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[-] JoBo@feddit.uk 366 points 7 months ago

That's a fantastically efficient way to destroy their business. There's no way to get honest reviews of employers from employees who know their identities will be exposed whether they consent or not. Doesn't even matter if the review is after leaving that job, future employers can go nosing too.

Absolute techbro-brane gold.

[-] Sylver@lemmy.world 183 points 7 months ago

This is what happens right before the major money holders abandon ship. There’s no way they don’t know this is business-suicide. I bet they got a big payday from some companies that paid Glassdoor to shoot itself in the face!

[-] _sideffect@lemmy.world 52 points 7 months ago

Yep, we've seen this happen over and over before

[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 40 points 7 months ago

Imagine if a fediverse version of Glassdoor would appear after this

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[-] Igloojoe@lemm.ee 31 points 7 months ago

Good way to get yourself blackballed from the industry if you give a bad complaint from previous employer.

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[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 268 points 7 months ago

I just went in and manually edited my display name to my previous asshole of a boss. Two can play this game. If they want to get rid of anonymous content, then let them deal with poisoned content.

[-] _sideffect@lemmy.world 47 points 7 months ago

😂 Awesome

[-] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 43 points 7 months ago

Oh shit, that’s good.

[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 32 points 7 months ago

This is the way

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[-] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 227 points 7 months ago

Exactly how do Glassdoor expect people to give earnest reviews of their employers (which is literally the core of their business) if those people can't trust Glassdoor to not to throw them under the bus when they give honest reviews of malicious employers?

Talk about sabotaging your own business model - idiots.

[-] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 41 points 7 months ago

The anonymity was the whole point to that site.

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[-] purrtastic@lemmy.nz 209 points 7 months ago

Glassdoor "may update your Profile with information we obtain from third parties"

[-] GreatDong3000@lemm.ee 179 points 7 months ago

Imagine Reddit does this next lmao one day you open up and all your real life social media are linked to your u/Lick_My_Fuckhole profile, your coworkers see you as "people you may know" on their profiles. Neat

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 39 points 7 months ago

Didn't Google+ do that?

It's been so long since that debacle I honestly don't remember.

[-] Sylver@lemmy.world 71 points 7 months ago

YouTube did it when Google bought them and changed everyone’s unique username to their Google account (real) name

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[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 56 points 7 months ago

Oh wow, that’s dangerous.

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[-] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 149 points 7 months ago

This is one of the most obvious potential cases of purposeful sabatoge. They were probably bribed by other big businesses to destroy their reputation so people would stop using the site.

There's nothing businesses hate more than their workers having negotiating power, and wage transparency gives them more power than they had before. There's a reason why it's considered "rude" in the US to discuss wages with co-workers; I always make a point to discuss my wage with all of my co-workers, since it's illegal for businesses to prevent that discussion.

In most other countries, it's the norm to openly discuss your wages; unions are also more common in other countries. It's just standard toxic workplace cultures trying to prevent people from getting paid what they're worth, or god forbid, forming a union.

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[-] ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee 116 points 7 months ago

It seems as though nobody in this thread actually read the article. They are not revealing user names on the site. The objection here is having the real name as part of your private profile data, in case of a future data breach. It’s a real concern, but orders of magnitude less serious than what everybody is assuming.

Shame on Ars for the misleading clickbait headline.

[-] myliltoehurts@lemm.ee 51 points 7 months ago

Agree that it's misleading, but to add there is another significant concern given how glassdoor is already "pay to win" from the companies perspective: they could just offer identifying the users as a paid service.

It would be digging their own grave if that starts happening, but that doesn't seem to be stopping many companies..

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[-] nyan@lemmy.cafe 44 points 7 months ago

They are not revealing user names on the site.

You mean, "They are not currently revealing user names on the site." This may easily be the first temperature increment in a frog-boiling process.

(Cynical? Yes, but the world keeps reinforcing that attitude.)

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[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 88 points 7 months ago

This is just a plain fuckup that should have gotten entire VPs fired.

[-] Starkstruck@lemmy.world 71 points 7 months ago

Best we can do is more executive bonuses

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[-] BaroqBard@lemmy.world 86 points 7 months ago

Highly recommend at least trying to poison your data before deactivating/deleting; they have some legalese that gives them a workaround to keep things to an extent

Note: When you close your account, you will no longer have full access to salaries, reviews, or interviews. Any content you have shared will be removed from the display on the site, but we reserve the right to keep any information in a closed account in our archives that we deem necessary to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. For more information, review our Privacy & Cookie Policy.

