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Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees

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Re: Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees

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Post by tomatotomato37 »

ta1548177231 wrote: post #52

And that's why there is Blind https://www.teamblind.com/articles/Topics I highly recommend everyone signs up their company and gives honest feedback there. Closing the Asymmetric Information gap will only help workers (the vast majority of us) make better choices about where to work, how much to charge employers and what really goes on (not the propaganda campaigns that are online resources and interviews)

The level of discourse on this place is horrid; it's like a SV 4chan.

Why does a workplace opinion site need a "relationships" category anyway?

Re: Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees

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Post by johnmarcus »

Glassdoor is a joke. I left negative reviews for FigureEight (previously Crowdflower) and they immediately went into review and were then deleted. The positive reviews there are so obviously fake. ("cons: only one shower") lol.

They have had several rounds of layoffs and yet their reviews stayed positive. Only now I see a few negatives are creeping through the cracks as I'm sure the onslaught of negative reviews is much greater than what's posted.

Anyway, stay away from FigureEight, they have extremely shady employee practices and have to be one of the worst companies in SF I've experienced or witness. The only condolence I have is I see the entire C-team has been fired or left. It's a dumpster fire.

Anyway, yeah, Glassdoor is trash.

Re: Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees

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Post by Reedx »

fuzz4lyfe wrote: post #32

I've had negative reviews flat out removed by a company that was paying glass door for some sort of premium service. I extensively reviewed the rules and reworded my comments and they were removed yet again. My points were fully factually true and were not anything too untoward (pay raises were promised to members of a new team, they never materialized, most team members left). For what it's worth, Path Forward IT is…

> removed by a company that was paying glass door for some sort of premium service

Is there any proof of this? Source?

Re: Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees

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Post by yasp »

decebalus1 wrote: post #71
yasp wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is Blind? Went to blind.com and didn't seem to be what you were referring to.

Say goodbye to the rest of your day: https://www.teamblind.com/articles/Topics

They want to offer anonymous communication but still demand to know my employer and personal identity. How about no?

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Post by victor9000 »

muttech wrote: post #119
sevensor wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Flexibility works one way there A former boss put it like this, "Sure we have flex time! You can arrive any time before 8 and leave any time after 6."

That brings back bad memories of my first day at a new job. We had discussed in the interview that they were flexible with the time I got there. On the first day, one of the first questions I was asked: New Boss: "So, what time will you be here every day?" Me: "I thought we had discussed that being flexible as traffic can be unpredictable?" New Boss: "We are flexible on the time, but you have to be here by that time…

This was the policy I implemented with my team and everyone thought it was pretty reasonable. It's basically pick your schedule, but stick to it. Otherwise scheduling meetings becomes unmanageable. That being said, I was also very clear about the policy during the interview process.

Re: Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees

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Post by AngeloAnolin »

aiisahik wrote: post #117

Nobody should on Glassdoor to determine if they should work at a company. One should always rely on back channel contacts, preferably of people who no longer work at that company. Can one of you smart people here at HN develop a Glass Door competitor that only allows FORMER employees to review a company?

Having FORMER employees do some authentic reviews for companies they've last left is also quite difficult - in the sense that this person may fear the repercussions should they write something about the company that places the organization in a bad light.

One way I can think of is a service, where companies sign up, and let potential employees be able to speak in an anonymous manner with real (albeit anonymized) employees so that real feedback on actual working conditions are provided. The key here though is that all current employees should feel safe that they are speaking about what's the real conditions of work at the workplace, as well as providing enough credibility to the applicant that they are actually speaking to someone working there.

Of course having companies sign up for this will be inherently difficult, as each company always wants to maintain their shining standards in any form, and does not want for only a group of certain individuals to tarnish their good(?) reputation.

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Post by whiskyant »

fuzz4lyfe wrote: post #32

I've had negative reviews flat out removed by a company that was paying glass door for some sort of premium service. I extensively reviewed the rules and reworded my comments and they were removed yet again. My points were fully factually true and were not anything too untoward (pay raises were promised to members of a new team, they never materialized, most team members left). For what it's worth, Path Forward IT is…

Blind is rapidly becoming the new glassdoor.

Re: Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees

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Post by Cyclone_ »

I've been a little skeptical at how overwhelmingly positive some of the reviews on glassdoor seem. There's ones that turn the cons into positives and seem like they were written by fake accounts. All jobs have at least some bad things, to say that there are none seems a little strange to me.

Re: Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees

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Post by weliketocode »

A past colleague of mine reached out to see if I had written a negative review on glassdoor. I left on good terms, but the company was going through some very real challenges.

Several scathing, albeit somewhat accurate, reviews had been written.

Looking now, all but one of the negative reviews have been removed.

In short, glassdoor is worthless.

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