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Post by cubancigar11 »

Mandatum wrote: post #335
cubancigar11 wrote: post #176

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I was hired via a consultancy firm (Ness Technologies) that would have me work in PayPal chennai office back in 2012. A new CEO came and basically reduced work force drastically, the worst mass layoffs I have ever seen. The environment then changed to worse rapidly etc. etc. I decided to quit the toxic environment. Contractually I was supposed to get 2 months of basic pay, but Ness and Paypal conspired together and c…

PayPal wouldn’t open themselves up to that risk. 100% the type of shit I see consultancies pull, especially smaller ones or regional ones. Any with HQ in US wouldn’t risk it. Unless the 2 contacts from each company had a personal vendetta against you. Then I can see it.

Maybe not in USA.

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Post by cafard »

pronlover723 wrote: post #209
koolba wrote: post #149

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> If so, is this legal? 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. Laptops are cheap. There’s no reason to mix personal and corporate usage.

Surprisingly I was at a party in SF with a bunch of Apple employees. Somehow some topic came up and I was like "I don't do anything personal on my company laptop. I especially don't look at porn". All 6 of them said they used their company laptops and phones to look at porn all the time. Wow

Once when another person in IT was on vacation, I was handed off a manager's laptop to scan for porn. There was no automated tool, so as I recall I did a search for files created or modified since the last check. I found nothing to report.

I think that the periodic checks were set up because a subordinate of the manager's had seen the porn on the machine, and had gone to HR.

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Post by wutbrodo »

Gareth321 wrote: post #490
wutbrodo wrote: post #442

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The foundation of the site's usefulness is that the ratings have some signal. The value of job listings to a Glassdoor user is that they're from companies that Glassdoor rates as positive: an undifferentiated mass of ratings would be a completely useless site. The idea that they have no incentive to improve discriminativity (at the expense of company rating) proves way too much. Eg by that logic, Yelp would have no i…

This is true but there is enormous pressure for these businesses to directionally encourage review scores to trend north. Higher reviewed locations and businesses always garner far higher engagement, and this directly impacts top line. As you point out, there is some ephemeral point at which users might begin distrusting the site en masse, but this inflection point is always easy to ignore as "a problem for another d…

Sure, I agree there's an incentive force pushing scores up. I was responding to a comment asking what possible countervailing force could push scores towards accuracy. The answer is pretty obvious, as the yelp reductio ad absurdum shows.

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Post by edisondotme »

Someone1234 wrote: post #14
Mandatum wrote: post #2

Glassdoor has posted a notice on ZURU's page regarding this: https://www.glassdoor.com.au/Reviews/ZURU-Reviews-E2286297.h... It appears a few other companies are doing this too, including Kraken ( https://www.kraken.com/ ) as you can see here: https://www.glassdoor.com.au/Overview/Working-at-Kraken-Digi... EDIT: If anyone from Glassdoor is reading this, please advise on a way to either unlink my profile from my ident…

That's actually a fantastic response. - Reminds reviewers to avoid libel, since it may undergo legal review. - Tells potential employees or customers that this is how the company responds to bad press/negativity (i.e. disproportionately). - Doesn't subject Glassdoor to potential libel since the statement is objectively true (see court records). Although I won't get too positive about Glassdoor as I've read negative r…

Zuru's actions here speak volumes. Glassdoor's warning is more of a red flag than any review could ever be. They Streisand Effected themselves.

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Post by edisondotme »

lostcolony wrote: post #42
300bps wrote: post #24

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Wow. That statement is the worst kind of review any potential employee could ever read.

Yeah. Definitely Streisand effected themselves. Wonder if they can sue their own legal counsel for causing themselves so much monetary loss (given that's the grounds they're using to de-anonymize the reviewers)?

Ha, like poking more holes in a sinking ship!

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Post by synicalx »

absove wrote: post #299
synicalx wrote: post #25

Why 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…

I've never used glassdoor myself, but don't you need to use your company email while leaving the review to prove you actually work there, so leaving an anonymous review isn't even possible? Why would anybody use glassdoor if that's the case?

I think you have the option of saying that you're a former employee, and in that case you only need to validate an address not one tied to a specific domain.

In any case the idea of a company email is a little hard to define from the perspective of a 3rd party that deals with millions of companies; different TLD's, domains, sub domains etc make it very hard to nail down exactly which pattern is the definition of any given companies real email addresses.

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Post by HyperSane »

seanp2k2 wrote: post #206
HyperSane wrote: post #183

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I have actually done exactly that, copy over the sqlite broswer history sqlite database and run a query to generate a browsing history report.

I understand that this is all technically possible, but how do you feel about the morality of it?

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