Glassdoor

The website deletes real reviews because some HR from a drowning company because of a lack of interpersonal skills and insecurity reports real reviews. What a disappointment.

Glassdoor offers nothing but inaccuracy, I have read many reviews about the company I currently work for and it is very clear to me that every employees who fails in his performance at his or her position and is fired few days later I see a very negative comments about the company but none of it is true, Glassdoor has become a site for slandering companies CEOs and CFOs, managers whether is true or not it is a place for failed people to release their anger.
I belive Glassdoor owners themselves know that their site is full of hot air and nothing more,
They use the site to collect personnel info to sell to recruiting agencies, basically they make money from slandering companies and their managements they should be ashamed of themselves for running such a scam.

I tried to write a negative review about *real* experience at a *real company* and the review was negative without exaggeration. I think that GrassSore thought that I was making up what I wrote because they sent ma a form note saying that I would have to improve my review or they would not post it. That is a dishonest way of telling me to make a dishonest review about my honest explanation of what happened badly at a company where I had worked.

I use glassDoor's salary estimation some times. Females who are in my 'industry' say that their estimates are 30 to 50 thousand dollars less than mine, and MANY OF THE WOMEN are MORE QUALIFIED than I am.

Thanks, GD for perpetrating gender bias in wages for females. GlassDoor should rename how they treat women to GlassCeiling.

Tks for listening

They like to try and Bully Adjusters and Claim they repair vehicle per Factory Specs, Which I have obtained statements from a Former Employee that said They do not, I also have a Statement from a vehicle owner that said they tried to Make the Insurance Company pay for and entire Body side instead of repairing a Three inch dent, Which totaled theyre vehicle and cost them Thousands, They are disliked by all body shops and adjusters in all of Western NC.

Glassdoor is about to be sued! I had a horrible interview by a company and posted the negative experience on GLASSDOOR. The Directors of the student loan division for GC SERVICES here in Knoxville, TN DEMANDED THAT I BRING MY CURRENT EMPLOYERS PROPRIETARY INFORMATION WITH ME ON TEAM STATS (call center) to my interview. This is illegal, I posted my concern on GLASSDOOR AND GC SERVICES FLAGGED MY NTERVIEW FOR REMOVAL. Since GC SERVICES IS PAYING ALOT OF MONEY TO GLASSDOOR TO CONTINUOUSLY POST NUMEROUS POSITIONS --Glassdoor removed my honest review in order to please the company that was paying them! GLASSDOOR IS NOTHING BUT A LOW LEVEL FALSE ADVERTISING PIECE OF CRAPP. I RECORDED MY INTERVIEW AND CAN PROVE EVERYTHING THAT WAS SAID

I used to think Glassdoor was a legitimate site, until I had my and some of the other co-workers' negative reviews removed. Without any explanation. When asked for one, we were given "pre-packaged" responses about having violated company trade secrets or given out confidential information. None of it was true. Our reviews were specific and had legitimate complaints, such as no raise for years, few benefits for hard work that required special qualifications, poor treatment of employees. These were NOT trade secrets or confidential info. These reviews were approved previously, but were removed most likely when our company got concerned about their low ratings. At the same time, in matter of only 2 weeks, our company somehow received at least two dozen of raving, positive reviews. Which instantly inflated their rating, although no measures were taken to remedy the complaints many employees in the company have.
Unfortunately, it appears that there is some kind of deal going on between Glassdoor and companies/corporations willing to pay them to create a false image or to inflate their ratings, which may be low for a reason. It renders this website useless and misleading. Moreover, I was shocked when I read the reviews posted here and found out that Glassdoor may even use negative reviews as a leverage to extort money from companies/employers. What a disgrace! And disservice to both prospective employees and companies alike! I WAS VERY SADDENED AND DISAPPOINTED! PLEASE DO NOT TRUST GLASSDOOR WEBSITE!

Is there a gov agency monitoring this false business?
Then we should all get together and do a class action suit against GD
They are terrorizing both employers and emplyees and then asking us for money $$$
If we pay $800 a month like $10,000 annually they will monitor our site to their liking
If not they allow anyone to post anything multiple times and destroy our integrity:
Come on lets all get together and pitch a class action suit against GD
Add to this list
They are THE FAKE FALSE BILLION DOLLAR SCAM OF THIS DECADE
And worst then all of this is GD and all of their employees who support DECEIPT & DECEPTION FALSE & FAKE
Lets unite and get this under government control or who has licensed this trash GD?
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Antonio

Glassdoor is a scam.

