Glassdoor

Surprisingly useful. I have many years of work experience, and am new to this state. Glassdoor replaces what I would have found out from my network in my home town. Company's rating, interviews, salary, all the critically important stuff. I would not think of accepting a job offer without checking out Glassdoor. Of course, one must "read through the lines", since there will be some disgruntled employees, and some "glowing write-ups" not inline with most people's assessment. But overall, it very good.

Signed up with them a few months ago when I was searching for a part time job to work on the side. Their searches often would produce the same results as many other job banks, but when you subscribe to updates by email, they're annoying and useless as all out. Every notification I would get from them was advertising jobs on other states which does nothing but clog up my email account with junk. Also, it seems there's a lot of redundancy involved when applying for jobs through this search bank. It's nothing more then a waste of valuable time for anyone who is serious about looking for work and wanting to find entry level employment into a career.

Used to be a credible site, but now operate in a very shady manner and it seems they have pivoted from being somewhere you can get an open and honest picture of a workplace to a phoney corporate marketing site. My review was removed for supposedly violating their community guidelines, but having read and adhered to their guidelines in the process of writing the review, I knew that this was untrue. My only crime was having a negative opinion of a ghastly employer.
So, while employees are not allowed to post their true experiences, Glassdoor freely allows unscrupulous employers to submit endless numbers of obviously fake 5 star reviews (my former employer was well known for doing this).
I won't use their worthless website again.

Our company had one bitter staff who write several tones on Glassdoor. The reviews were completely exaggerated and stated impossible statistics, yet were published.
No recourse given to companies to address the inaccuracies - the so called company account offered was not workable despite multiple emails and exchanges.
Don't trust this horrible website.

This company is damaging our company reputation by allowing bitter ex employees to post untruthful and racist data. Not only that but their sales teams have been aggressively chasing us to use their services, job advertising and employer branding to capitalise on the damage they already created it. Nobody there listens, they have a customer service team for what? They never replied to me. As a result of major irritation due to their overly aggressive and unprofessional sales team, I contacted their CEO on LinkedIn in a desperate plea for help. Surprise! Nobody ever got in touch with me.

Glassdoor states "Your trust is our top concern, so companies can't alter or remove reviews." Yet will remove legit, honest, well written reviews on Companies when the Employer requests. I had two reviews removed back to back, first time they said I mentioned someone's name, which I never did. Second time I left a review for my employer they deleted it after 5 days with no reason, no e-mail or notice. Just removed it.

If your Employer is "Engaged" that means Glassdoor will honor requests to remove any post, regardless if you kept it within the community guidelines. Censorship at it's worst!

Like everyone else who signs up with glassdoor.com, I did so because I needed a job. After a year of getting four to six emails from them a day proclaiming "New job listings in your town!," only to discover that the listing had either expired or I'd seen the "new" job in different emails from glassdoor four times in the past week.

I've also begun getting spam job-referral emails from at least a dozen companies I never registered with, and they're all as bad (or worse) as glassdoor. Don't waste your time with these guys. They're only trying to make a buck off of our need for suitable employment by selling our email addresses to similar sites.

This company allows you to do 7 free days on a trial. Of course they take a credit card number to put on file but will charge you in the 6th day. I strongly recommend just going to craigslist for a $45 ad.

My results in the same time frame was the following:
*GlassDoor.com = 1 application from an irrelevant profession,
*Craigslist = 12 applications. 1/4 were relevant and qualifications were spot on to the job that was offered.

This site has no screening process! Every disgruntled employee (who potentially has been let go for just cause) can say salacious and unfounded things to attack businesses; rendering the rating system unreliable, injuring the reputation of the business, CEO's, and/or personnel. The damage is done once someone says something negative to tarnish the reputation of the business or about people who work for the company. I think Glass door needs to sincerely look at the screening model and do a better job unless it wants to be the TMZ of job search websites.

All their jobs are 30 days+ old, when you actually go and look on the actual hiring company website, the jobs are 99% of the time already gone. Glassdoor keeps sending me emails at least 3 times a day (with a climax of 13 times on ONE DAY), all those emails with irrelevant jobs not matching any of my skills, expired job offers or useless advice. They also try to promote a resume reviewing company that is a total scam for money. If you are looking for a job, don't waste your time with glassdoor and use something more legit like Monster.com or even Indeed.com.

Fell for the "free" advert routine.
Not only do you automatically get charged after the 7 days, no warning, no invoice, no confirmation- shows up on your banking statement. Guess the theory is the larger organisations will not notice. You can complain and be told clearly on the site... however I don't remember charges on the site.
Next month goes along and the same happens again- only this time it was cancelled so how do they explain this?
Looked up various reviews, this appears to be a practice they have adopted that works for them.