Glassdoor

GlassDoor sells itself as being a neutral, honest platform where people can go and post about their work experience at any particular company. But the poor innocents who rely on this honesty don't realize that they'll never see both sides. Employers pay Glassdoor to help them paint a very unrealistic and rosy picture. They can and do get any and all negative reviews removed. If you followed any company, you'd see that positive reviews, will stay up forever, while the negative ones get taken down the very next day. I and some fellow ex-employees have posted many real reviews depicting what an awful place the company we worked for is and as soon as we blink, the reviews are gone. I know for a fact that this company has a staff of people creating phony positive reviews on a daily basis.Don't believe the hype. GlassDoor is THE most dishonest platform ever set up for company reviews. Their "Community Guidelines" are applied randomly when it comes to getting reviews approved or denied, but even if they make it onto the site, they don't last. And forget trying to contact them or even complaining about their practices. You first get an automated "Your email has been received" kind of response, but you will grow old and die before you get any response from an actual human being. Go elsewhere to get company information.

This website is just not useful or seemingly legitimate anymore. Years ago, I used to browse Glassdoor to see median salaries and see what places were good to work for. Everything looked perfectly fine, and everyone seemed to have legitimate good and bad experiences.

Now, the company just looks really fake and uninviting. First, it's useless on mobile. Second, it's useless everywhere else. Just like those shopping websites that require your email before browsing their content, and just like Yelp that doesn't allow you to browse without their app on mobile, Glassdoor takes it to a whole new level. You can't view past the first page of reviews without making an account. No, thanks. I rather take my chances experiencing good or bad from a company than make an account with these people.

Websites like GlassDoor and Yelp are just out for your money. No one can prove a good or bad experience. Not everyone is a liar but at the same time, there are many people who would do anything to put down a business. That's why either side will end up being upset while these websites just take money in. If you rely on this website for any sort of background overview, you may lose out in the future.

Many of the jobs Glassdoor posts are not even open. For ones that are, I don't think many of the employers even look at the resumes. A recent "opening" for Blue Cross of Alabama is a case in point--for an associate internal auditor position. My wife submitted her resume. She is a CPA, CIA (Certified Internal Auditor), and has 13 years of audit and finance experience with the Auditor General's office in Florida and two major banks. She has also been a licensed financial advisor and at one time had her life and health insurance license. The job was posted at $40,000 to $56,000 annual salary. She said in her application she would expect $42,000.

There was no response and no expression of interest. That was 40 days ago. The "job" is still posted. To me, using Glassdoor reflects poorly on Blue Cross and any other legitimate employer. Most candidates get wise to what Glassdoor really is and just ignore their constant emails. The openings offered are always the same. It is as if they were never filled or never existed.

At once, dare i say, glassdoor was a legitimate company reviewing website. I had, (with emphasis on HAD) an account on their going back many, many, many years giving open and completely honest reviews of companies, especially when it came to interviews. My review were in depth with many "help" tagged.
So i login yesterday to yet again, review another company jerking candidates around to find that ALL OF MY REVIEWS HAVE BEEN DELETED.

There is absolutely no EXPLANATION AS TO WHY.

All i can say is; GLASSDOOR IS ACCEPTING MONIES TO REMOVE NEGATIVE REVIEWS.

This company should be should down and investigated. And its a damn shame too, as once, they were actually providing a positive service.

After reading the reviews and looking back at my own experience, I have to think that the consensus is true, that this is a money-making effort. I tried to post a more balanced review of the company that I work for, than what was on their site from an obviously disenchanted employee (pretty sure I know who it was, and they were a disgruntled employee). First off, the publishing tools didn't work, had to try multiple browsers and computers (six times!). Then, apparently my review was removed as it didn't follow some guidelines (link to which was broken). No notification as to why, just marked as removed. I reviewed the guidelines when I found them, and I am pretty sure I didn't violate. Meanwhile, I'm getting marketing emails from them every other day, even though I have hit unsubscribe every time. I wrote and asked for help, no response. So, they obviously don't care about their tools, their customer support, their service. I can't believe they received so much venture capital funding, but maybe the scam model is working.

Glassdoor can not be trusted and only leaves up positive reviews. I've worked for two companies now that staright up steal money and are unhunest and somewhow they had almost 5 stars. Later found out this was because the owener of campnies were paying to write positive reviews and have them kept up while all negative reviews were being taken down and glassdoor was abiding. This site can not be trusted. Don't bother to use it. Companies control this sight and employees really dont have a say in what is posted so it completely defeats the purpose of the site.

