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Re: A warning about Glassdoor

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Post by zarkov99 »

lordnacho wrote: post #197

Well I don't want to suggest this is the whole answer, but game theory in economics and evolution tend to say that signalling has to be expensive in order to be honest. So peacock's feathers and money-back guarantees are the type of thing that people often quote as signalling fitness. The point of Glassdoor or any other review site it to make signalling cheap and reliable, so it's trying to square a circle. Word-of-m…

That was well put. Nasseem Talib wrote a whole book about skin in the game and how it is essential for believability.

Re: A warning about Glassdoor

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Post by milkytron »

chaos986 wrote: post #208

I never look at comments for Glassdoor. I do check Salary info and leave my Salary info. Is that aspect being gamed as well and in what direction? advertising higher salary then what they would actually offer?

For the last two jobs I've taken, I looked at the Glassdoor salaries.

The first was right in the middle of the range Glassdoor stated. The second was actually much higher than what Glassdoor said, likely because I was joining a new team on a new project with a good budget.

Idk if it's being gamed. But if anything, I'd imagine it would be lower than what they would offer, simply because the data might be from employees that have started long ago and haven't gotten raises to match what a new offer would given for salary. As well as dated information (someone added their salary 3 years ago, but has gotten raises and hasn't updated their salary on Glassdoor).

Re: A warning about Glassdoor

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Post by quantified »

lrem wrote: post #222
passthefist wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A distributed trust network is a really interesting hard problem but does seem solvable in some ways (as seen by blockchains, though they have their own issues). I've wondered if a somewhat simplistic graph based solution could work, inspired by organizations like medieval guilds and the mafia, where you generally need to be invited to the trust network and promoted to be more trusted within the network as others vou…

Isn't this how recommendations in social networks work?

How many people in a "friends" list are people you actually know?

Re: A warning about Glassdoor

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Post by cranium »

lordnacho wrote: post #197

Well I don't want to suggest this is the whole answer, but game theory in economics and evolution tend to say that signalling has to be expensive in order to be honest. So peacock's feathers and money-back guarantees are the type of thing that people often quote as signalling fitness. The point of Glassdoor or any other review site it to make signalling cheap and reliable, so it's trying to square a circle. Word-of-m…

It's too bad that giving critical feedback in your own name (to show skin in the game) is going to burn you in other jobs. Few want an employee that can bite the feeding hand.

Interestingly, I tend to trust more some anonymous answer on Quora because the person won't get any upvotes to display on their profile so (hopefully) their only incentive was sharing their story.

Re: A warning about Glassdoor

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Post by strombofulous »

raydev wrote: post #225
mlrtime wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lous Rossmann goes over this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYzK8Nny_Yo

Rossman exploded on Reddit with an Apple device repair rant several years ago, and then leaned super hard into that to keep his views up. Much like Glassdoor, I find it hard to trust him since it’s clear he has a moneymaker. He’s incentivized to accuse the Big Corps of wrongdoing and he never has to back it up.

He owns a apple repair shop and complains about apple all the time. He just happened to go viral on reddit once (actually a few times). He makes most of his money from his repair business, his sitting-in-a-chair videos (that aren't about apple), and his bike videos are just him talking. I don't really agree with a lot of what he says (esp. about NYC) but I don't think he's being biased in this video.

Re: A warning about Glassdoor

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Post by yawz »

baron_harkonnen wrote: post #240
SirYandi wrote: post #232

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some amazing advice I have to say.

But I’m not sure it passes its own rules for advice worth listening to, which does create a bit of a paradox

1) It's his personal opinion 2) He doesn't have anything to gain from it

Re: A warning about Glassdoor

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Post by daltonlp »

bencollier49 wrote: post #135

I just visited the site and was met by a banner stating that trust was central to their product, and so they would never remove bad reviews. To my mind there must be some confusion here. I believe it's highly unlikely that they'd lie so directly. So something else must be going on, even if it happens to be the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. And even that's unlikely. More digging needed, I think.

> I believe it's highly unlikely that they'd lie so directly.

That's why lying so directly works so well!

In their T&C page, the "Removal of Content" section (6A) says they remove content, or portions thereof, at their sole discretion.

Trust IS central to their product. A direct lie usually begins with a true (or unfalsifiable) statement.

Re: A warning about Glassdoor

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Post by paulbjensen »

Yep. I’ve seen negative Glassdoor reviews disappear from a company I worked at a few years ago (I took screenshots as backup).

Scraping the site on a regular basis and taking screenshots is the only way to stop them from scrubbing the reviews.

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