I’ve noticed a surge in rampant fake positivity across the site. Companies have figured out how to game the review system pretty easily; far more so than in years past. Before and after my job search, I’ve seen toxic startups, months away from burning through their last dollar somehow manage to consistently receive positive reviews. Fawning language in every review. All 5 stars. Perfect grammar, no misspellings, the exact same voice. Gradually, within a year, what was once a 3.9 gets bumped right up to a 4.7 and beyond Has Glassdoor stopped caring about the quality of its reviews?
Glassdoor is and always has been full of shit. The salaries on there are so low it's almost questionable.
Which other websites have reliable reviews and salaries
Paysa or blind. For a non-salary review site, the most negative and ironically the most trustworthy is Yelp.
Paysa seems to trend high from what I've seen. Glassdoor trends low. At least for Bay Area tech. I assume truth is somewhere in the middle
There are still some genuine reviews. Some ways to identify is filter for reviews with lower rating and then see how many has flagged them as helpful. One great example of employees retaliating and company posting fake reviews are the company “MZ”. Go take a look and you will understand how Glassdoor works :)
Lol I mercifully didn't pass final rounds at MZ. Bullet dodged. No sour grapes, definitely been other jobs I wanted that I didn't get, but man I might have made an awful decision there.
Glassdoor maybe had a year of legitimacy, but I haven’t taken it seriously in eons. It’s either intensely angry “LE” employees or HR-generated puffery. Sounded like a great idea in theory, and it’s a potentially valuable thing to do, but they didn’t figure it out. It’s really, really hard to know what a company’s actual culture is and what the day to day is like.
Basically it’s marred by the same problems every other anonymous rating company faces. We can’t really do anything about fake but seemingly legitimate reviews... unless of course we can detect bots. But it is still a great place for looking at base pay, interview questions, benefits, etc. and some of the more angry rants are very revealing
Detecting bots is not enough if it’s worthwhile to hire humans (/delegate HR hours) to write puffy reviews
I see lots of reviews that are basically: Pros: almost everything Cons: the awesome free snacks are making me too squishy Seems like the kind of stuff HR would post.
Just add a field to rate HR out of 5. This of course would be a trick question. Anyone who votes for 5/5 would be shadowbanned.
I have worked for many companies and I have found the Glassdoor reviews, when taken in an aggregate, to be mostly true. Especially if there are more than 200-300 reviews, it’s fairly reliable in terms to getting preview of the overall company culture. Regarding salary review, it’s garbage.
I felt the same way for the last five years but since Glassdoor was acquired by that recruiting firm, positive reviews seem to be subject to even less vetting
No glassdoor employees on here? Are they still developing code, or is it on auto pilot now?
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