Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees

Post by Gibbon1 » Wed, Jan 23, 2019, 2:04 AM UTC

NorthOf33rd wrote: post #73

sevensor wrote: post #56

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Run from any prospective employer who tells you, "we're like a family." They mean it an all the worst ways. Feuding, dysfunction, racist uncles, getting kicked out of the house.

I just sat through a company wide "Sensitivity Training" at my company (which I'm very much looking forward to leaving, and leaving a review for,) where "We're a family" was repeated ad nausium. I was a little shocked that this was coming from HR and Staff. It was almost a cultish call and response of bullshit. The reality is, we're not family. I don't have to be sensitive to my family. If I don't like them, I can sa…

Post by mrhappyunhappy » Wed, Jan 23, 2019, 2:19 AM UTC

tyfon wrote: post #208

philbarr wrote: post #184

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It's great to be able to do this but you need to have back ups first. So find a new job whilst "jokingly" suggesting to your boss you need a raise. Then you actually ask for a meeting and a raise and when he/she laughs you off as you knew they would you resign on the spot and go to your new job you had lined up. With the hope that he/she will see their mistake and not treat the remaining employees that way. The probl…

> The problem with this strategy is you can never go back. Reading all these stories about bad managers and stuff, do managers and employees take things personal in the US? So if you leave for a better deal you actually will make personal problems between employer end employee? Whenever someone under me quits for a better deal or another job that I can't match I tell them "good luck and thanks for the time you shared…

Post by renlo » Wed, Jan 23, 2019, 2:46 AM UTC

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…

Post by mushufasa » Wed, Jan 23, 2019, 2:55 AM UTC

freshhawk wrote: post #446

chongli wrote: post #349

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This tells me that Glassdoor is completely untrustworthy, just like Yelp. I wish there was some sort of business model for an honest review site that protected against this sort of naked corruption. Does anyone have any ideas?

Consumer Reports.

Post by shlomok » Wed, Jan 23, 2019, 3:11 AM UTC

DamnInteresting wrote: post #352

cs702 wrote: post #271

By and large, GlassDoor ratings are no longer a good measure of how well a company treats employees; they now measure, mainly, whether a company has the ability to engineer and maintain artificially good GlassDoor ratings. GlassDoor, in short, has become a textbook example of Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."[a] The same phenomenon is known in some contexts as Campbell…

> a textbook example of Goodhart's Law I had never heard of Goodhart's Law by name until about 45 minutes ago, while listening to an episode of Planet Money that originally aired last November. And here it is again. This is one of the more striking examples of the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon I've experienced in recent years.