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Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location

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Post by tverbeure »

ipqk wrote: post #36

I just logged in for the first time in years to delete my account, and before letting me do anything they required me to add my full name and other employment info.

I'm now known as John Smith, student at Brookdale Community College with an associates degree, aspiring to be an "Assistant Dog Catcher" (yes, that was one of the options in their auto-complete field) in Lodi, CA.

There was no option to delete the account, but after clicking "Deactivate", it still said that my account was now deleted, so who knows.

Edit: And now I received 2 emails from them that my recent submissions (filling in that form?) violated community rules.

Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location

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Post by shon »

sli wrote: post #65
shon wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We built this tool as part of HiringSolved. Other signals included time in current position relative to industry average and personal history.

I will never understand how people can willingly build tools like this that almost exclusively serve to make employment miserable.

Originally it was built as the inverse. A signal that recruiters could use to tell them which “passive candidates” could be more willing to change jobs.

A customer asked if it could be used internally (we already had their ATS/HRIS data) so a new feature was born.

Yes money was a motive but this particular feature didn’t seem like an evil idea to be used to increase employee misery.

That said, We did build some things that I do regret now.

Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location

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Post by digitalsushi »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #45
thrtythreeforty wrote: post #15

All this "my final determination" and "your other surprise account" nonsense could be rectified pretty quickly with a GDPR banhammer. I am increasingly of the opinion that personal info of any kind should be legally radioactive, and very high-risk for companies to hold onto or collect.

I agree. I am the author of a [very mild] social media app, that Serves an extremely tinfoil demographic. The #1 posture is that if we don't actually need the information for the application to run, we don't take it. I won't go into detail about how we do what we do, but we don't keep any data, other than the email the user chooses to send us (which can be a DEA or proxied one). We also never export that email outsid…

stances and postures sound like policies that are not written

Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location

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Post by nerdjon »

I have not logged into Glassdoor in a long time, I tried to log in after seeing this.

I get a prompt that I cannot dismiss about "Communities at Glassdoor" that I can't get past without putting in my employment information and name...

I can't even get too my account to delete it or emails support.

Love dark patterns...

Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location

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Post by michaelt »

tomrod wrote: post #69
zug_zug wrote: post #10

If anybody doesn't think this is a problem, I overheard managers talking about a 3rd-party tool that finds "at risk employees" which they didn't define but said it included signals such as "they updated their linked in recently" as a signal that they may be on the job hunt. You better believe that data brokers are both interested in buying and selling any sort of information around your employment/job/interview behav…

Let them squirm. Get your teammates to update to and keep management nervous and focused on improving the employee's lives. Take it even to starting a union if needed. You don't give your time to an employer, you trade it, and in our modern society we have a gap in the market power of labor. Only way to get it is to reclaim it.

> Let them squirm.

The risk here isn't that your snooping boss feels a bit uncomfortable.

The risk is that your snooping boss now thinks they'd better not send you on that expensive training course or assign you that big, important project where success could get you promoted. And that you'll never get a chance to address their fears, as they want to keep the snooping secret.

Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location

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Post by ajb »

thiele wrote: post #92
ipqk wrote: post #36

I just logged in for the first time in years to delete my account, and before letting me do anything they required me to add my full name and other employment info.

I got the same modal, but I opened up DevTools, deleted the modal and was able to then click into my account settings and delete my account.

Same, but instead of devtools I just found a longer URL in my history to get past it.

Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location

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Post by rurp »

My God what a sleazy company this is. I just logged in for the first time in ages to delete my account and it immediately gave me an inescapable modal requiring personal information, including my name!

I stopped using the site years ago once it became clear how corrupt they were about handling blatantly fake reviews, but this new name policy is a new low. Glassdoor can't be run out of business fast enough.

Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location

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Post by duxup »

zug_zug wrote: post #10

If anybody doesn't think this is a problem, I overheard managers talking about a 3rd-party tool that finds "at risk employees" which they didn't define but said it included signals such as "they updated their linked in recently" as a signal that they may be on the job hunt. You better believe that data brokers are both interested in buying and selling any sort of information around your employment/job/interview behav…

Even some rudimentary effort on a given manager's part could find LinkedIn updates.

I'm not convinced this is always an ultimately bad outcome if someone finds that.

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