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.

Well you've certainly gotten a new job by then, right?

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.

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.

Never heard of either one of these sites. What are they for?

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

What a coincidence, I worked there too. I still remember Jimmy quite fondly. Best CEO I ever worked for. He even attended my birth a decade later.

Exactly what I do

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.

I deleted my account when I discovered that bullshit. LinkedIn's new opt-out AI data gobbling has me this close to deleting that account too.

Edit: Fuck it, I just saw Ars' article with LinkedIn's response. Bye bye LinkedIn account.

They also have some fun policies like allowing employers to pay to moderate their reviews. So yeah, they're the Yelp of employer reviews these days

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

Your point about the small companies is valid, and it used to be better. When Glassdoor was at its peak, you could find smaller companies more frequently and I would read up on the companies I did business with to get an employee's perspective on whether they were functioning effectively. If your employees hate your guts or think their job is pointless, that's also a bit of a red flag for me as a consumer. This Glassdoor research worked well for renovation contractors, larger service providers like electrical or plumbing, commercial real estate management companies. Sometime you could also find info that made it easier to navigate call centers designed to frustrate you into giving up. It looks like someone posted a few alternatives and glass door stopped being useful for company research almost as dramatically as google became ineffective for other research. Someday soon, all we'll have is the company's marketing slop and any honest opinion will be buried and hidden into non-existance.

With regard to review manipulation, I knew a company with an abysmal rating, a real w2 farm. The people I knew spanned entry level to the c-suite. Said company would have bootlickers in HR and elsewhere post 5 star reviews to try to move the needle. They also asked people to rate them well after training had completed and everyone still had "new-job glasses" on. Despite their efforts, I think they were still sitting at a measly 2.7 stars, which is still way higher than the 1.5 they deserved. The 0.5 is mostly based on the bottomless supply of decent coffee in the break room :D

I don't have interactions with many people from this company anymore, but what I have heard is basically "different people; same shit".

Open platforms

Care to share any of those? That would be quite helpful.

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

Are you hiring? I've read good reviews

Is bugmenot still a good source for shared creds, or are companies getting savvy to it yet?