{"id":30464,"date":"2020-10-15T15:27:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T19:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=30464"},"modified":"2020-10-15T15:27:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T19:27:03","slug":"a-warning-about-glassdoor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/15\/a-warning-about-glassdoor\/","title":{"rendered":"A Warning About Glassdoor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/jobs\/comments\/jbod57\/a_warning_about_glassdoor\/\">his_rotundity_<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=24789865\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/jobs\/comments\/jbod57\/a_warning_about_glassdoor\/\">\n<p>I have a very close family member that works for Glassdoor. I spoke to this person and found out that a strategic repositioning, if you will, for Glassdoor is that they are trying to become a PR company of sorts, so they are focusing on brand management for companies. As a result, they are getting very aggressive with negative review-takedowns while allowing very obviously fraudulent positive reviews to remain the same.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=24790575\">shiftpgdn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=24790575\"><p>I worked at a mid sized company that was going through a very rough patch (right before the inevitable bankruptcy.) During this time I got a call from a Glassdoor rep who <em>explicitly<\/em> offered to remove bad reviews in exchange for us moving to a high paid tier and putting up X amount of job listings.<\/p>\n<p>Glassdoor is just corporate Yelp.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/Does-Yelp-remove-negative-reviews-in-exchange-for-advertising-with-them\">Quora<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>his_rotundity_ (via Hacker News): I have a very close family member that works for Glassdoor. I spoke to this person and found out that a strategic repositioning, if you will, for Glassdoor is that they are trying to become a PR company of sorts, so they are focusing on brand management for companies. As a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-10-15T19:27:07Z","apple_news_api_id":"6449a434-2c35-48a2-853d-06c3319eb8f7","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-10-15T19:27:08Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AZEmkNCw1SKKFPQbDMZ649w","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2003,937,96,1437],"class_list":["post-30464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-glassdoor","tag-hiring","tag-web","tag-yelp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30465,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30464\/revisions\/30465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}