Wait, What? Glassdoor Now Shares Your Name With Employers??
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2024
- Wait, What? Glassdoor Now Shares Your Name With Employers? Recent changes to Glassdoor's policy seem to make it less anonymous. Will job seekers still use Glassdoor as a salary, job review, and research tool?
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Stunned Glassdoor Users Report Their Full Names Shared On Reviews
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Bye bye GlassDoor ✌️
Nope, just create fake accounts. This way you make this violation of GDPR not affect you.
@@ForgottenKnight1 Yep, fake account with fake name and some made up company.
Yep. Deleted my account. No regrets.
If Fishbowl bought Glassdoor, wouldn’t this be a good way to kill it? Watching accounts dwindle until their staff is no longer needed? 😮
@@Ang7.8 The money comes from the companies - as you can see companies drive the decisions of Glassdoor, not its users
I hate Glass Door because to even read other people's reviews, they want you to review your last employer.
I hate it because I try to give a thorough and concise review and they refuse to post it, meanwhile there's a sea of one line or three-word reviews that don't tell anyone shit.
I’ve never posted on Glassdoor, and now I never will. I think this new policy will sink them. They’ll become irrelevant because nobody will look at their reviews. The real shame is that a measure possibly intended to prevent burying lousy reviews is going to prevent people from posting honest reviews.
I want to rip my job to shreds but can’t.
Once Glassdoor required an account to even read reviews about companies, you knew what was up.
Not a good move for Glassdoor...
Probably not good in the long-term as folks learn, but I'm sure they get paid nicely by employers so in the short-term it's probably great for them.
Apparently they're trying to become some kind of social network now. I hope people boycott them. We just need to start boycotting these crappy businesses.
Somebody in higher management from Glassdoor got a big fat check to do this.
@@ForgottenKnight1 the banks are usually the ones that push M&A, because they get commissions on the deals
@@Liz-wz8dhhow very antisemitic of you
I'm really starting to hate the internet.
It's definitely not living up to its damn promise, is it? Companies ruin things.
It has always been awful. Read Surveillance Valley. It’s not without its charms but it’s not meant to help us.
I've hated the internet since 2017. I saw what I believe to be the glorydays of online. And now we're in the days of Big Brother. I absolutely hate the internet.
The internet is a tool. Sadly it is prey to being used as a tool of evil or harm as well. An opportunist will always try to take advantage. The difference is that our government has stopped enforcing law and order in this country. Outside attacks on our infrastructure and IT, technology and social media or buying or looking for work. A growing internet of bad is not good for us.
Turns out there's a term out there for this feeling now: it's called enshitification
Glassdoor was useful, stopped me applying for a bad company. Shame its being ruined
Only to realize there are no good companies afterall
I NEVER thought they were anonymous! Corporate and anonymous do not go hand in hand- EVER!!
Yeah I ALWAYS FELT that there was a way for the company to find out who left the review! 🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️😡
So when I have left reviews ~ I ALWAYS wait for
6 mos - 1 year to go by (to ensure they wouldn’t KNOW it WAS ME complaining! PLUS ~ if I quit/terminated from the company I would be upset so that’s DEFINITELY NOT the TIME to air your dirty laundry so to speak?!! 🗣️.
I always tried to be tactful, honest while painting a clear review of the negative aspects of the job vs the very few positive things that I encountered.
Agree. At my previous job we had an anonymous feedback questionnaire every 6 months. Sure enough, about a month after it, our HR would call our personal phones to ask you answered this and that to the questions, and she would actually quote you exactly.
And besides that, before the review, our boss always take sure to tell us, that he is friends with HR and he would know who wrote what.
So before leaving the company, I wrote exactly all of it in my review, that we had right before I left. Oh the wheels started turning very quickly, they asked the boss to leave. They have an amazing new leader now (there is a special place in my heart for her, she grew me from a scared lost child into a firm professional), I am so happy for that branch. Even though we are competitors after I left for another company, we have great relationships and I am still quite fond of the company in many ways. They still treat their employees better than my current company does. Which is just a meat grinder. Though pays well.
lol do our “anonymous” survey 😈
Glassdoor has not been reliable for quite some time. Many have thought that employers incentivize employees to give fake positive reviews for a company.
My former employer legitimately forced us to write positive reviews for them. We had to provide proof lol
@@jimmytwotime6875 Sounds like one of my old employers -- she wrote wrote fake letters using the letterhead and signatures from the resumes and cover letters she had on file from when we first applied. I found out she was doing it when the Tampa Business Journal called me to discuss the beautiful heartwarming letter I had supposedly written to nominate her as businesswoman of the year.
