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

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Post by 12_throw_away »

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 several times, and I am considering this matter closed.

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

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Post by internet101010 »

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.

TripAdvisor is good for everything outside of the US but I pretty much just use Google Maps now for restaurants in the US. I'll keep an eye out for who gets awards in my city as well.

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

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Post by jcoletti »

tr3ntg wrote: post #47

Decided to visit the website to delete my account. Lo and behold, the "Deactivate Account" button kicks off a perpetual loop that asks you to "Sign In Again To Delete Account" then dumps you on the same profile setting page, which prompts you again to log in... so you can't really delete your account, at least on web, without the help of support. Edit: figured it out, is confusing 1. Remove social connection if this…

Strange, do you have any browser security extensions, aggressive cookie-blocking, or something similar? I was able to complete the process (see my comment below). I'm using Brave with ad blockers. The "deactivate" language is pretty misleading, but after entering account credentials, it did seem to delete the account completely.

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

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Post by gxs »

You should request your data from a company like axciom. You can ask them to delete it while you’re at it.

They already know more about you than you’d ever want them to know. The fact that they hadn’t automatically matched your name before was either incompetence or simply being blocked by some frayed little law somewhere.

A little off topic, but his is a classic example of the problem where the laws just haven’t kept up with the technology.

Data collection and public government databases weren’t a problem when you had to go into some big office building somewhere to make a request, or maybe wait a couple weeks to sort it out through the mail.

Today, however, it’s easier than ever to gather this data at scales people can’t even imagine and this level of aggregation has eroded privacy to a degree that I don’t think is reversible anymore.

Anyway, here is a link to axcioms portal, although the cynic in me thinks that by requesting your data be deleted, all you’re doing is confirming your identity.

https://privacyportal.onetrust.com/webform/342ca6ac-4177-482...

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

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Post by shon »

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.

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

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Post by p1esk »

rincebrain wrote: post #26
wly_cdgr wrote: post #4

That's absolutely batshit insane if true. How do they not understand that no one will use their site if they can't do it anonymously?!

First, you get to the point that management thinks enough people won't leave no matter what they do. Second, you find some sketchy thing to do that will boost revenue and burn people's desire to use your product willingly into the ground. Third, you leave on your golden parachute and the company acts surprised that this proved toxic and changes nothing.

Sadly this is becoming more common everywhere. Companies (and individual people) just don’t care about long term prospects. This includes SWE industry: if people switch companies every two years on average, why care about things like tech debt?

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

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Post by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF »

ipqk wrote: post #31
djbusby wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I think Yelp only survives through its integration with Apple Maps. If Apple ever decides to build its own review feature I can’t imagine Yelp surviving.

Given the integration, I'd expect that Apple's decision to build their own would start with buying Yelp if for nothing more than the data Yelp already has.
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