What the actual fuck, glasdoor just died for me. Tinker around with data to that degree is a nogo by all means.
Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
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Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#132I keep thinking about this response from a glassdoor employee, and what it implies about their decision making processes: I stand behind the decision that your name has to be placed on your profile and it cannot be reverted or nullified/anonymized from the platform. I am sorry that we disagree on this issue. [...] This is my final determination. I, as well as multiple members of my team, have reviewed your request se…
There is no recourse except not to play. The end user has no choice. Sounds like a dictatorship.
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#133Earlier 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…
IMO a company that would rely on this kind of invasive surveillance is not really interested in the well being of their employees. There are far better and less invasive ways to evaluate employee satisfaction and fulfillment than hiring an outside organization to "dig up dirt", for the lack of a better term.
To me it's no different than a company hiring a PI to follow me around so they can report back how many drinks I have on the weekend at a barbecue. Or following me around to find out if I bought a new suit and tie (oh no, might indicate I'm going for an interview!). Just because it's being done digitally doesn't make it any less invasive.
What's next? Grocery stores start selling my buying habits to my employer? That would definitely give them more insight into whether I'm happy and committed. Banks/Credit card companies selling my purchase history?
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#134If 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…
Employers and recruiters are always bewildered when I say I don't have a LinkedIn account, or a public Github profile (I have a few tiny open source projects I maintain, but they are all pseudonymous) - and this is exactly why. I don't want people creeping any kind of "profile" of me. Ever.
Linkedin is required to market yourself though or else you can't bullshit your way through the HR hoops.
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know of two multinational conglomerates (one Indian, the other Argentinian) that requires all newcomers to post a GlassDoor review and a LinkedIn post praising the company, the onboarding gifts, and such things. Both are absolute hell to work for unless you're upper management, according to acquaintances that have been there and climbed outside the bog of low-level positions. It's not a lot, but it's weird it happe…
Globant?
Their interview raised a lot of red flags for me. I see they were raised for a reason.
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#136It's very possible that the full name from the email to the person's Glassdoor account was not manually performed by a human.
More than likely, their CRM software automatically tied their user-facing account with their support ticket email. Especially if the only unique identifier is based on email address. It's not hard to remove the name and location from the CRM, but because it would become a manual process they just don't want to have to deal with it.
FWIW, this theory could be put to test by signing up an account with username.extrachars@gmail.com and then sending a support email from username.extrachars+1@gmail.com, not sure if they would reject the support ticket as "emails not matched".
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#137I 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?
What is the line from The Social Network? "Its not cool to be a millionaire, its cool to be a billionaire" or something along those lines. I think a lot of people aren't happy with being just very wealthy I suppose.
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#138Earlier 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.
Late stage capitalism makes us do it.
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#139If 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.
Managers want prisoners. Tradespeople don't fall for this shjt, white collar employees shouldn't.
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#140Aren't Glassdoor's reviews pretty much a scam anyway? Last I heard companies can pay $$ to gain moderation control over their own profile to delete/downrank bad reviews.
How is this not fraud? https://help.glassdoor.com/s/article/I-m-an-employer-What-ca... > You can't pay us to take down reviews and we apply the same content moderation rules to our clients that we use for everyone else. https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/ https://www.naag.org/find-my-ag/
oh but they're not paying to take down reviews
you're paying to "flag and report reviews for additional scrutiny"
their process then co-incidentally always seems to agree that those reported by paying customers are bogus
(same as paying for trustpilot)