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How much can you rely on the company reviews in Glassdoor? I interviewed for a German startup company with a rating of 4.8. There was an assignment that involves two microservice written in two different languages and involves two different communication protocol. I completed and submitted the assignment but there was no response after that. Later I found in a negative review in Glassdoor that they seek for production solutions through the interview assignments. Not sure about the authenticity of the review, but maybe possible. So, how much do you rely on Glassdoor positive reviews? P.S. Don't judge. I accepted the assignment as I found it very interesting and it's now available in my GitHub account publicly.
I think they are super helpful en masse. If when comparing companies with 500+ reviews, I think you start to notice several themes. But there are caveats: 1) watch for low number of reviews 2) sort between full and part time workers as they often have different views on the company. 3) the salary data can be a few years behind, and bonuses/commission/stock/variable are often input incorrectly.
I worked at a company that suddenly laid off half its employees after a business deal fell through. The company tried claiming they were firing “bad workers” instead of laying people off. Overnight, the office cleared out. The people who were still there were surrounded by empty desks. Of course, the bad reviews poured in from people who were unfairly fired. They exposed all the dirty laundry on Glassdoor. The HR director made the remaining employees leave 5-star reviews. The mixture of paragraph-long 1-star reviews and generic 5-star reviews made it very obvious to readers that the company was trash. The negative reviews are still on Glassdoor.
Depends on the company. In Verifone’s case, they acquired a number of companies, and then were acquired themselves. And there have been several rounds of layoffs. Plus they have worldwide operations. So, what is the viewpoint that you would be looking for — the “fresher” from India, the “lifer” from Atlanta, or the dissolutioned from Canada Romania? I would only trust the negative reviews. After a few months of mostly negative reviews, we noticed a slew of positive ones. Then on a town hall meeting we hear that the CEO has “taken care of” the problem.
Yeah, a company I used to work for has had a slew of bad reviews with people calling out a lot of the same issues, including issues that were problems when I was still there. And then there’s a smattering of 5 star reviews that basically say the same thing verbatim, posted on the same day. Someone was definitely told to post some positive reviews. They are also having an exodus of employees leaving due to the wfh policy they announced a couple months ago. And they haven’t had much luck filling in those seats. It’s bad enough that one of the execs told the sales people to scale back growth. His excuse was that there’s too much business so they don’t need to keep growing. Add to that a number of execs dumping their stock in the company, and it doesn’t look good. Both of the people I still know there are interviewing to get out ASAP.
Was it Delivery Hero? They asked me to implement a REST API and then after reviewing the submission, asked me to implement gRPC.
Delivery hero is not 4.8 rating :)
Although the salaries are outdated on Glassdoor, the reviews can be pretty useful. I usually look for those things that come back from time to time, because those things will not change even in the long term. Sorry for your bad experience, this is not a fair way to handle interviewees. And even if it is not entirely true, if you put effort into writing the task, they should at least reject you in an email.
Did you see, Ericsson's rating changed from 3.4 to 4.0 in last 2 years?
Last 1-2 years reports were favorable, so I am not surprised by that. But I believe it will be worse this year 🙂
Companies routinely pay to remove bad reviews. So if they have bad reviews it just means they are cheap
How much you believe Amazon, Google and Yelp reviews ?
They remove negative reviews pretty frequently (despite saying they don't). Almost any time I go back to refer to a negative company or interview review, it's gone. So I put a lot of weight into the negative reviews when I can find them.
Does a company have authority to remove or delete company's negative reviews from Glassdoor? I believe they cannot change the rating though.
No idea, GD says no but my eyes say otherwise