GlassdoorReviews 274

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.

Issues with glassdoor:
- Clogs up google results when it is literally useless, to the point it is spam
- You go on it because it's pushed all the other results off, but it hides the information and asks you to make an account
- You make an account, it still hides the information and asks you to provide data (in the form of salaries etc...)
- You provide the data; at this point you've spent way too much time when all you wanted was to see the bloody salary results they advertised on google
- You still can't access any of the information. Why? Because these unimaginable geniuses decided to forbid you from switching the site region you search in. In other words, if you live in some small European country, all the information which you worked so hard to obtain is gibberish in a language that you don't understand. There is no option to change the language. If you try to switch to glassdoor.com, it immediately redirects you back to the local copy of their website.
- The information that's on there, at least the numbers, is complete and utter rubbish. The salaries for the company I work for are wrong, plain and simple. Some jobs' salaries are way too high, others' are missing a several-hundred-thousand-euro bonus. There is probably not a single drop of useful information on this website. If you manage to jump all the hurdles and see some "data", you will come away older, more irritated, and much less informed than you were 15 minutes ago.

Glassdoor should be banned from Google, their IP should be blocked, and their servers should be confiscated and retooled for something more useful, like mining bottom-tier crypto coins. I wonder how these cretins make money, or who is paying them to store so much non-information. I can't imagine any of their investors or shareholders have ever had to visit the website itself. It's a puzzle for sure.

This is a total bull$#*! site which works with lots of bugs, our company reputation is at risk for this nonsense business.

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.

I posted an review on Glassdoor re my previous company, who is an unscrupulous employer refused to compensate employees by law for 13 years, half of the team in our office (13 ppls) gone in 2020, company required existing employees to sign legal document to give up their legal rights. A week later I found out Glassdoor removed my review secretly without any explanation. It is terrible. What Glassdoor did is going to make more victims in future, people deserved to know the truth and have a choice before they step into a trap!

Don't trust Glassdoor they are not reliable do not use them as a reference! They picked side and chose to close their eyes and see no just.

Glassdoor doesn't follow their own guidelines. They allow employees who have been coached and the left the ability to write defamatory and direct comments about the management, business, and employees specifically, yet when other employees try to tell the story of how it really is (without any names or positions) those are pulled down! So, if you are a business owner, why would you want to give your money and/or post jobs on Glassdoor when they only attract the poorest of employees?

First of all I have heard that the reviews and the info found on the site are actually not that reliable; many people have come forward and admitted that the company they work for ordered them to write fake reviews. I have also noticed that most companies do not even post anything about salaries or benefits... just what they want in a candidate leaving out entirely what you can expect from them.

But my main concern is how the site is now morphing into a website that it is just phishing for information. If you are registered you should be able to use the site, but now they have a feature that after 12 months you have to submit either salary info or post that you have a new job. I am currently still employed but looking so I referred back to this site to see if I could see anything about a potential company I'm looking into but they want this irrelevant info just for me to see these public reviews. They insist on you divulging your personal employment information but in my case the company I work for is a small, privately run company who doesn't even have a website so I am pretty sure they don't want all this info on some random site phishing for information. This never happened before either, I was able to search these reviews without any issue as it used to be public domain and all you needed to do was sign in. Still the reviews validity were likely in question but at least they weren't trying to phish for info you don't want to give.

Honestly with all the info out now about this site I wonder why it is still around? If companies can remove negative reviews and manipulate this info what good is it for job seekers? I won't be bothering with them in the future, unfortunately it seems like although as a society we are advancing technologically none of this is becoming helpful for searching out decent jobs. It's like companies all just lie and omit info, post fake reviews and in the end the worker who is just trying to get a decent job that suits them for long term employment is the one that gets shafted. This is a sad reality

They don't post your reviews unless they are positive, which makes the site a haven for scammers. I sent them a lot of evidence, in exchange they harassed me with dozens of emails for various departments, maybe you get fed up or get bored and give up. I see those who run the site as scammers as organizations that write their own positive reviews.
DO NOT rely on the advice of Glassdoor! Avoid this site.

