How is your company's rating on Glassdoor?

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Jan 2, 2019 12 Comments

I laughed a cynical laugh when my company's rating in the US on Glassdoor was 1.7 at one point -- soon after some HR shills added bogus 5.0 ratings to push it upward -- and it's 2.7 worldwide with the CEO at about 45%.

Supposedly the average rating is over 3. How is your firm doing, and do you think that that rating reflects reality?

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  • Benefitfocus / Data
    dMOf15

    Go to company page Benefitfocus Data

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    Teradata, Walmart.com, Apple, Overstock.com
    dMOf15
    How relevant is Glassdoor data at this point? I don’t believe they ever roll off old salaries or ratings. So now we have over a decade of information that’s being averaged together.

    I know my current company has changed a lot in a year, let alone a decade.
    Jan 2, 2019 1
    • New
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      OP
      Do they weight recent data more heavily? Maybe they should. I find it instructive to read reviews from various years to get a sense of whether or not a company is fixing it's problems or making them worse.
      Jan 2, 2019
  • General Mills / Data
    BettyCoder

    Go to company page General Mills Data

    BettyCoder
    We’ve fallen to 3.7, used to be consistently in the 4s and a perennial best place to work. Then everyone started hating on Big Food and things got tough. I think the rating is a little low but people got shook up by the layoffs a few years back and the tough times ahead.
    Jan 2, 2019 3
    • General Mills / Data
      BettyCoder

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      BettyCoder
      I never blamed anyone nor am I shocked/surprised/angered or anything of the sort. I was merely stating what happened. The CPG industry was never about being the highest quality. It was good quality and saving time at a middle class price point. There’s always been cheaper options and there’s always been higher quality options. More people are choosing to spend more for the higher quality/lower volume choices or going back to spending more time on meal prep. Sign of the times. That’s all I was saying.
      Jan 2, 2019
    • Nielsen / Eng
      quantumC

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      quantumC
      Yeah you're absolutely right about all of that. Also, although my comment looked like an attack, that wasn't the case.
      Jan 2, 2019
  • New / Eng
    BhUrYr

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    BhUrYr
    My company rating fall down. They requested to employees (indirectly) post on Glassdoor.
    Jan 2, 2019 2
    • New
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      New

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      I hope that backfires on them!
      Jan 2, 2019
    • New / Eng
      BhUrYr

      New Eng

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      BhUrYr
      Nope, most of managers posted positive ratings 💖
      Jan 2, 2019
  • I used to work at a company that closely managed glassdoor and encouraged people to post positive reviews. It was a revolving door of employees and high turnover with low pay and poor management. It went from a 2 to a 4.

    Glassdoor is still useful but you have to read both the really negative and really positive reviews. If there are a lot of brief positive reviews and a lot of negative reviews that go into specifics and details then they are manipulating the system.
    Jan 2, 2019 1
    • New
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      My company has incisive, informative, insightful negative reviews balanced by the occasional comically-obvious HR-shill-written positive one. There is even a running joke going as multiple reviewers have used the same phrasings with increasing version numbers with each new writer.

      I'd look elsewhere but I'm on the wrong side of 40, haven't done a job search in decades, and would have no chance in today's cutthroat resume-shotgunning culture. So I choose to laugh cynically at my prison-warden employer instead.
      Jan 2, 2019
  • IBM
    VJsX64

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    VJsX64
    Lol.
    Jan 2, 2019 0