<i>Employer Review Site Glassdoor Deanonymized Users Without Consent</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39785815">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39785815</a> - March 2024 (18 comments)<p><i>Glassdoor added real names to supposedly anonymous profiles</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39777752">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39777752</a> - March 2024 (23 comments)<p><i>Glassdoor is now adding real names to user profiles without consent</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39769166">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39769166</a> - March 2024 (40 comments)<p><i>Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39761176">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39761176</a> - March 2024 (31 comments)<p><i>Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39705788">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39705788</a> - March 2024 (310 comments)
As a marketer who helped manage various companies' reputation online, I can tell you that Glassdoor is pay-to-play. If you pay them the subscription fee, and you get negative reviews, whether "true" or not, you can challenge most and get them removed. I thought most people would understand their business model explicitly relies on getting companies to pay a fee to own their page (and in turn they have to keep those customers happy by removing reviews they don't like) but I continue seeing recruits relying on this site as if it's some unbiased source of info.
When I logged in on mobile web Glassdoor forced me into a signup flow for something called Communities which included asking for my employment status. I was able to time a stop before the full page load and navigate to the account page.<p>If you log in first you can navigate directly to this URL without answering any questions: <a href="https://www.glassdoor.com/member/profile/accountSettings" rel="nofollow">https://www.glassdoor.com/member/profile/accountSettings</a> which will allow you to close your account.<p>You then need to request they delete your data which can be done at <a href="https://help.glassdoor.com/s/privacyrequest?language=en_US" rel="nofollow">https://help.glassdoor.com/s/privacyrequest?language=en_US</a>
Glassdoor is a completely flawed premise. Employers have almost complete compensation data and because we value anonymity more than ability to negotiate, our data is flawed. Employers might well directly know what you got paid at your previous company.<p>Many companies are able to purchase previous employment salary data, which I believe Equifax sells directly: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29834753">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29834753</a><p>Here is a great read about the tools companies have to suppress your wage for anyone who wants to be a little angry: <a href="https://www.pave.com/blog-posts/acquiring-option-impact-and-the-future-of-startup-compensation-data">https://www.pave.com/blog-posts/acquiring-option-impact-and-...</a><p>> At Pave, we spent the last two years building out a suite of 40+ integrations with HRIS, payroll, and equity management systems that connect directly with the source of truth for compensation data. We are thrilled to bring this technology to the Option Impact customer base and ensure that our combined customers will never have to fill out a manual survey again while gaining access to a persistent real-time network of compensation data.<p>[pdf] <a href="https://advisor.morganstanley.com/the-hamilton-retirement-planning-group/documents/field/h/ha/hamilton-retirement-planning-group/MSAW_Option_Impact_Overview.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://advisor.morganstanley.com/the-hamilton-retirement-pl...</a><p>> Option Impact is free to eligible and participating companies through our give-to-get model.<p>So if I understand correctly, almost all of our employers are providing our real time compensation data to an entity that then allows all other participant companies to graph and query.<p>I find it outrageous that my employer could tell my compensation data to other companies, while simultaneously we live in a culture of "we shouldn't talk about compensation."
That is really shitty behaviour, and bizarre. Glassdoor is only feasible if users can have trust that their feedback is anonymous. I really hope this has not harmed anyone, I'd imagine the lower rated companies are most likely to retaliate.
Aren’t all the Yelps, Glassdoors and Trustpilots of the world all accepting money from companies to take down bad reviews and/or promote good-looking content? To the point of that being the main business model? I remember there used to be a lot of those claims coming up a few years ago, from credible sources.<p>I don’t trust any review sites these days, especially star ratings. At most I’ll skim through and look for what appears to be authentic reviews with quirky writing, shitty photos and such. However, that’s going away soon too, thanks to AI.
Founder of small company. Of 16 reviews, only 1 is not fake. Really hard to believe they are mistakenly attached to my company. Many are negative, too.<p>Glassdoor seems like a complete scam to me.
Glassdoor also doesn't report actual income and wages in the field as a way to help lowball the brackets. I once saw it say a Senior Backend Developer was only worth 120K... I was shocked considering I know Amazon will pay you up to 250 with bonus.
Why would add your real name on such a website?<p>I couldn’t read the article when rejecting the cookies (or it took very long) so maybe the answer is in there…
Classic mistake. This is why you should never type your real name into a website that you don't wan<p>>One user, who goes by Monica, wrote in a post on her personal blog that Glassdoor added her name and the city where she lives to her Glassdoor profile following an email exchange with Glassdoor customer support, despite having never provided her name during the sign-up process some years earlier<p>Wait, what.<p>This is just grotesque and unethical. You do NOT go around fixing other people's profiles. You do NOT edit other people's posts. This is a huge breach of trust for any platform that handles user inputted information.
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