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

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Post by Gibbon1 »

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 think we should modify the laws covering credit reporting agencies to cover these knuckleheads and add criminal penalties for non compliance.

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

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Post by freeAgent »

gip wrote: post #127

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 des…

They can definitely manipulate the default (“recommended”) sort to bury bad reviews. Companies do that all the time. They can also reply to reviews. I’m not sure about control over visibility if a user chooses to sort chronologically, though.

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

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Post by pavel_lishin »

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.

> Get your teammates to update to and keep management nervous and focused on improving the employee's lives.

If you're working for a company that actively monitors this sort of thing, I don't think that management's response will be "let's make our employees; lives better."

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

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Post by blibble »

shon wrote: post #191
latentcall wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Amazing what people are willing to trade in exchange for a fat salary with decent benefits. Even if it means trading their moral code.

Really? You think this is that bad? I always said “at least we’re not building weapons we are trying to get people jobs (or keep them in jobs)” But aside from weapons, if you think building a retention tool for HR is bad, you certainly should not ever look at AdTech or the types of things insurance companies are doing from a data perspective. Or ah hem… Palatir for example.

so your argument is that you don't need to be ethical because there exist people that do worse things than you?

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

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Post by flemhans »

Danish payment app MobilePay also just revealed the full name of all its users, linked to the government database.

You can enter any phone number and the full name of the user will be shown. Previously a user-selectable name, now it's coming from the government database of citizens.

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

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Post by cchance »

Solvency wrote: post #237
Uehreka wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 com…

Why is it impossible for communities to emerge organically in 2024? Why must you raise and spend $20m on marketing alone? I found Reddit literally through organic word-of-mouth when Digg went under. Never saw an ad for it in my life. Why does a Glassdoor alternative inherently need marketing?

The thing is you did find reddit via marketing, its just the marketing hit the people before it hit you, that guy that told you about it or the one that told him was the one that marketing got into reddit, which got them to a critical mass that word of mouth can take over.

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

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 »

the_sleaze9 wrote: post #230
supportengineer wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 dw…

Can't retire on $5M?

At a 5%/year withdrawal rate, that's $250K/year. That's absolutely livable. You won't live like a king, but that's a solid middle-class living in most suburbs outside the Bay area.

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

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Post by StressedDev »

coolThingsFirst wrote: post #77

All US tech companies ever, they are out there to doing the right thing until money rolls in then profits take the priority over quality and they go down the shitter. 1) Evernote 2) Triplebyte 3) Glassdoor 4) Let's not forget Quora

Are you sure it’s just profits? People need money to support themselves. Companies hire people and have to pay them because they can’t work for free. This means companies need revenue.

Now, with traditional companies, customers paid for products and services. This revenue allowed companies to pay employees. With the companies you listened, they gave away their product “for free”. That meant they had to get revenue some other way. Usually, this either involved ads, spying (so ads could be better targeted), pay for advanced features (Evernote), or sell services to some third party (Yelp and Glassdoor are two examples of this).

The problem with all of these new business models is companies often struggle to get enough revenue to survive. What is no called ‘enshitification” is basically companies searchimng for a way to survive when their users will not directly pay for the service they are offering. Is this good for users? No, but then again the users refuse to pay for the service.

My main point here is greed is not the only thing driving this process. In many cases, it is incentives and organizations trying to survive. If we want products which delight us, we are probably going to have to pay for them. If we want the cheapest thing possible, we are going to have to accept that it will get progressively worse as companies try to survive or keep their earning growing.

Note that the above earnings growth is probably a short term phenomenon. My guess is that companies who push earnings over quality eventually destroy their product and get a bad product and lower earnings. This process can take years or decades.

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

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Post by topikk »

barrysteve wrote: post #132
12_throw_away wrote: post #51

I 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.

Sounds like a platform that will wither away and die. Glassdoor users are emboldened by anonymity and know exactly what happens to people who put that kind of information on Facebook or LinkedIn next to their real name.

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

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Post by StressedDev »

sonicanatidae wrote: post #100

The enshittification of the world continues apace.

I think you are fundamentally wrong. The world is getting better all of the time. Look at life 10 years ago, 30 years ago, 100 years ago, 200, years ago, etc.

Life expectancy is up, people are richer, people are healthier, we have an amazing number of choices, we have amazing devices, etc.

I think your view is very distorted and you really should check your facts. Here are some questions you should ask yourself:

1) What do you mean when you say “enshitification”? How is the world getting worse? By what measure?

2) Are there any counter examples which could disprove your thesis?

3) How does the world today compare to the world at other times? Why is the world better today? What was better before?

Finally, you should consider individual things instead of the world. For example, you can look at your town, housing, food, culture, etc. Try going beyond good and bad and look at the benefits and drawbacks of various things. Consider whether you need a more nuanced view of the world.

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