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

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Post by giantg2 »

layer8 wrote: post #86
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…

If you can help it, it’s best to leave (or not start at) a company with such practices anyway.

That's difficult to identify.

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

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Post by shon »

ashton314 wrote: post #82
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.

Can you tell us more? What signals should I be worried about employers looking at?

It’s worse and deeper than you’d want to know. That said most HR Tech companies and large corporate HR departments are incompetent so it’s not really as scary in practice as it sounds.

Also GDPR/CCPA has hamstrung a lot of this and HR depts are fairly petrified about it. Talent Acquisition, not so much…

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

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Post by duxup »

ecshafer wrote: post #64

I think Glassdoor has the issue in that its not a growth business, but needs to be. You can't have a website like Glassdoor that is VC funded, owned by PE or publicly traded and not have it go to shit. The organic usage is people looking for new jobs, or posting about jobs they hate, or companies responding. A website that has <20 employees and is fine with being a $10M a year business living off of ad revenue could…

It does sometimes feel like we're missing out on these "reasonable company with reasonable expectations" type businesses and funding and crashing a ton of companies that would otherwise maybe live on reasonably?

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

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Post by araes »

shon wrote: post #58
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…

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

Your website returns: Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN

The certificate is only valid for the following names: *.allegisgroup.com, allegisgroup.com

hiring solved

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

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Post by vineyardmike »

xyzelement wrote: post #90
sli wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I think there's an explanation that is both more charitable and more pragmatic. Companies try to keep employees happy and committed, and part of that is making sure they see a potential future / growth for themselves. As a manager I try to both make sure this is based in reality and that employees are picking up the message. I like to think I am good at this but it's a difficult skill, and external signal to "hey, yo…

> "You updated your linkedIn so I am going to fire you"

You might be close to quitting (via perceived signal) so I’m going to give the high visibility project to someone “loyal”.

You may be perceived as a quitter so I’m going to give discretionary budget for the next raise to the employee who is more loyal.

You might be perceived as quitting, and my company requires me to stack rank employees. The lowest gets fired. I put you there to keep the rest of my team. You become a “sacrifice” since you were going to quit anyways.

And these are just the examples my friends at Amazon talk about. I’m sure there’s more.

Now consider all of the above, but now you’re on a visa. Losing your job means you have a few weeks to replace it or get deported.

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

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Post by gip »

As a senior manager I worked closely with a VP of engineering on the engineering culture - one of the expected outcome was the improvement of our Glassdoor company rating. But my VP (and probably the leadership) wanted to go fast. So my VP was in touch with someone at Glassdoor and had a way to 'tweak' or remove unpleasant reviews. I don't know the details but if there is definitely a way for companies to do that despite Glassdoor claiming that reviews can't be removed.

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

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Post by westhanover »

shon wrote: post #113
sli wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 thing…

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