Glassdoor Review Manipulation
Comments express widespread skepticism about Glassdoor's reliability, citing companies paying to remove negative reviews, posting fake positives, and HR gaming the system to inflate ratings.
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Glassdoor isn't really trustworthy: companies can pay it to nuke bad reviews.
glassdoor is a fucking lie, use blind instead for real reviews. The coverage isn't as wide though.
Glasdoor community are marketing representatives from companies and angry employees. lots of negativity and fake or wrong submissions there.
Sometimes bad reviews get scrubbed on Glassdoor
I suspect Glassdoor mostly gets money from employers so it reflects what they like to see =)
A personal anecdote:I was working at a small (~30 person) company that had 9 developers leave within the span of a few months due to the same set of fundamental complaints.Several people posted reviews on Glassdoor. The reviews were negative but did not violate Glassdoor's content policy as far as any of us could tell (no naming individuals or making personal accusations, etc). Company had a 1.x star rating for a time.After a bit, the company becomes "actively engaged" on
Glassdoor is gamed. I've spoken to some multiple HR people who make fake reviews for their employer to counteract some bad reviews. I wouldn't trust it for smaller companies.
Guess Glassdoor is doing it's job.
Is there an alternative to Glassdoor we should be using?
Is there evidence of Glassdoor charging companies to get better reviews?