So isn't this a business opportunity for a Glassdoor 2.0 competing company?
Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees
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Re: Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees
#112My company recently started a campaign of leaving "honest positive" reviews of your work experience. There was quite a bit of pressure on me since I have only been here a year. They also have been bugging the guy who was hired onto my team six months after me.
Re: Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees
#113And that's why there is Blind https://www.teamblind.com/articles/Topics I highly recommend everyone signs up their company and gives honest feedback there. Closing the Asymmetric Information gap will only help workers (the vast majority of us) make better choices about where to work, how much to charge employers and what really goes on (not the propaganda campaigns that are online resources and interviews)
I looked through some of the discussions and they come off as pretty gross and unprofessional. Wouldn't trust such a place for honest feedback.
"Unprofessional" Is you actually seeing what the people who work there are like when no one is looking.
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#114I've had negative reviews flat out removed by a company that was paying glass door for some sort of premium service. I extensively reviewed the rules and reworded my comments and they were removed yet again. My points were fully factually true and were not anything too untoward (pay raises were promised to members of a new team, they never materialized, most team members left). For what it's worth, Path Forward IT is…
I guess that's less effort for the executives than just "stop acting like a jerk"...
I think in a lot of those cases, they don't even know they're jerks and couldn't believe they are.
I'm reminded of Burroughs...
“Thou shalt not be such a shit, you don't know you are one.”
Re: Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees
#115I've had negative reviews flat out removed by a company that was paying glass door for some sort of premium service. I extensively reviewed the rules and reworded my comments and they were removed yet again. My points were fully factually true and were not anything too untoward (pay raises were promised to members of a new team, they never materialized, most team members left). For what it's worth, Path Forward IT is…
I don't understand why you would want to be a shitty boss. Not only is it good karma but it's good business. Loyal employees are awesome. Any bump in the road and they have your back. Maybe when you're some massive megacorp it makes sense but I hope I'm never to the point where I have to run a mathematical calculation on whether it makes sense to treat people with respect.
The Peter principle is a very powerful force.
Re: Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees
#116And that's why there is Blind https://www.teamblind.com/articles/Topics I highly recommend everyone signs up their company and gives honest feedback there. Closing the Asymmetric Information gap will only help workers (the vast majority of us) make better choices about where to work, how much to charge employers and what really goes on (not the propaganda campaigns that are online resources and interviews)
Sounds interesting, but presumably non-employees have no access?
I'm pretty sure you can find the threads about any company with their search?
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#117Nobody should on Glassdoor to determine if they should work at a company. One should always rely on back channel contacts, preferably of people who no longer work at that company.
Can one of you smart people here at HN develop a Glass Door competitor that only allows FORMER employees to review a company?
Re: Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees
#118You don't say! I used to work as an engineer at a truly awful little company, the worst I've been at, and when I left I gave them a scathing review. Not long after, several new reviews popped up. Here are some choice excerpts, get a load of this: > Pros: > For anyone reading these reviews, take it from someone who has been at this company for over 10 years, some people just like to use these review sites as a soundin…
Since you opted to reveal the company's name (Snowbound software), I went ahead and read the reviews on GlassDoor.
Your review is very emotionally charged and with very few facts or examples, which makes it difficult to take seriously.
Since you were fired I can understand why you would write like this, but it is a bit ironic considering the article is about manipulating reviews.
Yours is scathing indeed, but not in an insightful way and just seems like an attempt to bash the company (1 star, all reds, only pros are low pressure environment and parking?). I can understand why the company would want to defend itself against this with actual facts (they state increased revenue, staff seniority, customer names).
Anyways take whatever you want from this comment, I'm just a neutral observer with limited information, but I don't think Snowbound's positive reviews show manipulation
Re: Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees
#119I've had negative reviews flat out removed by a company that was paying glass door for some sort of premium service. I extensively reviewed the rules and reworded my comments and they were removed yet again. My points were fully factually true and were not anything too untoward (pay raises were promised to members of a new team, they never materialized, most team members left). For what it's worth, Path Forward IT is…
> Flexibility works one way there A former boss put it like this, "Sure we have flex time! You can arrive any time before 8 and leave any time after 6."
That brings back bad memories of my first day at a new job. We had discussed in the interview that they were flexible with the time I got there. On the first day, one of the first questions I was asked:
New Boss: "So, what time will you be here every day?" Me: "I thought we had discussed that being flexible as traffic can be unpredictable?" New Boss: "We are flexible on the time, but you have to be here by that time every day."
I made it 6 weeks.
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#120My approach to Glasdoor reviews is similar to my approach to Amazon reviews... ignore the positive reviews, and focus on the negative ones. Now, "absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence", but a large number of negative reviews is a strong "stay away" signal. A small number of negative reviews is, more or less regardless of the positive reviews, a "neutral" indicator to me.
> a large number of negative reviews is a strong "stay away" signal. A small number...
Unfortunately that's unreliable, because negative reviews are removed, so numbers are fake.