Our CEO was named in a review and was called "dishonest" by a toxic employee who was jealous and unprofessional (when she quit, she dramatically said she was going to sue the company, the CEO will "pay" and proceeded to cuss her colleagues out). Somehow, the employee forgot to take accountability for her terrible behavior during her time with the organization. Some of our employees tried to go online and counter this person's claims, but their reviews were erased or never posted. Truth is, Glassdoor makes money based on people's propensity for gossip, regardless of accuracy. The CEO who is no longer at the company lost a job opportunity due to the review, which is a terrible outcome, and not her fault. Where's the protection against emotionally troubled and vindictive former employees? Nope to Glassdoor, who is going downhill anyhow. Glassdoor's credibility as a company has diminished because they don't know how to solve this problem. Not all negative reviews are true and not all positive reviews are true. So what do you have? Nothing, they cancel each other out and you are left with a flaming dumpster job website.

So here is my opinion. I use other sites for a while but Glassdoor came to my eyes, so I thought it good to post a honest review on my company. It was mixed review with good and bad and what can work. I read their guidelines, and followed what they say. I made sure they are well written. Then, the review was removed by moderator. No feedback or any. I went back to their guideline and rewrite several times, same thing.

When I look at the reviews posted in Glassdoor, all are short, rough or lack accuracy. They are aligned from good, so good reviews catch eyes. Filtering works similarly. So review quality is no good, do not give an inside look and even gives a false impression. I searched the internet, I found quite a few complaints about similar situations.

When Glassdoor removes honest and informative reviews, they are just giving a false impression. The quality of reviews varies, so moderation is not done the same way for all reviews. I see Glassdoor reviews are censored or manipulated passively by that way, so it gives biased reflection of employee reviews. I thought they are reliable, but not anymore.

I took time following community guidelines to review a company I'd worked for and Glassdoor's response was to delete my review for no reason whatsoever, refuse to EVEN NOTIFY me let alone provide substantiation as to why. Then I get this lovely email that their terrible algorithms (I would know, I build these) identified me as a fraudulent review! Hilarious!

Thank you for following up. In regards to the recent reviews that have been removed from Glassdoor, we will reject reviews when we have sufficient reason to believe they were written by the same person.

Per our Community Guidelines, we only allow members to submit one review, per company worked at, per year. We have removed your reviews due to violation of this guideline.

We use proprietary technology filters & algorithms to detect attempted abuse and gaming. We do not discuss our methods to determine this, nor do we provide any additional information about reviews that have been submitted or rejected.

Kind regards,
Summer Adams
Glassdoor Content & Community Team

Glassdoor allows companies to review and delete reviews they feel hurt them and they are allowed to post countless positve reviews of themselves via network reputations sites and if they pay, Glassdoor will fight negative reviews by not allowing them for countless ignorant reasons. I post recent about a company wide furlough at a major Aerospace Company and Glassdoor rejected it becasue it was too specific. It was becasue Honeywell was trying ot keep it quiet and Glssdorr is helping them. I thought it good idea to post a honest review on my company. It was not a good review but it was accurate. I read their guidelines, followed what they stated, and they removed the negative review anyway. Glssdorr alwayts rejects bad reviews but never good reviews for the same reasons. I see good reviews stay and bad reviews removed some time later. So they are trying to get more good reviews so they will get support from employers? I thought the were a respectable company, but not anymore.

Recent unpleasant experience of Glassdoor in UK echoes what many other ONE STAR reviews have said here. Their policy seems to be to hide behind BS statements like "we are not the finders of fact" and admit that it is "often impossible" for them to know if a statement is true or not. Surely that means they know they are publishing lies.
My wife's company is being Trolled and certain senior managers being Cyber-bullied and Glassdoor defend this. Several posts are known to come from ex employees (out of date knowledge) (lack of awareness of new organisation structure) and contain pointed lies and insults. Providing a platform for behaviour that would be illegal face to face is highly questionable. Including character assassination in your business model is downright evil. There is a vast difference between criticising "the Management" and attacking a named individual. Glassdoor regularly lets that line get crossed- they seem to ignore the personal stress that causes. They may not bully themselves - but providing a platform and encouraging bullies is also bad. I think this company is morally bankrupt - avoid!

Just full of time wasting spiteful ex employees that aren't good at their job so make them self feel better by lying about their former employers

They take down negative reviews for completely bogus reasons and do not follow their own guidelines. First they said that they took it down because I included confidential information, though all I added to my review was information about PUBLIC legal matters and related information that is not considered confidential in US labor law and my employer's contract. Then when I clarified all that in my review, they gave me a totally new BS reason and said it violated community guidelines because they had reason to believe I was not an employee ever or at least in the last five years. First of all, that is not a listed reason in their community guidelines for removal. That does not even make sense since the reviews are confidential. Second, most of the information I gave was public records of events in the last few months! They clearly are reaching for whatever they can to protect the employers that pay them protection money. I hope they get what happened to Yelp. I'll do whatever I can to make sure they do.

Absolutely USELESS website- you cannot do one thing without disclosing all of your personal information including where you currently work, what your job title is and your current salary. Popups, email ads, this website and the people who run it are complete GARBAGE. Save your time and go to LITERALLY ANY OTHER WEBSITE.