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

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Post by Uehreka »

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…

Yeah, and the problem is that if you try to start a bootstrapped company to compete with Glassdoor without ever taking funding, you’ll be outspent on marketing by the companies that did take funding and you’ll go under. There’s a reason so many of these sites are VC funded even when it feels like they shouldn’t be. And VCs are often willing to fund things with a 1% chance of success, so even if multiple VC-backed companies in a market have failed, it won’t dissuade them from investing.

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

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Post by javcasas »

abracadaniel wrote: post #143
michaelt wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Or it guarantees you’re in the next round of layoffs. You’re now a liability and they’ll be looking for a replacement with better loyalty signals.

You will be on the next round of layoffs regardless of your loyalty. "You were updating linkedin" is the excuse. It could be anything else. But the reality is that they found someone cheaper.

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

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Post by jcoletti »

tomrod wrote: post #130

Weird. I only see the option to deactivate an account, not delete or even close. Damn this terribly company and their terrible, terrible dark patterns.

See my top-level comment. I went through this process and the confirmation message seems to indicate it does perform a deletion vs. a deactivation.

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

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Post by astura »

renegade-otter wrote: post #73
djbusby wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Remember when Yelp did that? And yet, somehow not dead.

I basically stopped reading Amazon and Yelp reviews. They do more harm then good. Now it's all about human-curated information. Find someone you trust - on social media, a new site, or a newsletter. Get the info from them. Should I eat here? Should I buy this product? Etc. With restaurants it's tricky - sometimes you just need to take a chance. There is some old-school magic in that.

>Find someone you trust - on social media, a new site, or a newsletter. Get the info from them.

OMG please don't do this - it's more gamed/scammy than online reviews: people will routinely post sponsored content disguised as personal recommendations. The FTC occasionally cracks down on it (or sends warning labels) but it's still so ubiquitous.

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

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Post by groestl »

abracadaniel wrote: post #143
michaelt wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Or it guarantees you’re in the next round of layoffs. You’re now a liability and they’ll be looking for a replacement with better loyalty signals.

Avoidant attachment at its best.

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

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Post by mlrtime »

samstave wrote: post #70
darknavi wrote: post #2

Glassdoor is so gross sometimes with its requirements. Levels.fyi has been really nice.

The problem Ive always had with levels, is that it seems much more focused on the "sales" groups - the non tech, but vital to business everything. I've always disliked sales. especially when working on projects where a sales is so smarmy, because they get a huge pay - and I, implementing it all - get nothing. This happened all over. but here is a story of why I cant stand sales: I was tech designer for LDAC (lucas pr…

I used to think similar to you, as an engineer I didn't see value in sales. Then I tried to sell something myself and I realized it is not easy. You hear no all day long it starts to get to you.

The best sales people I've seen are relationship builders. They understand their clients needs (Even if outside the core market) and try to find a solution for their needs. This looks like wining/dining on the outside but it's important.

I would suggestion anyone that wants to build something to try and sell first. Then you'll realize why they get paid and can be very valuable.

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

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

digitalsushi wrote: post #114
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Nah, it’s written. It’s an iOS app, and Apple requires a well-written policy.

Also, I have gotten used to doing things this way. I’ve been writing software for this particular demographic, for over 20 years.

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

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Post by jimt1234 »

fredley wrote: post #3

Aren'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.

> Last I heard companies can pay $$ to gain moderation control over their own profile to delete/downrank bad reviews.

I can verify this was true at least a few years ago. My friend's company had some bad (but totally honest) reviews. They requested them to be removed. Denied. A few days later they received an email from Glassdoor, talking about some sort of premium plan. They signed up. The bad reviews disappeared a few days later.

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

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Post by jdowner »

seadan83 wrote: post #89

Wow, big dark UX pattern when trying to sign in now. I'm quite positive that I never linked my glassdoor account to google. Yet, Glassdoor was ambiguously saying on login "use your google account to login for your @gmail address!". To which google asked "are you sure you want to share info with glassdoor." There was no way to enter my old password, I was forced to now link my account with google which force shared my…

I was able to login just now using an email address.
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