Unfavorable reviews disappear and are magically replaced by favorable ones. Take a look at Google's cached version of this page: http :// webcache. Googleusercontent. Com/search? Hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.glassdoor. Com%2FReviews%2FCigital-Reviews-E*******. Htm&oq=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.glassdoor. Com%2FReviews%2FCigital-Reviews-E*******. Htm&aq=f&aqi=g4&aql=&gs_nf=1&gs_l=hp. 3.0l4.828.1719. 0. 2016. 7. 5. 0. 0. 0. 0. 141. 532. 2j3. 5. 0. KT9SUeTRQ1o&pbx=1; as of Feb 22 2012, there was this very bad review, titled ""Less learning, less interesting, more pressure, more billability: overall a slide downhill in the past 2 years"". 2 months later, poof! It's gone, and now there's this new one - "Cigital – "Overall, Cigital is a great place to work."". Would you be blamed for thinking that Glassdoor takes money from the HR departments of bad companies?

I always respected Glassdoor and went to their website when considering a new employer.

Definitely no longer. Don't help them make more money on your futile clicks.

After posting my last unpublished review I won't go back. Don't worry they won't care because they are making money from goody-goody employer-driven publishing platforms and are being supported by and subsidized by big business companies to keep their mouths shut.

They are no longer a free forum for telling the truth about unethical companies, don't waste your time people. Got to "Rate My Employer" instead.

Going back to 2009 I saw that they had published the very accurate reviews of a (un-named) company I had intimate knowledge of and worked for, I whole-heartedly agreed with the employee reviewers from multiple departments and thought how wonderful, someone is finally telling the truth about this shady company!

I thought what a novel and great idea for unsuspecting potential employees to make an informed decision from those who have "walked the walk and talked the talk". Could save you considerable time and heartache working for an unethical company that treats its employees like crap...

Fast forward to 2015. I worked for a horrendous company and decided I should let unsuspecting future employees know. I wrote a thoughtful and well-informed insider-review, the first one! No response and no publication! They didn't do it. So... my assumption is that Glassdoor is not what they are saying... they have been bought out and silenced by businesses trying to give themselves a positive spin.

Move on and don't bother.

There are better websites available to let you know whether you should take the plunge with a new employer. Websites willing to take the risk...

I give 2 stars because of some strong biases I experienced with them, but the overall idea of Glassdoor is necessary and welcome.

glassdoor.com is a good idea because of the possibility for employees and job seekers to know the real truth about corporations in a world where information is controlled and manipulated by these corporations. Especially on the internet.

But, as always, they sell their services to companies who happen also to be the same companies that are reviewed in glassdoor.com.

Conflicts of interests? There are some of course,

While most of time it's still possible to tell the truth about an employer, there are some "untouchable" companies like google.
If you publish a bad review about google, the chances are it won't be posted or you will have to change it completely.

It happened to me, after google lied to me about a job offer they pretended to be based in Germany while in fact they were recruiting for their call centre in Dublin, Ireland.
The job description was crystal clear about the location, Germany. It is called false advertising and it's illegal.

Google is a specialist of false job ads as they post hundreds of them every months that don't correspond to any openings. They just justify the existence of their HR services, look healthy and collect profiles and data.

But, telling this to glassdoor.com is an anathema and duly censored.

Of course there are also fake reviews from marketers or management of the companies who want to have high appraisal while they are sordid places. Inversely, there are also some competitors trying to blacken the reputation of their opponents.

But the large majority are just employees or job seekers who are telling what they experience, or have experienced with companies through their reviews and most of them are fair.
There is no reason why it should be a one way system. Corporations are demanding references and are deeply checking on employees and candidates. Employees have the right to have the same demands.

