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

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Post by karaterobot »

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…

Fully agree with that. But you've just stated one of the major problems the software industry has in general. There's almost an inevitable flow that leads businesses that feed on VC funding to develop like this. They will turn shitty because they are as big as they should get, but not as big as they must get.

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

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Post by waylandsmithers »

OJFord wrote: post #21
MattGaiser wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yelp has no real alternative for vetting unfamiliar restaurants, at least not one which doesn’t have similar conflicts.

TripAdvisor? They charge for advertising/sponsored positioning, but it's free to claim your business and it allows you to respond to people but pretty sure not do 'moderation' like that.

The reviews might be real, but the order you see anything, say Top 10 hotels in Indianapolis, is the result of an auction

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

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Post by nuancebydefault »

bri3d wrote: post #182
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…

I've never really seen retention risk tooling used for evil in the way that most HN readers seem to think it is; it's kind of interesting and eye-opening to me to see the strong negative sentiment towards it. I've worked in management at companies with risk-based retention tools, and I've always seen them used as just that... retention tools. If anything, getting a high risk score as a high performer would usually be…

>"my manager will use this to fire me"

For me it is more like: "my manager sees that I'm looking for a job", and I really rather tell him that I will be leaving, as soon as I'm certain of a new job. It's none of his business before that point.

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

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Post by renegade-otter »

astura wrote: post #155
renegade-otter wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If you are following an "influencer" peddling products, yes, but there are plenty of good resources available.

The choice is between "scam" and "bias".

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

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Post by mitthrowaway2 »

javcasas wrote: post #142
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.

> success could get you promoted "Could" is such a big word. It means nothing, but it is intended to be very valuable. Get that promotion in writing. Otherwise it's a carrot to dangle upon you. > they'd better not send you on that expensive training course You know what's worse than training people and then these people leaving? Not training them and then these people staying. You insist on giving me reasons to stay…

You don't necessarily realize that you work for this company.

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

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Post by f0xd13 »

binarymax wrote: post #74
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.

Was it possible to use a fake name?

I used the name “Nah Thanks” and selected that I was unemployed to pass on giving any legitimate information.

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

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Post by waylandsmithers »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #13
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.

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/

A few of the tricks I've noticed they use:

* Review not tagged as English, or neither Full-Time or Part-Time, and those are the default filters

* Default sort is "Most Recent" and the Featured Review at the top of reviews is always a positive hand chosen review

* "Found 515 out of over 530 reviews" - I suspect they maybe take those 15 other reviews into account for the rating average, but you just can't read them right now so technically not taken down

* Negative review stays in Pending state while being screened by Glassdoor for over a month, but the time it's approved, it's buried by newer reviews

*

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

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Post by not_your_vase »

jcoletti wrote: post #38

This is pretty shocking. I never use Glassdoor anyway, so deleted my account after reading. Worth noting that going to Settings only shows a button that says "Deactivate account", which seems misleading. Following this process does show a modal at the end that says "Account Deleted Confirmation. You have successfully deleted your account.", so seems like this is actually deletion vs. deactivation. (Your data stays in…

Careful: Those are just words, written by someone who thought that the difference between them is insignificant. (Maybe it was insignificant when it was actually written.) Without having concrete confirmation, all you have is just some optimistic assumption.

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

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Post by avidiax »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #13
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.

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/

> https://help.glassdoor.com/s/article/I-m-an-employer-What-ca...

Interesting that of the 4 options to address bad employee reviews, none of those options is:

* Address the review by improving your company culture or policies

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

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Post by the_sleaze9 »

supportengineer wrote: post #177
ecshafer wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There's even a stigma to being a "single digit millionaire"

    Greg: I'm good, anyway, cuz, uh, my, so, I was just talkin' to my mom, and she said, apparently, he'll leave me five million anyway, so I'm golden, baby.

    Connor: You can't do anything with five, Greg. Five's a nightmare.

    Greg: Is it?

    Connor: Oh, yeah. Can't retire. Not worth it to work. Oh, yes, five will drive you un poco loco, my fine feathered friend.

    Tom: The poorest rich person in America. The world's tallest dwarf.


    Connor: The weakest strong man at the circus.
-- Succession
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