Glassdoor

I was a regular user of Glassdoor and thought the site was somewhat useful. The trick being that I would just self filter the 1 star (you'll be sold into slavery if you work here) and 5 star (we have unicorns that fart rainbows) reviews. I even contributed off and on and most of my reviews were 3 and 4 stars over the prior 5 years or so.

That opinion has since changed.

I wrote a 2 star review about something that had happened at one organization. Suddenly my all reviews have been removed from their site. I wasn't told about their removal or why they were removed, I discovered it on my own. I sent an email asking if there was a problem.

The first response was a message that they reject bogus reviews. It followed up by saying users should only post content related to jobs they held. I replied and offered to provide proof that I had worked for or interviewed with every company I had commented on. The next claim was that they remove the reviews "when they have sufficient reason to believe they were written by the same person". My reply was what are you talking about, yes, I wrote them under my account. Of course they were written by the same person. Lol. The most recent response was en email claiming I was impersonating another person or their email or misrepresenting current or former affiliation with an employer ( we're full circle!). I have no idea what they are talking about. The discussion was happening using my primary email, the same email I used to register for their site years ago.

I can only guess that it was the recent 2 star review. I can't be sure because they would not provide a concise reason. It was just random clips of their terms of use and guidelines that seemed to accuse me of doing something nefarious. I do know that I no longer trust their review site and personally no longer utilize it.

The only condolences I have is reading about experiences from other people. It sounds like a few have had the same exact events happen to them too.

This is a total bull$#*! site which works with lots of bugs, our company reputation is at risk for this nonsense business.

This is a true story of my company. We are a small technology company in San Jose with no branch in any other country though we employee overseas vendors from time time. I painstakingly tried to build this company from my own money. In that process I lost my home, my property and everything though I am positive that I will bounce back. We are all silicon valley engineers and we all work as a team with very little/no salary.
Some frauds who contacted us for some contract work that they would do from India and we hired them and due to poor quality we terminated them. As a personal Vendetta posing as empolyess of our company they put extremely bad reviews about our company. Despite requesting several times to Glassdoor they never removed those reviews. I offered to give them my CPAs contact details so that they can find out how many employees we had in our payroll. All of us in the team are shocked about the contents such as "jokers" "Cheating others", which anyway violate the review posting policies of Glassdoor. One of our potential customers saw that and brought that to my attention. Ever since he is not responding to my emails/ calls. It seems we lost him.
I made very emotional appeal to them that this is a fake review that appears on the first page of Google. We are a company and we have families to feed. But they did not change.
I wish I had some money to challenge it legally. I am broke and the the only livelihood I have this small business that Glassdoor destroyed for no fault of us. There should be some law to save small business that are always vulnerable to such online so called review sites. People who had similar experiences let us contact each other to figure out whether we can slap a class action law suit against these SOBs.
I am an engineer by profession working on latest technology such as cloud & machine learning. I am networked with many start ups. This company will never get business from my current or future company.
Let's start a no patronage campaign against Glassdoor.

These employer review sites are a great idea. Obviously, the managers bad-mouthing them don't agree, since it hinders their ability to get off on harassing and abusing their workers. They feel any worker who refuses to be a doormat is a disgruntled worker. Foxnews even put out an article trying to get candidates to not use these sites to weed out bad employers, which shows they fear it will threaten the ability of management to lure in new victims to be abused. If such a pro-management network so strongly opposes it, then it must be good for workers.
Modern corporate mangers have become sadistic bullies who get a perverse pleasure out of harassing and threatening innocent working people who are struggling to make a living and support their families. They abuse ‘performance reviews' as an excuse to harass, bad-mouth and even slander their people. After the employee leaves, they use the ‘reference' system to continue harassing and slandering their ex-employees.
Management whines that employer review sites turn the tables and give innocent workers a chance to weed out bad and abusive employers. If you can't take it, don't dish it out.
Companies say only disgruntled employees complain when their boss abuses them. Get used to it, employer review sites are here to stay. A good employer treats its people right with fairness and honesty so they don't become disgruntled. Complaints from disgruntled employees show that the employer is at fault, not the employees. If you don't want workers calling you a bad boss, then don't be a bad boss.
The only problem with indeed is that you have to hunt some to get to the employer review. Ideally, the average rating of the employer would show up at the top of the page showing the job offer. It's not that hard to find the review, but it still could be easier. Some people using the site might not even realize that a rating of the employer is even available on indeed.