*Incentivize
@@ENIGMVTIK Thanks.
@@jimmytwotime6875 If you have to leave that company, go back afterwards and edit the review. ;)
I just went to Glassdoor to check, and there is a pop up demanding identification. I can't even get to the log in.
I logged in then submitted a delete account request.
I don't need Glassdoor.
Yeah, screw _that._
Spring cleaning baby!
As if Glassdoor wasn’t already anti-employee enough as it was.
Now if you log in, you have to disclose whether you are employed, unemployed, or a student. You must enter additional details regardless which category you choose. They will not let you see your profile or use their website without providing with this information. After that you MUST enter your full name!
"Your full name is used for identity verification and we never share your name without your permission."
This is disgusting! Bye bye GlassDoor!
Yeah, it's so restricted these last few months that it was basically useless anyway.
I used a fake name. It didn't reject it.
“We would never share your name without permission”.
*permission granted by ambiguously-worded legal jargon 15 pages into the user agreement we never showed you
They make money with job postings, so I have no reason why I would trust them with that info.
@@sor3999 And now they want the companies and their jobs to sound better to help to drive their business. Disgusting!
Corporations, and indeed governments, seem to have an undue focus on avoiding retribution instead of treating people fairly and transparently. People won't leave bad reviews (or do worse) if they're well-treated by these powerful organizations.
Yep, it's like the average citizen don't really have power in America.
I think it's at a point where some of the people genuinely don't even know how to treat people fairly, and so they go with avoiding retribution because that's all they know how to do.
It's not necessarily because they're stupid mind you; while treating people fairly isn't particularly difficult, it does empower and embolden them. You'd think that'd be a good thing, but being in charge of bold and powerful people requires leadership skills, something the world today is desperately lacking.
You have to experience living in a civil society and treating all people equally to know how to property work with others. If your'e foundation is to step on those you climb over in life you will never be right. Yet you can be prosperous sadly.
I know for a fact that Glassdoor gives the option to companies to remove bad reviews for a fee. No joke.
Really?
Rofl so you can literally pay to win.
@@chm9935of course... the profit in telling the truth is selling edits.
I always knew this would happen, which is why I submit reviews using with fake info and a vpn
Precisely!
Get well soon Bryan!
Thanks, I'm slowly starting to feel human again.
Tree pollen? It's been horrible in my area this year _sniff sniff_
You did great nonetheless! 🎉 I do hope you feel better very soon! As usual an informative and valuable read. Thanks again!
It's true. Mine is retaliating against me so I am in the process of seeking legal advice. I left on good terms even though I could tell they were quiet firing me after the pandemic. My review was my honest experience but they are making me pay. I am fighting back.
So you're saying you left a GD review, and GD told your company that it was you, so now they are retaliating against you?
@@KP99 maybe they had a hunch it was left by someone and they tracked it back.
Legally if they know is you, they can do it. The same as if someone defamates you
@@Sp7ce it's not that simple. It would depend on the post
Glassdoor is proving to be same as it's name literally!
See through!
And "Fishbowl" even more so!
I just deleted my account. Thanks for letting me know. I will not be using them again.
Are there any good alternatives for employee reviews of companies?
Remember you cannot spell "Glass Door" without "ass doo"
I never have reviewed on Glassdoor. You just know that HR is always looking at it and is quickly able to deduce who left a review. Not worth it.
why would you care about HR of a company you no longer work with knowing about you?
They've never identified me but I'll get a reply from HR that's usually "We're sorry you aren't happy working here. Call someone from HR so we can resolve it (by getting you fired in a way that doesn't look like retaliation)."
@@eXWoLL I think this is more about employees who are still working for the company.
@@eXWoLLthe US is increasingly a monopoly economy. One review on an employer may affect you at all the "sister" companies under that massive umbrella.
@@eXWoLL Because what happens at one job can, and sometimes will follow you to the next. Jobs frequently contact your previous employer. You have to be really young or have little job experience to not know that.
I'd never left a review of an employer but I deleted my GlassDoor account anyway. If users cannot leave anonymous reviews then there's no real value to the service.
Even if they don't deliberately disclose your identity through things like resale of user info, there's always the possibility that some company will sue for defamation against a bunch of "John Doe" defendants and compel GD to reveal those identities through legal discovery. And also the possibility of disclosure through a data breach by hackers.
