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This got me to thinking, though. If Glassdoor and similar websites are unreliable, what are some other tactics for learning about the internal culture of a potential workplace? Play the long game and make friends at every company you might be interested in in the future?
1. After turning in my notice to resign, the company I was leaving offered me a written agreement where they would pay me $2500 for leaving a positive review on Glassdoor.
2. Someone I used to work with posted a personal attack on Glassdoor, that was clearly against the policies (along the lines of "The CEO is human garbage"), and yet no amount of flagging or reporting the post resulted in them taking it down.
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Why would a possible donor ask about a noise that sounds extremely similar to someone blowing their nose? This comes off as moralising for the sake of moralising, nothing actually harmful has happened.
Buddy I don’t know what to tell you here other than the noise a person makes after snorting a pill that was explicitly designed and engineered to be unpleasant to snort is not a normal noise. Edit: This is the funniest exchange I’ve had on this website, thank you. “Preferring people don’t do lines of apparently excruciating substances right next to me, at work, in an office, while I’m literally on the phone” being “m…
Would a blockchain based Glassdoor alternative make sense? You can't sue a blockchain, and if they do somehow, they're not going to ban the entire blockchain in the whole country just because it provides anonymous reviews.
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> If it’s a company provided laptop then it’s a good idea to assume that every keystroke, DNS request, and network packet is fair game. From an OPSEC perspective, sure. But the question was whether it's legal for an employer to do it. You might also get a phone call (on your private phone) about a private medical matter while at work, but I would hope your employer couldn't use the CCTV audio they have in the office…
> Not for everyone. Still cheaper then searching for a new job... without a current one.
(This probably doesn't work so well in the US.)
Every review I have posted on Glassdoor has been with a disposable email address, using my own device and using a public WiFi hotspot. I once had an employer try to get legal on me because I went to work for a rival after they laid me off - so I know some employers can be petty like that. I trust Glassdoor to keep their promise of not releasing my ID voluntarily, but when courts get involved all bets are off.
It’s like a “must be this talk to ride” sign at a carnival ride.
It's quite easy to create a throwaway email and send your review from a public wi-fi.
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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".
I run a Tor middle relay on one of the 8 IP addresses I have purchased as a block from a certain ISP that allows you to, I have been for around a year. The amount of traffic passing through it is heavy. Obviously, this comes with certain caveats (the middle relay's, or any TOR relay IPs are publicly available and published weekly on GitHub and as you can imagine, some places like to instant ban anything to do with TO…
> Zuru hasn't simply alleged that it suffered a loss; Zuru’s cofounders declared, under penalty of perjury, that because of the negative reviews, Zuru had to spend more money to recruit job candidates for a particular position. ” Does Zuru have proof it's because of negative reviews and not other causes?
I mean, they’re gonna have to spend a hell of a lot more on recruiting now that the Streisand effect has kicked in.