Glassdoor

I've been using GD for several years. It's helpful in fleshing out potential companies/jobs to apply to but I would caution people against taking the 5 star positive reviews seriously if they're short, which more than likely means those reviews are "fake."

Companies are most likely paying review farms for positive reviews and/or they're asking employees to write positive reviews. I myself saw and heard the COO of a company I worked for walk into the main office and ask workers to write reviews for them. If they had been a good company, then they'd just have good reviews already, but this is the problem; bad companies pad their reviews with the fake stuff and GD has no posting screen for these (like a minimum review length).

I have seen scathing, long, negative reviews mysteriously disappear and I recently got a request from GD to "resubmit" a long, negative review I wrote that had been on the site for several months, because, in part: "While your review meets our Community Guidelines, we need you to re-verify it as an honest statement in order for us to keep live on Glassdoor."

Not sure exactly what that means because they were too vague for me to glean anything substantive from their mysterious email, but of course I'm guessing that the subject of the review complained or threatened GD, which could mean I might be looking at a lawsuit at some point. If so, it'd be awful nice if GD could tell me what the beef is.

Then, I get an email from them telling me I still need to "to verify that you stand behind your review," which I had already done. When I attempt to do this AGAIN, I get an error.

These days, people are getting sued for leaving negative reviews for companies online and it feels like GD does not stand behind review contributors.

Glassdoor is the worst ever company to leave a review.
They deleted my review about Northumbria university because it was only 1 star!.
Probably the ceo of the university is too ashamed of the mess and glassdoor immediately deleted it.
They are unfair and approve only the review approved by the companies they pay them.
Totally avoid and do not trust their faked positive reviews.
Moreover they do no have respect of our privacy because they collect our details if we want to write a review

Companies are hiring freelancers overseas now to write fake positive reviews. They are staying within Glassdoor's "rules" and using different IP Addresses and spacing out the reviews so it's not as suspicious. Unfortunately Glassdoor doesn't seem to be catching these reviews or deleting them so it's skewing companies to look better than they actually deserve / are. Anyone with half a brain can see these reviews are fake b/c the English is poor and they are very short but they help inflate the companies overall rating. Beware.

I posted an review on Glassdoor re my previous company, who is an unscrupulous employer refused to compensate employees by law for 13 years, half of the team in our office (13 ppls) gone in 2020, company required existing employees to sign legal document to give up their legal rights. A week later I found out Glassdoor removed my review secretly without any explanation. It is terrible. What Glassdoor did is going to make more victims in future, people deserved to know the truth and have a choice before they step into a trap!

Don't trust Glassdoor they are not reliable do not use them as a reference! They picked side and chose to close their eyes and see no just.

I read the negative reviews on several companies i worked for and very few are NOT true or exaggerated. Maybe after reading those bad reviews the employer took action for doing better but nonetheless those reviews were useful about business mismanagement. A normal person should post an honest review to prevent more incidents in the future it's like giving blood. Glassdoor is among the last few line of defence from abusive employers due to a weak labor board who accept an employee to be terminate without a fair reason too often. Employers need to be more accountable and put in writing their reasons for termination to be send to the labor board for approval otherwise the job security is nonexistent. Deleting a bad review after it was accepted and posted on a review site is corruption by both the site and the employer. What can be done to change this, any suggestion?

Absolutely no fact checking. They have allowed a single disgruntled employee that was fired during his 90 day probation period for being completely inept and lazy to post 10+ negative reviews. The review content is completely made up. What an absolute waste of time. I have no idea how they stay in business.

Reviews constantly removed for no legitimate reason other than an obviously generic response. Nothing in my review contravened the stated guidelines and as such it is clear Glassdoor have some kind of agenda, what this is I do not know

"Thank you for your inquiry. As we express in our Community Guidelines, if we suspect that a review is bogus in any way, we will reject it. In our pursuit of authenticity, we do not allow individuals to manipulate the conversation in an effort to make their own voice more heavily weighted. Each individual should submit only one review, per employer, per year, per review type (e.g. Company review, interview review, salary review, benefit review, etc.) Your content should be related to jobs you have held (or interviews you have had) within the last five years so it's relevant to today's job seeker.

Regards,
Taylor Sage
Glassdoor Content & Community Team"

I created a new email address and used it at Glassdoor, nowhere else. Several weeks later my inbox was littered with spam from a site called 7 cups. They're either selling your info or don't care about securing data.