Hoping you feel better soon.
1. Hope you get well soon.
2. My last job used to tell everyone to go leave a positive glassdoor review every town hall meeting and went as far as putting the QR code for doing so on screen.
They did this despite us not being allowed to have our phones on site.
did you ever check to see if anyone followed their instructions, or did people pull a "cat ignoring it's owner who's telling it to get off the table.
The first rule of the Internet is that nothing is truly anonymous.
I wouldn't be surprised if employers forced Glassdoor to out people who posted and removed posts, such as salary information, in the intrest of mainting their leverage. Empolyers hold all the power in the job search/hiring/employment process and it is their goal to undermine the job hunter/employee's power as much as possible. It is the same reason they fight so hard against unions.
It is an opportunity for a new GlassDoor!
This also opens the door for Glassdoor to sell their membership list to marketing companies.
I thought about leaving a VERY honest review on Glassdoor. Something told me to wait, write it out correctly and accurately, think about it, don't say anything in the heat of the moment. I ended up not leaving a review at all. My procrastination saved me, and having my real name tied to the account had a lot to do with that. Data breaches/bugs happen all the time. Companies have been caught being dishonest about how much data they share.
This is why you need an alias
I was asked by a former employer to go there and give a positive review. I told them I wasn't comfortable doing so, and so I didn't end up doing so.
Should have told them you don't work for free😂
Stay off Glassdoor! That is total BS! They will lose people using their site because of this! I hope you feel better soon! Thanks for sharing this!
This is not good for the employee
The moral of the story: trust corporations at your peril. And I say that as an Objectivist.
My real name is Heywood Jablome, and I have no problem giving that name to Glassdoor! 🤣
hi jablome 😂
Nice, my name is Ben Dover. At least for Glassdoor it is
Rule 1 of the internet: You're never truly anonymous.
Yes , I worked in a s/w company for 4yrs. Left the company and left a negative review of bad experience with them. Few days later someone from the company sent me an email. Luckily I did this using a throw away email ID.
Did you deny leaving the review? I would have.
@@censoredeveryday3320 never replied back.
@@censoredeveryday3320I wouldn't. Don't care. The company I left a bad review for is actually a sinking ship surviving on blackrock money
Always have a "throwaway" email for stuff like this - don't even attach your real name or anything to it. :)
@@censoredeveryday3320 He doesn't need to respond to any of their email. In fact OP, you can delete that email and continue happy with your life. Nothing they can do against you.
if they want people to remain safe, they need to keep those names anonymous. users shouldnt have to worrya bout getting stalked, doxxed, fired, sued, so stupid.
More like Assdoor. Am I right? 😂
I was never convinced it was anywhere near as anonymous as they claimed -- which is why I used a fake name and disposable Yahoo email when I signed up back in the day and, when they began insisting I review my current employer in order to read other reviews, I just made one up. Every now and then paranoia is 100% justified. 😅
This just sounds like a data collecrion site. They no longer are the site they were built to be and coild cost people their jobs or reputation if they review a previous job.
Ironically, if a company has too many 5 star reviews I know it's fake and a huge red flag. It should be around 3 to maybe 4 max if it's honest.
The amount of info they tried to gather just to log in and check something simple is astounding. I just logged out and won't be back to glassdoor.
Absolutely corrupted their data. Rip glassdoor
I'm building a new Glassdoor with 2 other pro developers that I promise will not require an account.
You are a Godsend. Amazing business opportunity they just created for others!
That may be the solution. We need to stop feeding the beast.
I'm sure some way somehow this will be linked to white supremacy and domestic terrorism.
Hell YES!!! Go for it......I want to see it!! This is a huge gap in the market as people highly value their user data being kept confidential on such sites. :D
Yet. Wait until you want to make money to cover costs.
I’m sorry you’re not feeling well, Brian! You did a great job in spite of being ill, due to your intention to help us and your rich subject matter expertise.
This is potentially huge, and will change the way I interact with the platform. Thank you for sharing, and feel better.
Thanks for letting us know. Signed in and had to add info to get to the part where I could deactivate my account. What a horrible business practice! Hope you're feeling better soon!
Glassdoor was jenky to begin with. It would not surprise me they are selling data to make more money not only to companies seeking employees.
