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.
This is very very illegal, depending on jurisdiction.
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
#62> your Glassdoor account null pointer exception
Seriously, I’ve browsed some of those sites in the past and the info is always bad info. Or at the very least, it’s not possible to discern the good info from the bad info on those sites.
I’ve never understood what compels people to go to those sites, I suspect it’s because people feel that it at least gives them a voice.
The only site with a modicum of value is LinkedIn, and even then you can probably come up with a million reasons to not use it.
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#63If 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…
It can be useful to know who's near the door so that you may rectify the situation, it doesn't necessarily have to be slimy. Benefit of the doubt I guess. DX (getdx.com) has it and it's very pro-worker.
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#64I 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 absolutely do this and be successful. A business seeking to double revenue can't.
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#65If 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.
I will never understand how people can willingly build tools like this that almost exclusively serve to make employment miserable.
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#66Love the change. Now I can signup with employee name I dislike like a powerful manager and get them out.
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#67I 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.
Same. Thought I must not have been signed in and was getting pushed into a signup flow or something, so I cleared cookies and got the same behavior once I logged in.
Forcing you to give them your real name before allowing you to use the site when logged in is incredibly scummy behavior I hope they are punished richly for.
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#68If 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…
This can be a positive too, proactive dive & save to retain an employee who's manager feel they're about to leave isn't unheard of in my company.
If you're good at your job and highly rated there should be obvious signs when they're trying to preemptively backfill you and at that point you can just communicate about how excited you are about your growth at the company or something to make them take a step back.
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#69If 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.
Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
#70Glassdoor 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 presidio campus)
So I built out the RFP for network and we were doing selections up at Big Rock Ranch (the only reason this is important is just how beautiful the space is, so it feels really open nice energy, relaxing)
We are doing vendor selection presentations (the vendors come show us why their solution is best match to RFP reqs)
The vendors were Cisco, Foundry, Force-10 (extreme backed out)
Cisco comes in and they're going through their presentation and we are getting through it - I am reviewing and seeing that it was rather weak, more "marketing"-ish reply to the RFP instead of a detailed response on the specs...
I am sitting across from the main cisco sales guy. (this is at the time the largest 10G network in the world as this is just as the 10G switches were made) - so at the time, its a big deal - like ~$80 million in core gear)
The sales guy is leaning back as if... don't worry Toots. Jimmy's got this sniffs coke" https://i.imgur.com/gPdQiW5.jpg
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So I am going over the RFP with his team, and he interjects:
"I just want to assure you that Cisco has a world class media team - and I will personally be sure they go through this in depth and really create the right solution"
PIN DROPs
(I am the youngest in the room - but its my RFP/design)
"Excuse me. This is the RFP review. Youre presenting your solution here today. So are you to tell me, that you have a "world class media team" and they have not informed your response to this RFP? That the entire point of this meeting" i said a few more things that made this guy die inside.
This guys balls shot into his throat.
Those are the types of people I think of when I think of levels.
(this was also the meeting where the CIO of Lucas Arts demanding a date for "when can you provide me power over fiber" ((his logic was the design was for both power and fiber to desktop - and he was trying to flex on showing 'how can we reduce infra wiring costs' -- it was a truly different world back then, mostly))