How much do you trust Glassdoor reviews?

[Anonymous]

I know of a place that I interviewed at and a friend works at that pads their reviews to be positive and balance out the negative (of which there are many). e.g. they tell their employees/recruiters to write positive reviews.

There's no reason that a place that has 200 employees should have 250 reviews unless something strange is going on.

All that to say, take it with a grain of salt. You can usually separate the whitewashed and the crazies from the actual employees with valid opinions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know of a place that I interviewed at and a friend works at that pads their reviews to be positive and balance out the negative (of which there are many). e.g. they tell their employees/recruiters to write positive reviews.

There's no reason that a place that has 200 employees should have 250 reviews unless something strange is going on.

All that to say, take it with a grain of salt. You can usually separate the whitewashed and the crazies from the actual employees with valid opinions.

I'll also mention that this place is shameless in marketing their "Great Place to Work" award from Glassdoor. It's on their Glassdoor page, their recruiting page, they've written press releases about it, etc. It's gross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reviews are also a function of expectation. If you want a decent middling job where you cruise along with the crowd for mediocre pay and benefits, most companies will get good reviews. If you expect more, you'll give worse reviews.

What would be an example of such companies?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reviews are also a function of expectation. If you want a decent middling job where you cruise along with the crowd for mediocre pay and benefits, most companies will get good reviews. If you expect more, you'll give worse reviews.

What would be an example of such companies?

most f500 firms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reviews are also a function of expectation. If you want a decent middling job where you cruise along with the crowd for mediocre pay and benefits, most companies will get good reviews. If you expect more, you'll give worse reviews.

What would be an example of such companies?

most f500 firms.

There are bad and good there. Take Apple and Google. Apple has tons of bad reviews.

[Anonymous]

Glassdoor has a pretty accurate view of my former consulting firm. It was okay in some groups, super shitty in others and overall, management sucked.

[Anonymous]

Glassdoor is spot on for imf.

[Anonymous]

the written reviews are on but the salary ranges slant low for us

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the written reviews are on but the salary ranges slant low for us

When I write my review I put lower salary and 20% of the bonus

[Anonymous]

Cull through them and read the ones that feel authentic (mix of good and bad). Ignore awful ones and overly glowing ones.

I worked for a CMO who asked everyone to paste fake positive reviews...that he wrote. It was an embarrassment. For every fake one posted, our people would post harsh real ones that literally said "The company is posting fake reviews".

I never review places but actually gave this one a review... I lasted 8 months in the job...for a reason...(I started looking again on day 1...)

[Anonymous]

Where there is smoke there is fire.

I would look for the grains of truth in both the good and bad reviews. Don't disregard it as BS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm happy in my job, but the bad Glassdoor comments about my employer are spot-on. I would say, don't let it be your only factor in deciding, but don't write it off, either.

+1 Mine too. I'm very happy at my employer and there are a fair number of negative reviews. I can see why people say However management has made changes to address some of the very valid issues. If there are a lot of reviews, I'd look for common themes throughout-- there is likely truth in them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:the written reviews are on but the salary ranges slant low for us

When I write my review I put lower salary and 20% of the bonus

Why would you do that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where there is smoke there is fire.

I would look for the grains of truth in both the good and bad reviews. Don't disregard it as BS.

+1!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:the written reviews are on but the salary ranges slant low for us

When I write my review I put lower salary and 20% of the bonus

Why? You are supporting management and capital by doing so