I always suspected they would share personal data of their users with companies, which is why I always left company reviews in a separate, alternate account not related to my personal one to avoid this kind of nonsense. The reviews were pretty honest, and many of the red flags pointed out by employees, former employees, and interview candidates were spot on, as I noticed those same red flags during interviews and at companies where I got hired.
Anyways, I am glad that I never linked any reviews or data related to my personal account because I never fully trusted the platform to side with corporations.
This is just going to intensify distrust between employer and employees. Get well soon!
I cant even get through to my Glassdoor account as they have the information wall you have to put information in about your job or a previous just to use it. I hope they go under, Glassdoor is terrible.
Glassdoor will also reject posts even though they are well and accurately written with no profanity or verbal abuse or the common sense things that would normally get a review rejected, if you know what I mean. It's like if whoever moderates those doesn't like how you worded something, they just reject the whole thing and don't tell you specifically why. At least tell me what the problem is with it. I've only written two in my lifetime so it's not a common occurrence anyway.
I've submitted two scathing reviews for large employers and they were accepted. They seem to have a broken and random AI review approver in their pipeline that is flawed.
They rejected my review twice for a large mnc that wasted my time for 6 months and sent a generic rejection and declined to respond to emails after multiple rounds of interviews.
I had to call out Glassdoor editorial team in the same review before it was finally accepted. It was a scathing review as well but rightfully done.
Deleting my account before your video ended. Thank you, Bryan!!!
I just deleted my account and it says my data "will be archived for some time for legal record-keeping purposes."
Whaaaat
they are going to sell your data,,,, or a big brother.three letter agency has forced them to hold information for review
Sounds like lawsuits are in the future for GlassDoor. I'd imagine the government and GDPR officers would be after them too for the breach of privacy laws.
Oooh and I know of some people who've left rather rotten (but honestly, in my opinion, well-deserved and justified) reviews. So sounds like Glassdoor acquired Fishbowl, but using Fishbowl's policies. Now say, I know my bridge to a former employer is very well burned, well screw it, I'd still leave a negative (and honest) review. I've never had a Glassdoor account, but I have visited it at times. We're in times where there's no longer such thing as privacy, period, and I don't like it.
When it comes to any of these websites or apps i never use my real name or email.
damn straight.. good bye Glassdoor.. get well, Bryan!
Not much reason to put a Glassdoor review up considering the following.
1. they only allow each individual to submit only one review, per employer, per year, per review type (e.g. company review, interview review, salary review, benefits review, etc.
2. They have a type of ats system they will remove reviews if its detailed, long or has any form of strong opinions even if you provide Glassdoor via their ticket system with emails of you invites to interviews and rejection letters.
3. reviews can be mass reported in order to force it to be removed. This can be abused with software.
4. Reviews drop off after a period of time. its isn't permanent.
5. pay for a contractor and pay for an employee at the same company aren't the same and its never specified.
6. this use an ats to auto reject certain reviews.
Also HR knows people look up glassdoor reviews so they can get bad reviews removed and push internally for employees to add positive reviews to get their average up, especially around the time glassdoor puts up its "Best Places to Work For" list. You can tell when astroturfing is happening when all the positive reviews read like they were copy/pasted from the site's company values page and don't say anything about what it's like to work there.
Is that how my review disappeared?
@@cpK054L Companies can also get Glassdoor to delete negative reviews.
Nothing is anonymous on the internet. The most fun will start when quantum computing gets developed and it could skim through mountains of data
I worked for a gov IC a few years back and learned about compartmentalization. Keep your personal and real info related activities on a safe clean computer. Put all the Glassdoor reviews on another computer that is 100% anonymous VPN (best way to do this is using a virtual machine with a restrictive firewall to only allow the VPN). Don't use ANY real info when leaving reviews for anything. I have followed this strategy for years and haven't had any issues.
Thats not at all what quantum computing does
I just checked my old reviews, and they are still listed as Anonymous.
I think it’s that big companies can pay for access maybe?
They surely can’t dox people publicly
feel better brother, and great video! Hope you get well soon. Your channel is incredibly helpful since day 1 :)
Guess people won't be using it anymore. 😂
I just removed my account. I hadn't found it to be particularly useful anyway, and I'm also deleting the throwaway email account I used for them. It's a shame the Internet's not as useful as it was 20 years ago.
I always wondered whether it was really that way. Companies don’t like negative publicity and corporations rule America
Thanks for the heads up. And thanks for nothing to glassdoor.
Thank you so much for being an advocate for workers, informing preparing, and armoring us. Thank you so much!
