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I have recently found out that glassdoor use negative company reviews as leverage to squeeze some kind of membership subscription out of companies.

Myself and a host of other employees who walked out of a company (due to be asking to do some things that were basically illegal) had left 100% honest reviews on glassdoor about the company to warn off anybody who might be suckered into employment there. Roll on five weeks, they have all been deleted. We had been warned that this might happen so instead of writing seething reviews, we made sure that the reviews were very well balanced and refrained from mentioning the illegal activities that we were asked to partake in.

Apparently once a company gets a few negative reviews glassdoor contacts them and makes them aware of the reviews. Glassdoor suggests that the company sign up for a paid subscription which will result in each review being scrutinised under much stricter posting rules... rules which apparently only about 8% of reviews manage to get past.

So glassdoor is basically a scam.

Posts are by fired people who are not employable to a respectable job and have serious ethical problems. Either the first statement is true or they are purchased post from the employer. Glassdoor offered my company to remove the post at huge cost. Unfortunately, prospective employees do google search to find more information about the job position and the employer and glassdoor review hits. It is seriously harmful to the both side platform. Their business model is based on making business victim first followed by securing revenue from them. A Very unethical source of revenue glassdoor has set for itself.

This website is just not useful or seemingly legitimate anymore. Years ago, I used to browse Glassdoor to see median salaries and see what places were good to work for. Everything looked perfectly fine, and everyone seemed to have legitimate good and bad experiences.

Now, the company just looks really fake and uninviting. First, it's useless on mobile. Second, it's useless everywhere else. Just like those shopping websites that require your email before browsing their content, and just like Yelp that doesn't allow you to browse without their app on mobile, Glassdoor takes it to a whole new level. You can't view past the first page of reviews without making an account. No, thanks. I rather take my chances experiencing good or bad from a company than make an account with these people.

Websites like GlassDoor and Yelp are just out for your money. No one can prove a good or bad experience. Not everyone is a liar but at the same time, there are many people who would do anything to put down a business. That's why either side will end up being upset while these websites just take money in. If you rely on this website for any sort of background overview, you may lose out in the future.

Terrible site
Allows people to post anonomous reviews
Which brings out the real lack luster, untalented, lazy employees to disparage hard- working, talented and driven coworkers
I have been under a "attack" by one or more low-lives since the hiring of one of our employees
The site allows people to post multiple reviews under different names and other info- I have tested it
Have made positive reviews of my company and have also written reviews responding to some of the false negative reviews
Glassdoor does not screen individuals at all
You could be from another planet and they would post your negative review
Glassdoor is truly a terrible site and I will tell everyone I know how I feel
I hope this is anonymous, I wouldn't want anyone to know who I am!

Many of the jobs Glassdoor posts are not even open. For ones that are, I don't think many of the employers even look at the resumes. A recent "opening" for Blue Cross of Alabama is a case in point--for an associate internal auditor position. My wife submitted her resume. She is a CPA, CIA (Certified Internal Auditor), and has 13 years of audit and finance experience with the Auditor General's office in Florida and two major banks. She has also been a licensed financial advisor and at one time had her life and health insurance license. The job was posted at $40,000 to $56,000 annual salary. She said in her application she would expect $42,000.

There was no response and no expression of interest. That was 40 days ago. The "job" is still posted. To me, using Glassdoor reflects poorly on Blue Cross and any other legitimate employer. Most candidates get wise to what Glassdoor really is and just ignore their constant emails. The openings offered are always the same. It is as if they were never filled or never existed.

This site doesn't do any good to employees and employers. They foster their disgruntled reviewers to attack co's managers and bosses including C-level management. And they come around to the companies to sell their services and whatnot. This is very unethical. For employees, the site keeps removing some reviews that they don't want to post. Facts, compensations, other data on companies don't really reflect, however leveraging that incorrect info, they try to create their sales. This is one of those dot com companies trying very hard to acquire a big user base to raise the value of the company.

GlassDoor doesn't follow its own written policies and allows disgruntled employees to write libelous reviews about their former companies. We have a former employee who lied on his time sheet claiming wages he didn't earn; no showed for work multiple days; stole parts; created bad morale and flagrantly lied about his employer and GlassDoor allows him to post 6 negative reviews within days of one another when its own policies provide only one review per poster per year is allowed... I would gladly join a class action suit against this shotty company for publishing blatantly false materials...

I tried to write a negative review about *real* experience at a *real company* and the review was negative without exaggeration. I think that GrassSore thought that I was making up what I wrote because they sent ma a form note saying that I would have to improve my review or they would not post it. That is a dishonest way of telling me to make a dishonest review about my honest explanation of what happened badly at a company where I had worked.

I use glassDoor's salary estimation some times. Females who are in my 'industry' say that their estimates are 30 to 50 thousand dollars less than mine, and MANY OF THE WOMEN are MORE QUALIFIED than I am.

Thanks, GD for perpetrating gender bias in wages for females. GlassDoor should rename how they treat women to GlassCeiling.