I have had several people obtain my personal information from this website. They text and email with bogus offers it's disheartening when I'm seriously searching for a job and these scammers are taking advantage of a tenuous situation. I hope someone will join me on filing a class action lawsuit against this site.

Awful. Unfair. Bribed by companies.

They post reviews and then if the company that you are posting about doesn't like it, they come down... fast.

Glassdoor is a JOKE.

Shame on you... we need Arnold Diaz to investigated you guys.

I used to post what I consider the truth without shaming anyone by name. Now, the site keeps forcing ridiculous policy decisions on the reviewers like you can't even mention titles of the persons who interviewed you i. E. (PM, DM, DC... etc).

Noticed this recently every time they update their rubbish policy. Obviously, the company CEO is afraid of his own people in the first place posting bad reviews about them.

Good idea of a service and poor implementation. I have an account on Glassdoor for a long time, but there are always problems with it. They do not public my reviews, and once the account was banned. It's annoying

What a terrible company and complete scam. Source disgruntled employee reviews, lure victim companies into web to address bad reviews, then have sales people sell services to manage reputation. Where is the Department of Justice - seems like a criminal enterprise masquerading as a solid business.

Used to be a credible site, but now operate in a very shady manner and it seems they have pivoted from being somewhere you can get an open and honest picture of a workplace to a phoney corporate marketing site. My review was removed for supposedly violating their community guidelines, but having read and adhered to their guidelines in the process of writing the review, I knew that this was untrue. My only crime was having a negative opinion of a ghastly employer.
So, while employees are not allowed to post their true experiences, Glassdoor freely allows unscrupulous employers to submit endless numbers of obviously fake 5 star reviews (my former employer was well known for doing this).
I won't use their worthless website again.

Signed up with them a few months ago when I was searching for a part time job to work on the side. Their searches often would produce the same results as many other job banks, but when you subscribe to updates by email, they're annoying and useless as all out. Every notification I would get from them was advertising jobs on other states which does nothing but clog up my email account with junk. Also, it seems there's a lot of redundancy involved when applying for jobs through this search bank. It's nothing more then a waste of valuable time for anyone who is serious about looking for work and wanting to find entry level employment into a career.

This company is damaging our company reputation by allowing bitter ex employees to post untruthful and racist data. Not only that but their sales teams have been aggressively chasing us to use their services, job advertising and employer branding to capitalise on the damage they already created it. Nobody there listens, they have a customer service team for what? They never replied to me. As a result of major irritation due to their overly aggressive and unprofessional sales team, I contacted their CEO on LinkedIn in a desperate plea for help. Surprise! Nobody ever got in touch with me.

This site allows anonymous reviews with no merit or proof of what is written. They will not remove an "anonymous" review on my company, that was made by an employee fired for mishandling cash. The employee gets to write a bad review, but I have no recourse. A class action suit should be filed against them, by all of us that may have suffered damage by Glassdoor.

Glassdoor was good in 2009, when new. But then it became big and companies started "managing" their online reputations. Companies can, and do, reviews themselves positively as many times as they like. I looked at my old company which has a HORRIBLE rep in real life and it has 4 stars on Glass Door. Obvious scam.

Like a barter system--you want something, you must give something. You cannot read any employer review unless you create an account. Immediately, it asks you to rate your own company and rate an interview. I guess that's how they build up data so quickly.

It has been helpful in several ways: primarily the reviews from employees working at various companies, although some have been written obviously by management to counter terribly negative reviews; also, the pay estimates, although they are only estimates and should not be used to base an answer to a query of what salary you are looking to receive; and some of the job offerings.

Really, both of these sites use the same business model in that they work on your site's reputation and credibility. But glassdoor frames itself as a recruitment and hiring platform and has better interface overall, that's why it ranks higher on most SEO pages for businsses over sitejabber.

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Surprisingly useful. I have many years of work experience, and am new to this state. Glassdoor replaces what I would have found out from my network in my home town. Company's rating, interviews, salary, all the critically important stuff. I would not think of accepting a job offer without checking out Glassdoor. Of course, one must "read through the lines", since there will be some disgruntled employees, and some "glowing write-ups" not inline with most people's assessment. But overall, it very good.