Who tells us that these negative reviews are always true and not posted by some disgruntled or mentally ill employee or even someone who never worked there? I know it’s easy to side on the negative reviewer side on glassdoor but it’s an anonymous place and the employer has almost no chance of fighting back.
Glassdoor not so anonymous
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#72I just attempted to look at the reviews. There's an uncloseable pop-up telling you to log in. Normally I wouldn't bother, but curiousity got the best of me - I logged in with my Google OAuth. Not so fast - you haven't contributed to Glassdoor in the last 12 months, here's another annoying pop up and you cannot dismiss it until you do. Does anyone actually bother to use this dark pattern infused service?
There needs to be a non-profit version of this without all the desperate bullshit.
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Glassdoors business model is selling the ability to take down bad reviews. Why would they out their customers?
How do I pay Glassdoor to take down a review? Is that on their website somewhere?
The rumor has long been that they contact you about it. Presumably they figure it based on page views and review volume to determine your hiring rate and churn etc and sentiment analysis of your worst reviews so they aren't just shotgunning these offers at every company that has reviews on their site.
Just passing along rumors I have no particularly informed insight here or verifiable reason to believe this is true, though I do believe it's in the plausible-to-likely range.
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#74I just attempted to look at the reviews. There's an uncloseable pop-up telling you to log in. Normally I wouldn't bother, but curiousity got the best of me - I logged in with my Google OAuth. Not so fast - you haven't contributed to Glassdoor in the last 12 months, here's another annoying pop up and you cannot dismiss it until you do. Does anyone actually bother to use this dark pattern infused service?
Somewhat unfortunately, yes. Those patterns are annoying and dark, but they still have some good data. Which is probably the only reason they get away with it.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Glassdoors business model is selling the ability to take down bad reviews. Why would they out their customers?
Do you have proof or are you just throwing shit to see what sticks?
It's a rumor many years old at this point that I have also heard from many different sources. That doesn't make it true of course but it's not like they made it up on the spot today for this HN thread.
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#76This is why we need zero-knowledge proofs for these sorts of products.
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#77I just attempted to look at the reviews. There's an uncloseable pop-up telling you to log in. Normally I wouldn't bother, but curiousity got the best of me - I logged in with my Google OAuth. Not so fast - you haven't contributed to Glassdoor in the last 12 months, here's another annoying pop up and you cannot dismiss it until you do. Does anyone actually bother to use this dark pattern infused service?
First time viewers can see a page freely. So all you have to do is clear your cookies after every page load and you wont be bothered. lol.
But yeah, posting a review also gets rid of the banner permanently.
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#78Why you should never leave Glassdoor reviews using; - Your real name - Your real email address - Your real salary and job title - Your normal vocabulary and idioms - Any of your devices (as in, go to an internet cafe or something) They can deanonymize as much as they like all they're going to find is that "dbcooper42069[at]hotmail", using non-region specific language, took a very dim view of company X's management st…
> - Your normal vocabulary and idioms
I think that this one is way harder to avoid than you might think, short of having someone else write the review for you (which might not be a bad idea!).
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Glassdoors business model is selling the ability to take down bad reviews. Why would they out their customers?
Hmm, that doesn't correlate with what they say[0] on their support site: "No! Employers cannot pay Glassdoor to remove reviews." That said, it seems like negative reviews can easily end up violating one of the many other terms of use[1] around review content. Specifically that a user will not: "Post Content that is defamatory, libelous, or fraudulent"... and "Act in a manner that is [...] otherwise objectionable (as…
> Hmm, that doesn't correlate with what they say[0] on their support site: "No! Employers cannot pay Glassdoor to remove reviews."
They could easily be telling the truth there, but still be effectively selling a good rating. They'd just have to sell a service to help monitor the reviews in some way for violations of ToS. Suddenly ~all of the bad reviews are "spam", "libel", etc. It's amazing how broadly things can be recognized as abusive if your pocketbook depends on it.
I have _no_ idea if they're actually doing this or not, but it's along the lines of the scam many review sites use.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
DNS records of your VPN or corporate work station would be pretty easy. You can line then up with when the review was posted. Then investigate their workstation more "thoroughly".
Pretty uncool to give employers ideas on how to force their IT staff to rat out employees who speak out. Edit: yikes, people.
Pretty much everyone is carrying around a pocket computer connected to the internet 24/7 with which they can do all their non work related tasks on, including badmouthing their employer.