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If you're interested in looking up the pros that a company has to offer, then Glassdoor is great.
If you're interested in the cons, then you have to go into Glassdoor knowing that information can be manipulated and/or inflated.
I'm not surprised. If you're interested in looking up the pros that a company has to offer, then Glassdoor is great. If you're interested in the cons, then you have to go into Glassdoor knowing that information can be manipulated and/or inflated.
This article kind of misses the entire point; Glassdoor and the rest of these "professional review" sites sell reputation management services to the company. They use the negative reviews to push other high margin services to the companies. The only one who should care about Glassdoor being gamed is Glassdoor executives; anyone looking for a honest and balanced review of a company workplace on Glassdoor is already ge…
https://help.glassdoor.com/article/I-m-an-employer-What-can-...
Of course the company ignored the bad reviews but thanked everyone who gave great reviews.
I'm not surprised. If you're interested in looking up the pros that a company has to offer, then Glassdoor is great. If you're interested in the cons, then you have to go into Glassdoor knowing that information can be manipulated and/or inflated.
If they can do that - game over, Glassdoor is useless. But I am capable of filtering through some fluff to get the honesty.
This happened at my previous company when they had bad glassdoor reviews. Every new person through the door, was sort of forced to write a glassdoor review. They would be given a nice welcome, some schwag, sell them on the company. People inevitably wrote good reviews, alas once the honeymoon period ended, they were in for a rude shock.
Before you had online reviews, people were stuck with either newspaper product reviews, in which case there would be a paper name and a writer's name attached, or celebrity endorsements, where at least you knew they were being paid.
With online reviews, even with real names, the person is as good as anonymous to you. There's no knowing their motivations, and you have to shake your old instinct to trust social proof. This is not as easy as it sounds because it's probably deeply ingrained in people.
Nowadays I rarely believe any kind of online review, and it's a bit tragic. I'm sure there's a lot of honest ones there, but a few bad apples...