Tks for listening

I'm a marketing manager, trying to raise my company's profile, and am always professional, but someone at Glassdoor, if not everyone I've engaged with, acts like this is a joke. My own company profile which had been up for a month disappeared and they refused to restore it or look into why is disappeared. Not only did positive reviews disappear, new reviews are being blocked from being added (4 current employees). Perhaps they are just messing with me or their site just doesn't work. Either way, it's very frustrating dealing with them. My advice: SKIP GLASSDOOR - they are the joke!

Simply wanted to look at what employees had to say about Covenant House before I committed to uploading my information to glassdoor.com.

They relentlessly forced me over the river and through the woods; down the hall and into the sewer via the glassdoor-toilet; never allowing even a moment to see how others viewed this company first, unless and until I committed my data (and probably my first born) into their maw.

And you have a real nice day, too.

Signed up with them a few months ago when I was searching for a part time job to work on the side. Their searches often would produce the same results as many other job banks, but when you subscribe to updates by email, they're annoying and useless as all out. Every notification I would get from them was advertising jobs on other states which does nothing but clog up my email account with junk. Also, it seems there's a lot of redundancy involved when applying for jobs through this search bank. It's nothing more then a waste of valuable time for anyone who is serious about looking for work and wanting to find entry level employment into a career.

Glassdoor has an option to screen jobs based upon employment type such as full time, part time, contract, etc. When you select the "contract" type all you get back are jobs that have the word "contract" in the title. I have reported this problem twice over the past 3 months and all you get is a reply saying they are aware of the problem... and never fix it. How can one trust the other jobs being screened if this simple screen for "contract" does not work... and Glassdoor continues not to fix it.

They make very difficult for employees to post honest negative reviews. They will simply remove your review claiming that violates community guidelines without pointing out specific reasons or passages in your review that violate such guidelines.

Contacting help desk doesn't help much. They seem to barely understand English. You get a very strong feeling that messages from customer support are heavily scripted. I googled for the person specifically replying to my complaint and I could not find her on Linkedin. But from the name, I don't think the person is a English native speaker.

If you make any specific questions, staff simply won't answer. All you get is scripted gibberish. It's like trying to start a conversation with a voice activated toaster. They surely don't seem qualified to moderate reviews.

Beware as they are tricky: They will approve your review quickly and remove it a couple of days later without any warning to avoid having to engage in a discussion with the reviewer. I know of people that weren't even aware that their negative reviews had been removed.

I did have a couple of reviews published after submitting several times with minor re-wordings, but takes a large amount of patience.

I would say that if other people are having the same hard time publishing negative reviews on Glassdoor I'm having (and they seem to have, just google), people should probably take any negative review published very seriously.

Also, if you are careful analyzing reviews, you will find many one-liner reviews with 5 stars right after a negative review is posted. These look suspiciously fake. Their purpose seem to be pushing negative reviews to the back. It's worth to mention that the company rating do not take in consideration the number of times it was marked as "Helpful". It's simply the average of all reviews no matter if they have been marked as "Helpful" or not, so take company review rates with a pinch of salt and always read the reviews carefully, specially the negative ones.

This site USED to be good, useful and honest - until this year or so (2016). I'd been using this site to leave HONEST reviews for several years - no problems, all reviews (even if they were negative) were approved and posted for ages with NO problems whatsoever. Until just recently, when I logged in and noticed that EVERY SINGLE ONE of my NEGATIVE (but honest and approved for MANY YEARS) reviews for ALL companies were all suddenly removed for "not following guidelines". (?!)

This is TOTAL NONSENSE because they were ALL APPROVED and were up on the site for years -- and all of a sudden, they "don't follow guidelines"? This is a bull$#*! excuse. Translation: GLASSDOOR HAS SOLD OUT TO EMPLOYERS WHO HAVE EVERY NEGATIVE REVIEW REMOVED AND ONLY ALLOW THE POSITIVE ONES TO REMAIN (even the ones that are so sickeningly sweet, it's GLARINGLY OBVIOUS the company managers wrote them!). Which creates a very FAKE and ROSY picture of even the worst, most scamming, cheating and terrible companies out there. So how is this helping anyone exactly?!

And to top it off, they don't even NOTIFY you of the removal(s)... SHADY...

I'm done with Glassdoor and NO ONE should waste their time writing ANY honest reviews on this page, because they will just reject or accept it and then randomly secretly delete it a few days later if it's not glowingly positive and unauthentically $#*!-kissing to the company in question. SHAME ON YOU, GLASSDOOR! You USED to be reputable, but I CLEARLY see this is no longer the case. As of 2016 and onwards, GLASSDOOR IS NON-LEGIT. Don't believe everything you read, ESPECIALLY on those companies that have mounds of glowing reviews and little else.

I joined glassdoor recently and wrote a long review of a recent employer. When I clicked submit I received the following error message "There was an error processing your review. Please start again". The review thus disappeared. I have since tried several times (using different browsers), all to the same result. I checked the 'Help' section of the site but there was nothing there was helpful to me. I then found a contact email (which Glassdoor provided in their registration confirmation email to me) - but that email account does not exist.
All up I have wasted around 4 hours trying to use glassdoor for nothing. Utterly unhelpful.