It also asks me to use the app.

I was trying to look up the company where I was thinking of applying, but it said I needed to sign in to view the review, so I entered some fake information. Once I was signed in I went back to the page thinking I could read the review, but now I need to write a review before I get access to Glassdoor!

  • frog_brawler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    59·
    2 months ago

    I remember back in 2017, talking to the director of marketing at the company I was at at the time, and she was telling me about how she spent all day getting bad reviews removed from Glassdoor. I didn’t use it much before that, but I haven’t visited the site once since then.

    • Wogi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      2 months ago

      Years ago I left a shitty call center job and left a scathing review on glassdoor. About a year later I started getting hammered with requests for clarification or to remove the review entirely. I ignored them all, and never bothered to look back. It’s still up, but the company I worked for sold itself to some other shitty overlord that also had terrible employer reviews.

  • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioEnglish
    24·
    2 months ago

    Yeah. I jumped through these hoops too and it created a company page for my company, with one employee, me, just so I could read someone else’s review on a different company.

    Of course, now there’s a company page for my company that I don’t appear to be able to delete.

        • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          True, the employee(s) here need to be across every aspect of the business, including cleaning the toilet and talking to CEOs and CIOs, not to mention do the accounts, chase debtors and write code whilst maintaining a sense of humour and getting enough sleep.

          • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            9·
            2 months ago

            True, the employee(s) here need to be across every aspect of the business, including cleaning the toilet and talking to CEOs and CIOs, not to mention do the accounts, chase debtors and write code whilst maintaining a sense of humour and getting enough sleep.

            AKA “Rockstars” working in a “fast paced environment”

  • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
    451·
    2 months ago

    And don’t forget that you only get a pass for 12 months. After that, you must submit another review to continue browsing. 😂

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      This isn’t new for Glassdoor though. Not saying it’s not shitty, just that it’s been like this for like nearly a decade.

    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
      63·
      2 months ago

      Don’t use the app, it’s spyware Browser and fake alias on desktop.

      Salary data is what you want and it’s generally a bit delayed plus glassdoor is a corpo whore.

  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    97·
    2 months ago

    Deleted my profiles and submitted California delete data request some months ago when they made reviews traceable. No one should use Glassdoor anymore

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      When it was focused on the users it was an amazing platform. I remember after every job I’d go and fill out a review, I’d add salaries, everything. Then they destroyed all of that trust, started nagging me to participate , and I had to use my account to browse things (remember when you could just search for the company without logging in and look them up?)

      Like all modern corporations they got greedy and destroyed the platform for short term profits, while completely ignoring the long term

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    45·
    2 months ago

    Yeah, they jumped the shark with that shit a while ago.

    Note that it will also have an effect on the quality of reviews. Glassdoor is only worried about number of accounts at this point. It’s unfortunate, since sharing this kind of information is constitutionally protected, but it isn’t necessarily profitable.

    • LustyArgonian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      The government needs to make a social media platform for citizens to air grievances in a protected manner. An online civil forum.

  • erenkoylu@lemmy.mlEnglish
    331·
    2 months ago

    does glassdoor have any value now that blind and levels.fyi exist?

    • EnderMB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      They do for smaller companies. In one of my old employers (around 200 people) Blind wouldn’t recognise my work email as being from an actual company.

      Sadly, those are also the sort of companies that’ll scrub bad reviews.

    • figaro@lemdro.idEnglish
      21·
      2 months ago

      What are they? I’d love it if people actually embraced using a different platform. Glassdoor makes no sense anymore

    • njordomir@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Thanks, levels looks really useful. This will help me fill some of the gap that was left after glass door enshittified and started data mining everyone’s real names and attaching them to their profile as well as pushing their “fishbowl” thing.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I’m happy to see they’ve started adding labels to their (or, I guess MANGA’s) bizarre “level” system(s). I’ve never been referred to by those terms at any job I’ve had.