Issues with glassdoor:
- Clogs up google results when it is literally useless, to the point it is spam
- You go on it because it's pushed all the other results off, but it hides the information and asks you to make an account
- You make an account, it still hides the information and asks you to provide data (in the form of salaries etc...)
- You provide the data; at this point you've spent way too much time when all you wanted was to see the bloody salary results they advertised on google
- You still can't access any of the information. Why? Because these unimaginable geniuses decided to forbid you from switching the site region you search in. In other words, if you live in some small European country, all the information which you worked so hard to obtain is gibberish in a language that you don't understand. There is no option to change the language. If you try to switch to glassdoor.com, it immediately redirects you back to the local copy of their website.
- The information that's on there, at least the numbers, is complete and utter rubbish. The salaries for the company I work for are wrong, plain and simple. Some jobs' salaries are way too high, others' are missing a several-hundred-thousand-euro bonus. There is probably not a single drop of useful information on this website. If you manage to jump all the hurdles and see some "data", you will come away older, more irritated, and much less informed than you were 15 minutes ago.

Glassdoor should be banned from Google, their IP should be blocked, and their servers should be confiscated and retooled for something more useful, like mining bottom-tier crypto coins. I wonder how these cretins make money, or who is paying them to store so much non-information. I can't imagine any of their investors or shareholders have ever had to visit the website itself. It's a puzzle for sure.

The Glassdoor model is built on the following scam:

1. Solicit hate from disgruntled employee and competitors, by allowing anonymous posts
2. Encourage employers to post reviews by real employees to counter
3. Encourage employees to post responses to increase SEO
4. Spam employers to pay thousands to counter negative review positioning
4. Spam real employees with daily job offers and ads, encouraging them to leave
5. Remove employees from the business, and encourage the employer to use Glassdoor recruiting services for fees.

Their are no ethical approaches here.

Glassdoor manipulates reviews and statistics in order to generate PR by targeting larger tech companies and financial institutions as well as FMCG companies. They award their CEO's despite their having average reviews, in order to generate PR.

They put out masses of PR to stop any negative reviews of their business.

The flaw:
1. Employers get wise and stop posting responses
2. Employers get wise and stop having employees respond
3. Employers refuse to pay for blackmail review positioning techniques
4. Glassdoors model does not make $. Their sales team can not make targets as hate does not sell.

Glassdoor continues to raise funds from Silicon Valley investors to fund their numerous high paid staff but do not generate real revenue.

Their CEO Robert Hoffman is a bigoted fraud and his senior staff are aware of this and discuss internally between them. Their Head of Legal Brad Serwin is a fraud and a bully, as noted by his own team. The sales team believe it is a matter of time before the company is sold for it's data as targets are unachievable and the business model is simply not sound.

In order to respond to Glassdoor, take every opportunity to share this message and post on their videos on Google, Youtube and every social site.

Our country was not founded on free speech in order to have commercial Silicon Valley capitalists destroy reputations, and harm business. Our country needs action to defend this attack on our liberty and values.

First of all I have heard that the reviews and the info found on the site are actually not that reliable; many people have come forward and admitted that the company they work for ordered them to write fake reviews. I have also noticed that most companies do not even post anything about salaries or benefits... just what they want in a candidate leaving out entirely what you can expect from them.

But my main concern is how the site is now morphing into a website that it is just phishing for information. If you are registered you should be able to use the site, but now they have a feature that after 12 months you have to submit either salary info or post that you have a new job. I am currently still employed but looking so I referred back to this site to see if I could see anything about a potential company I'm looking into but they want this irrelevant info just for me to see these public reviews. They insist on you divulging your personal employment information but in my case the company I work for is a small, privately run company who doesn't even have a website so I am pretty sure they don't want all this info on some random site phishing for information. This never happened before either, I was able to search these reviews without any issue as it used to be public domain and all you needed to do was sign in. Still the reviews validity were likely in question but at least they weren't trying to phish for info you don't want to give.