After a short chat with a sales rep who contacted me, our organization chose to ignore Glassdoor's sales pitch. Nothing rude, we just did not respond. Shortly thereafter, we were contacted by another sales rep, noting that we had a great increase in traffic to our site. We did not reply. Then, it happened again, with a different sales rep. Within one year, we had three of their sales reps contact us, and they always had a misleading link in the email to get our eyes on our Glassdoor reviews.
They are not permitted to share that we do not look good on Glassdoor, apparently, but they do all they can to get us to see how our company looks horrible. After reading reviews and discussing with a sales rep, I'm positive it is because of how they manipulate the placement of the reviews, as in which reviews are seen on the landing page, which are seen first, etc., and it left me with no other question for the sales rep but to ask- how can I get these bad reviews taken care of? Some are manipulative and flat-out false, and some are clearly not even related to our company. They can't do anything except sell sell sell, because no emails or phone calls are returned regarding conflicting information and so on.

If you're curious, for around $1000 per month they'll dust those reviews under the rug and promote your best reviews to the top. Furthermore, you'll need to pay to post jobs with Glassdoor, because then they'll find reviews from people who have held the job you're hiring for, and they'll stack the landing page so that the best of the best are sitting right next to the application link. That is what you get for your money. The icing on the cake is that they'll send us monthly analytics proving that they've influenced x amount of candidates to apply with us, using the exact method outlined above, and thankfully for them this cycle never ends.
The moment a company pulls the plug on Glassdoor, it goes back to looking terrible on Glassdoor's site and all previous effort and funding is lost. How is this not illegal? Isn't this a form of blackmail?

If you are considering believing reviews on this site consider this:
1. Companies can post their own reviews as often as they want. This will offset negative reviews and make the company appear better.
2. Fired Employees can post as often as they want. This will result in a "good" company appearing to be bad because one person (who legitimately could have been fired for theft, violence, discrimination, etc) goes on endless tirades.
3. Almost all reviews for all companies come in date clusters. This is because of the above where an angry ex employee posts endlessly which is followed by the company HR department posting twice as many (or vice versa).

Unlike "Yelp" where reviews come from actual diners and you can look at other reviews from the poster to gauge the trustworthiness of their review, this site makes everyone (company or fired employee) anonymous and you can't link to their account to see all the things they have posted. (i. E, a person has posted dozens of reviews on dozens of companies in a short period of time; likely it is because they keep getting fired or keep quitting v. s Yelp where a reviewer might have a dozen reviews but because you can click the user and see what they have said about other places (some of which you might have also been to) it helps set a bar for their reviews.) In the least, Glassdoor should allow access to any post made by the same user but they don't because they know it would tell the aforementioned story and kill their ad revenue that they generate by saying their site has X amount of unique users.

If you are in the market for a job, don't let this site and the reviews (positive or negative) enter into your decision making process. If you can get an interview, go to the interview, ask questions and if you are still unsure, ask to talk with some of the other employees that you would be working with. Most companies (if they are at the stage of offering you a position) would have no issue with this as they would be equally happy to ensure everyone is a fit for each other before officially offering the position.

They make very difficult for employees to post honest negative reviews. They will simply remove your review claiming that violates community guidelines without pointing out specific reasons or passages in your review that violate such guidelines.

Contacting help desk doesn't help much. They seem to barely understand English. You get a very strong feeling that messages from customer support are heavily scripted. I googled for the person specifically replying to my complaint and I could not find her on Linkedin. But from the name, I don't think the person is a English native speaker.

If you make any specific questions, staff simply won't answer. All you get is scripted gibberish. It's like trying to start a conversation with a voice activated toaster. They surely don't seem qualified to moderate reviews.

Beware as they are tricky: They will approve your review quickly and remove it a couple of days later without any warning to avoid having to engage in a discussion with the reviewer. I know of people that weren't even aware that their negative reviews had been removed.

I did have a couple of reviews published after submitting several times with minor re-wordings, but takes a large amount of patience.

I would say that if other people are having the same hard time publishing negative reviews on Glassdoor I'm having (and they seem to have, just google), people should probably take any negative review published very seriously.

Also, if you are careful analyzing reviews, you will find many one-liner reviews with 5 stars right after a negative review is posted. These look suspiciously fake. Their purpose seem to be pushing negative reviews to the back. It's worth to mention that the company rating do not take in consideration the number of times it was marked as "Helpful". It's simply the average of all reviews no matter if they have been marked as "Helpful" or not, so take company review rates with a pinch of salt and always read the reviews carefully, specially the negative ones.