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I wanted to leave a review a while back but when they asked for my name I figured with so many data breaches it was going to get revealed at some point, it's ridiculous they did it on purpose tho

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 44 points 7 months ago

I did the same thing twice.

Two different employers that really deserve to be absolutely thrashed but as soon as I got to the point where it was asking me my true identity I realized there was no hope it wouldn't come back to bite me in the long run.

I understand why in their business model they want to be able to verify employment. I'd even say it's reasonable. But the Privacy implications of it are just too tremendous and they I've never been practically or systemically trustworthy.

And knowing this about them means they aren't a reliable place to be warned off of a bad employer either. The primary purpose of their site is completely undermined by this bad policy.

[-] BrightHalo@lemmy.world 71 points 7 months ago

Thanks, deleted my account

[-] Kalkaline@leminal.space 43 points 7 months ago

Deleted my account and then made up a fictional worker with AI who works at Glassdoor in their Albuquerque location making $5mil/year as an intern and bitching about how the pay isn't great.

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[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 68 points 7 months ago

Everyone thinking this was a business blunder... People got paid a lot of money to kill this site. It served in its own small way, to give workers a bit of power in relation to employers and that was unacceptable.

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[-] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 7 months ago

What possible reason could Glassdoor have invented to convince themselves this is a good idea?

[-] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 36 points 7 months ago

Would you believe a social network?

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[-] Zacryon@feddit.de 59 points 7 months ago

Aaand there goes another service again, which I've never used and now will probably never even think about using.

[-] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 58 points 7 months ago

This kind of thing is what has always kept me from using Blind as well.

A site used to talk shit about your current employor that has a registration process that requires you to hand out your work email, and they pinky promise not to ever provide that to anyone?

No thanks, even if they would never do it on purpose, they are one good breach away from it getting out anyway.

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[-] Albatross2724@lemmy.world 54 points 7 months ago

PSA to use fake info for just about every site you ever sign up for. Never offer PII unless you absolutely have to like with the bank or IRS.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 36 points 7 months ago

I have about 5 or 6 aliases, full blown characters that live in my head, each with different names, addresses and backstories that I use. Even they lie about their personal circumstances sometimes. For example, on LinkedIn, John Longson works at Longson and Longson consulting, but he's the only employee, and he actually just works at a thrift store with a side hustle of selling second hand clothes on etsy under an alias.

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[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 53 points 7 months ago

Glass door used to be interesting, but this site is total trash now. You can’t do anything without creating an account and filling out a bunch of shit. That site is basically a dark pattern hall of fame.

They probably really crippled the long term growth of that company by making stupid short term greedy decisions that killed the user experience and scared people away.

[-] JonEFive@midwest.social 37 points 7 months ago

Just as venture capitalism demands.

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[-] arc@lemm.ee 53 points 7 months ago

Glassdoor is little more than a shakedown service like Yelp or Tripadvisor. It looks superficially useful but the real purpose is to suck information out of users to monetize, and extort businesses for $$$ for review "curation".

[-] UnaSolaEstrellaLibre@lemmy.world 43 points 7 months ago
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[-] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 43 points 7 months ago

Interesting.

I signed up for GD with a semi-throwaway email account - not an actual throwaway, but it’s not tied to my real identity, not used for anything but spammy sites where I didn’t want to give them my info. Every site got a made up name.
Wonder what name they’ll slap on the account when they try to farm “my” data from a broker.

[-] qdJzXuisAndVQb2@lemm.ee 47 points 7 months ago

I lie shamelessly to companies when signing up these days. They get fake DoBs, names, aliased emails, fake addresses, phones, the lot. Let them out that data on my profile without consent, hopefully they aren't going to expend resources to penetrate that veil.

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[-] UsernamesAreDifficult@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I mean that site has always been pretty shady and likely has had paid review removals for years, but wow, that is honestly a next-level fuckup.

[-] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 33 points 7 months ago

Are there any good alternatives to Glassdoor? The website and app were already hot UX garbage as it is so difficult to find salaries in other countries and figure out the currency without it bugging out frequently.

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[-] Computerchairgeneral@fedia.io 31 points 7 months ago

What a breathtakingly stupid decision. Can't wait to see how it pans out for them.

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 30 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

If i understand this right, glassdoor is for anonymous tips/rating of emploers/working conditions?

Would that work as a Lemmy community?

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 29 points 7 months ago

It had a lot of features, it could be its own thing on the Fediverse outside of Lemmy if enough people needed it.

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