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Users say Glassdoor added real names to user profiles without their consent
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Re: Users say Glassdoor added real names to user profiles without their consent
#12When I logged in on mobile web Glassdoor forced me into a signup flow for something called Communities which included asking for my employment status. I was able to time a stop before the full page load and navigate to the account page.
If you log in first you can navigate directly to this URL without answering any questions: https://www.glassdoor.com/member/profile/accountSettings which will allow you to close your account.
You then need to request they delete your data which can be done at https://help.glassdoor.com/s/privacyrequest?language=en_US
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Re: Users say Glassdoor added real names to user profiles without their consent
#14Why would add your real name on such a website? I couldn’t read the article when rejecting the cookies (or it took very long) so maybe the answer is in there…
The answer is in there: > One user, who goes by Monica, wrote in a post on her personal blog that Glassdoor added her name and the city where she lives to her Glassdoor profile following an email exchange with Glassdoor customer support, despite having never provided her name during the sign-up process some years earlier. Monica, whose last name we’re not publishing to protect her privacy, accused Glassdoor of gettin…
Straight Talk wireless tirelessly attempted to get your mailing info and other such; any time you called them for any reason. It only took 2 questions before i went "do you need this? because you're not verifying anything i gave you before, since i didn't"
I have no idea if it's still that anonymous.
Re: Users say Glassdoor added real names to user profiles without their consent
#15That is really shitty behaviour, and bizarre. Glassdoor is only feasible if users can have trust that their feedback is anonymous. I really hope this has not harmed anyone, I'd imagine the lower rated companies are most likely to retaliate.
The risk is not only retaliation by lower rated companies. It may make users virtually unemployable if HR starts using Glassdoor as a database of publicly critical people. Given the choice between engineer 1 who never posted anything bad against a company, and engineer 2 who posted critical comments, who would you hire?
Agreed, but my point was that those that are lowest rated will likely have the worst cultures, and so would be *most likely* to retaliate. A company with a good culture would in theory be more likely to take any constructive feedback on board.
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#16Glassdoor is a completely flawed premise. Employers have almost complete compensation data and because we value anonymity more than ability to negotiate, our data is flawed. Employers might well directly know what you got paid at your previous company.
Many companies are able to purchase previous employment salary data, which I believe Equifax sells directly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29834753
Here is a great read about the tools companies have to suppress your wage for anyone who wants to be a little angry: https://www.pave.com/blog-posts/acquiring-option-impact-and-...
> At Pave, we spent the last two years building out a suite of 40+ integrations with HRIS, payroll, and equity management systems that connect directly with the source of truth for compensation data. We are thrilled to bring this technology to the Option Impact customer base and ensure that our combined customers will never have to fill out a manual survey again while gaining access to a persistent real-time network of compensation data.
[pdf] https://advisor.morganstanley.com/the-hamilton-retirement-pl...
> Option Impact is free to eligible and participating companies through our give-to-get model.
So if I understand correctly, almost all of our employers are providing our real time compensation data to an entity that then allows all other participant companies to graph and query.
I find it outrageous that my employer could tell my compensation data to other companies, while simultaneously we live in a culture of "we shouldn't talk about compensation."
Re: Users say Glassdoor added real names to user profiles without their consent
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
The risk is not only retaliation by lower rated companies. It may make users virtually unemployable if HR starts using Glassdoor as a database of publicly critical people. Given the choice between engineer 1 who never posted anything bad against a company, and engineer 2 who posted critical comments, who would you hire?
Agreed, but my point was that those that are lowest rated will likely have the worst cultures, and so would be *most likely* to retaliate. A company with a good culture would in theory be more likely to take any constructive feedback on board.
Being surrounded by "yes" people can only get you so far.
Although it probably gets you further than the opposite extreme where everyone disagrees all the time.
Personally having such info (critical reviews on previous employers) for a candidate, would be close to already having their answer for "Tell me about a time you had a challenge/problem/conflict at work" type of interview questions.
Re: Users say Glassdoor added real names to user profiles without their consent
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
The risk is not only retaliation by lower rated companies. It may make users virtually unemployable if HR starts using Glassdoor as a database of publicly critical people. Given the choice between engineer 1 who never posted anything bad against a company, and engineer 2 who posted critical comments, who would you hire?
Agreed, but my point was that those that are lowest rated will likely have the worst cultures, and so would be *most likely* to retaliate. A company with a good culture would in theory be more likely to take any constructive feedback on board.
It’s more dangerous than that. Even “good” companies use third party data and HR services to rank and disqualify applicants. If one of those services uses Glassdoor reviews as a signal even “good” employers could be unintentionally discriminating against applicants based on Glassdoor history.
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#19Glassdoor is a completely flawed premise. Employers have almost complete compensation data and because we value anonymity more than ability to negotiate, our data is flawed. Employers might well directly know what you got paid at your previous company. Many companies are able to purchase previous employment salary data, which I believe Equifax sells directly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29834753 Here is a gr…
Isn’t it illegal in the US for an employer to share your compensation data with third parties? Or do they skirt the rules by “anonymizing” it?
> we live in a culture of "we shouldn't talk about compensation."
Yeah especially now that the cat is out of the bag, but restricted to employers. Such a data set should absolutely be made available to workers. Information symmetry is critical for a functioning market. And capitalists love markets, right?
Re: Users say Glassdoor added real names to user profiles without their consent
#20Glassdoor is a completely flawed premise. Employers have almost complete compensation data and because we value anonymity more than ability to negotiate, our data is flawed. Employers might well directly know what you got paid at your previous company. Many companies are able to purchase previous employment salary data, which I believe Equifax sells directly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29834753 Here is a gr…
Isn’t it illegal in the US for an employer to share your compensation data with third parties? Or do they skirt the rules by “anonymizing” it? > we live in a culture of "we shouldn't talk about compensation." Yeah especially now that the cat is out of the bag, but restricted to employers. Such a data set should absolutely be made available to workers. Information symmetry is critical for a functioning market. And cap…
Whether it’s anonymized or not, if this is real, it’s fucking dystopian.