I knew something was up when they required you to sign up before you provide a review.
Thanks for the Glassdoor update. Sorry to hear you haven't been feeling well. Sending you lots of positive healing energy.
Deleting my Glassdoor account…. Too many people and companies making everyone kowtow to their wishes or else they’ll scream and yell!
Horrible people and businesses need go go away!
LOL wait...so there's actually people out there that don't use fake names and throw away e-mails when posting those reviews?
Glassdoor is making pressure putting "police state tactics", sold-out to defend corporations under criticism from any kind of labor abuse or wrongdoings. Employees should not allow this assault on civil liberties, as freedom of speech. Companies dealing with corruption, misrespect on employees or other hard affairs don't take well bad reporting, but is necessary.
Thanks Bryan for speaking out and get well soon.
We really need some kind of patent, or trademark, or copyright protection for our personal information. That way we could sue companies into oblivion because, ultimately that's the only way this sort of thing can be prevented, or brought under our control.
Ya, that's what all the European laws like GDPR are all about. The US doesn't care about employees, otherwise we would have similar laws by now. California is one of the few progressive exceptions.
The US desperately needs federal data privacy laws.
"We really need some kind of patent, or trademark, or copyright protection for our personal information" - it's already there: GDPR. It exists for years now. Too bad the US refused to implement it.
😮 thanks for the warning!
Reddit is a better place to leave deserving, brutally honest reviews, both negative as well as positive.
I hope you feel better soon
Thank you for the info. I already deactivated my account just in case
Glassdoor used to have the "Know your worth" analysis but seems like it is either got removed or hidden after COVID, so I now go with salary website and look at the salary trend as well as next level title. Luckily I have access to my company's salary range across various paygrade up to executives so I can leverage that to compare against external information as well as look at comparatio. I used my "network/online" name when signing up website accounts.
How’d you get that?
@@user-rc8zv9em4s Get what?
Good thoughts for your speedy recovery
Thank you kindly
A while ago I had written a critical review about my ex-employer. The review was published on 5-th page in the list of reviews about that company. There was no visible reason for that. Not by ratings, not by posting time, or any other metric I could think of. Just randomly away from the top results right away. And yes, there were job ads by that company right next to the list.
Hope you feel better soon! Thanks for all of the advice.
The employer fake reviews are a real problem. I worked for an absolutely awful startup; every time someone leaves a negative review of it, the employer posts 5 or 6 good reviews in succession. It's so obvious, but Glassdoor doesn't do anything about it.
ya im done, your right they cant come back after you for severance, but they could use the information for a slap suit if you found your company sucked and said so. once you document your name even if they don't pst there are a ton of legal ways to get at it or hackers even - hard pass
I canceled my account when I heard about this. Never left a review though.
No way. I just left a review on there yesterday😂😢
Get well soon! Thank you for your videos.
Haven't used it in years - now that will become a permanent status.
RIP Glassdoor
Account deleted. Thanks for the heads up! 👍
Thankfully I shouldn’t need it anymore anyway. Just started a new job.
Thanks for all your advice, btw… it really helped with the job search! I’ve recommended you to several other people recently too.
Before Glassdoor post anything about other companies they should worry about their reputation as a racist and discriminatory business, they are not transparent in their hiring process as they just conduct interviews for the sake of hiring their favorite ethnicities.
Once I have complained they started harassing me by calling their lawyer.
Take care. I hope you feel better soon. ❤
I knew it from the get-go. That's why according to GD, I work as a High-Net-Worth janitor in a non-descript company somewhere in Norway.
Hey, Lockheed tried that with me on the severance package they offered during the lockdowns. I told them where they could insert that. I lost a lot of money, but God provided me with other opportunities. I'm so happy to hear companies can't do that to people anymore.
Get better soon, Bryan. Use something like Neilmed Nasal Rinse to clean your nose. Get checked for allergies. Insurance will cover the allergy testing.
It looks like Glassdoor will no longer be a good resource and this move will sink Glassdoor. Leave open to the market for a competitor that will keep you anonymous.
Time for a new Glassdoor huh?
Feel better fast and thanks for the update
… I literally just after years finally put my information in… Great
I hope you feel better
They started by refusing to publish critical reviews of companies a few years ago, then moved to make it some kind of weird social network in the past year. Didn’t think they’d stray this far. Deleted my account.
Now I’m never using Glassdoor ever! Thanks for the video!
Oh no really!🤦🏾♀️