Honestly with all the info out now about this site I wonder why it is still around? If companies can remove negative reviews and manipulate this info what good is it for job seekers? I won't be bothering with them in the future, unfortunately it seems like although as a society we are advancing technologically none of this is becoming helpful for searching out decent jobs. It's like companies all just lie and omit info, post fake reviews and in the end the worker who is just trying to get a decent job that suits them for long term employment is the one that gets shafted. This is a sad reality

For years I have used Glassdoor as an insight into the culture and overall attitude of current and former employees at companies I am interested in working for. I have always understood that there are going to be really good reviews and really bad reviews at any company. That is just the nature of the beast. In addition to the great and horrible reviews there were usually well throughout and written reviews that gave an honest insight into the pros and cons of working at a specific company.

I often found that I could get insight into things such as work/life balance, career opportunity, pay scale and raises, and the general culture and attitude of people who worked there. I also made an effort to contribute my own feedback and attempted to keep it updated as things improved or got worse.

About two years ago I left an employer for a better opportunity. I was unhappy working there overall and when I left I updated my review to indicate it was a previous employer and include my position. My review was written professionally and the balance of pros and cons was equally weighted. Many other reviews about the employer were very negative and the company overall rating was low.

After a couple of months I noticed in my contributions menu that my review had been removed. When I navigated to the company page there were about twenty new reviews that were raving about how great the company was. It appeared that all neutral and negative reviews were gone. Another interesting thing I noticed was that the company was now posting jobs and other information on Glassdoor.

Thinking I might have said something that violated Glassdoor rules I decided to write another review. I read all the rules posted on their site and again wrote a balanced review. Glassdoor approved this review but then about two months later removed it. I also watched new reviews get consistently posted and then they were removed a couple of weeks later.

Curious how this was happening I talked to a friend of mine who works in recruiting for large company. He informed me that as a paying member Glassdoor will take down just about anything they request. Also many companies flex their muscles and threaten lawsuits if content isn't removed.

After this experience I no longer have respect for Glassdoor or its reliability. It's sad that companies can manipulate a tool like this and prevent job seekers from properly evaluating a potential employer.

This site USED to be good, useful and honest - until this year or so (2016). I'd been using this site to leave HONEST reviews for several years - no problems, all reviews (even if they were negative) were approved and posted for ages with NO problems whatsoever. Until just recently, when I logged in and noticed that EVERY SINGLE ONE of my NEGATIVE (but honest and approved for MANY YEARS) reviews for ALL companies were all suddenly removed for "not following guidelines". (?!)

This is TOTAL NONSENSE because they were ALL APPROVED and were up on the site for years -- and all of a sudden, they "don't follow guidelines"? This is a bull$#*! excuse. Translation: GLASSDOOR HAS SOLD OUT TO EMPLOYERS WHO HAVE EVERY NEGATIVE REVIEW REMOVED AND ONLY ALLOW THE POSITIVE ONES TO REMAIN (even the ones that are so sickeningly sweet, it's GLARINGLY OBVIOUS the company managers wrote them!). Which creates a very FAKE and ROSY picture of even the worst, most scamming, cheating and terrible companies out there. So how is this helping anyone exactly?!

And to top it off, they don't even NOTIFY you of the removal(s)... SHADY...

I'm done with Glassdoor and NO ONE should waste their time writing ANY honest reviews on this page, because they will just reject or accept it and then randomly secretly delete it a few days later if it's not glowingly positive and unauthentically $#*!-kissing to the company in question. SHAME ON YOU, GLASSDOOR! You USED to be reputable, but I CLEARLY see this is no longer the case. As of 2016 and onwards, GLASSDOOR IS NON-LEGIT. Don't believe everything you read, ESPECIALLY on those companies that have mounds of glowing reviews and little else.

Glassdoor is fabricated information, they reject reviews based on facts.