved this review but then about two months later removed it. I also watched new reviews get consistently posted and then they were removed a couple of weeks later.

Curious how this was happening I talked to a friend of mine who works in recruiting for large company. He informed me that as a paying member Glassdoor will take down just about anything they request. Also many companies flex their muscles and threaten lawsuits if content isn't removed.

After this experience I no longer have respect for Glassdoor or its reliability. It's sad that companies can manipulate a tool like this and prevent job seekers from properly evaluating a potential employer.

This site USED to be good, useful and honest - until this year or so (2016). I'd been using this site to leave HONEST reviews for several years - no problems, all reviews (even if they were negative) were approved and posted for ages with NO problems whatsoever. Until just recently, when I logged in and noticed that EVERY SINGLE ONE of my NEGATIVE (but honest and approved for MANY YEARS) reviews for ALL companies were all suddenly removed for "not following guidelines". (?!)

This is TOTAL NONSENSE because they were ALL APPROVED and were up on the site for years -- and all of a sudden, they "don't follow guidelines"? This is a bull$#*! excuse. Translation: GLASSDOOR HAS SOLD OUT TO EMPLOYERS WHO HAVE EVERY NEGATIVE REVIEW REMOVED AND ONLY ALLOW THE POSITIVE ONES TO REMAIN (even the ones that are so sickeningly sweet, it's GLARINGLY OBVIOUS the company managers wrote them!). Which creates a very FAKE and ROSY picture of even the worst, most scamming, cheating and terrible companies out there. So how is this helping anyone exactly?!

And to top it off, they don't even NOTIFY you of the removal(s)... SHADY...

I'm done with Glassdoor and NO ONE should waste their time writing ANY honest reviews on this page, because they will just reject or accept it and then randomly secretly delete it a few days later if it's not glowingly positive and unauthentically $#*!-kissing to the company in question. SHAME ON YOU, GLASSDOOR! You USED to be reputable, but I CLEARLY see this is no longer the case. As of 2016 and onwards, GLASSDOOR IS NON-LEGIT. Don't believe everything you read, ESPECIALLY on those companies that have mounds of glowing reviews and little else.

You can try it...
I've tried it for many times.
Perhaps you may get the result too..

Glassdoor is fabricated information, they reject reviews based on facts.