I read the negative reviews on several companies i worked for and very few are NOT true or exaggerated. Maybe after reading those bad reviews the employer took action for doing better but nonetheless those reviews were useful about business mismanagement. A normal person should post an honest review to prevent more incidents in the future it's like giving blood. Glassdoor is among the last few line of defence from abusive employers due to a weak labor board who accept an employee to be terminate without a fair reason too often. Employers need to be more accountable and put in writing their reasons for termination to be send to the labor board for approval otherwise the job security is nonexistent. Deleting a bad review after it was accepted and posted on a review site is corruption by both the site and the employer. What can be done to change this, any suggestion?

My god is this website complete and utter garbage. Listen to our reviews. It looks nice, sleek, and easy to use. Then it hits you with required reviews and salaries to continue using it. It tried it's damnedest to sign me up for every f***ing email you can possibly think of, any time you search something it will try to update your location and make location alerts. Pop up after popup. It's the worst.

Every job I found, I could find on the company websites. Use Indeed instead. I can't believe I tried to use this website for an entire afternoon.

So imagine you're a young jobseeker, just starting out on your journey and you are trying to learn about what employees have said about a company you are wanting to apply for. You see that glassdoor has plenty of reviews on them, but as soon as you try to view them it completely blocks you and tells you to contribute your own review in order to see them. However if you've literally never worked anywhere you cannot damn well review anywhere now can you, and therefore you cannot actually use this website, so don't even bother. I actually assume they're doing this to mine as much data as possible, otherwise they'd let you in and simply ask you to contribute your own, when you've got one, because it would be a good thing to do.

At once, dare i say, glassdoor was a legitimate company reviewing website. I had, (with emphasis on HAD) an account on their going back many, many, many years giving open and completely honest reviews of companies, especially when it came to interviews. My review were in depth with many "help" tagged.
So i login yesterday to yet again, review another company jerking candidates around to find that ALL OF MY REVIEWS HAVE BEEN DELETED.

There is absolutely no EXPLANATION AS TO WHY.

All i can say is; GLASSDOOR IS ACCEPTING MONIES TO REMOVE NEGATIVE REVIEWS.

This company should be should down and investigated. And its a damn shame too, as once, they were actually providing a positive service.

They state they can provide top quality applicants. They state they are more efficient at what they do and provide employers with better qualified applicants. These are all lies. I get 50 applicants a month using much more transparent methods with half the investment. For double my normal investment per month, Glassdoor provided me with 0 applicants in my area, and then tried to play their competency by saying that people who applied 1000 miles away were qualified applicants. Not the case. It's sad, don't do it. Their customer service sucks and they won't refund a penny. Best wishes to you all!

Charlee Colwell is the manager of Glassdoor's Content and Community Team. Charlee has been rude and difficult to work with.

I spent a year at a low-level startup company that treated their employees poorly. When I switched jobs I went to add a review on Glassdoor. I left a very fair and polite review, but Glassdoor took it down and has refused to give me a straightforward reason why. I reached out via email to figure out the problem and was forwarded to Charlee, who could not care less. Charlee is now ignoring my emails and refusing to put my review back up. Once again, my review was extremely polite and in my opinion, too fair to the company.

Glassdoor can't be counted on or trusted with reviews if they are being biased on their selection of what is being posted.

Glassdoor does not reply to employer flagged reviews. I flagged, emailed and called. I only got action when I received an email thanking me for a call and they were glad we spoke and they could help--the call never happened and no one was spoken with! When I finally got a live person after over 5 weeks of trying it was the wrong department I was sent to --and they conveyed the issue to someone who denied the request without even looking at the defamatory comments and just spouting their guidelines policy. We may have to now take legal action. Thankfully no one has read the review in over 30 days. Other review sites much more helpful and willing to listen to employer complaints. Mind you we are not perfect and we will certainly accept truthful negative reviews from ex-employees, current employees or customers. The key is telling the truth. We do respond to positive and negative reviews to the extent we can but false statements should invalidate the review and be taken down.