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!

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      4·
      8 days 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.

  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    97·
    9 days ago

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

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    45·
    9 days 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.

    • LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

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

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      2·
      8 days 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

    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
      63·
      9 days 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.

  • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
    451·
    9 days ago

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

  • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioEnglish
    24·
    9 days 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·
          9 days 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·
            9 days 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”

  • frog_brawler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    59·
    8 days 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·
      8 days 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.

    • figaro@lemdro.idEnglish
      21·
      9 days ago

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

    • EnderMB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 days 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.

    • njordomir@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      8 days 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·
      8 days 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.

  • sevan@lemmy.caEnglish
    12·
    9 days ago

    To some degree you can get use Glassdoor with the help of the element zapper from ublock origin. What you can circumvent is pretty limited, but you can at least get a bit of information without jumping through all their hoops.

    What that said, I would not put a ton of trust in the reviews section. As people have mentioned, companies can get bad reviews removed, but also most happy employees aren’t taking the time to go submit a review. I use it more to see salary ranges for job titles, both generally and at specific companies. Even that is subject to how honest users are about their title and salary, but employees have much less access to that kind of info compared to employers, so I have to take what I can get.