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Pretty cutting reviews even for Glassdoor, esp. the one accusing him of writing the reviews himself (a point that wasn't addressed in the reply). As people say,
by dsgriffin 9y ago
Pretty cutting reviews even for Glassdoor, esp. the one accusing him of writing the reviews himself (a point that wasn't addressed in the reply). As people say, there's always two sides
- 59nadir 9y agoI know from experience that comments on GlassDoor usually tend to err on the side of caution because people are afraid that saying too much will reveal too much of them. I've seen it first hand, having worked at a company owned by a german game developer that was having some major issues. Not once did I see anything untrue or misleading on GlassDoor, but had probably 2-3 things I could add to their posts. In the meantime, you end up reading posts like these from people who would rather think that companies don't just suck. It's really annoying, because it's not as if you can reveal the whole situation to people just to prove that their "No, no, companies wouldn't just act like that / be so mismanaged".
- dsgriffin 9y ago> people who would rather think that companies don't just suck I think most people have worked at somewhere that sucked, but even some cases (e.g. Uber) can still make a lot of us step back and wonder how a workplace managed to become that toxic.
- 59nadir 9y agoUber strikes me as a particularly bad example of this, to be honest. It's a company that's built on ignoring and circumventing the law and growth at any cost. Them not respecting worker laws and basic decency doesn't surprise me in the least.
- new299 9y agoIt's also because glassdoor will remove/request you self moderate reviews that are overly negative.
- majani 9y agoSituations like these make me wonder about the Asian family-centric model of business. Many times it is touted as the way for minorities to get out of poverty, and here it seems to be the case because him and his wife are making out like bandits. However, it seems to be a terrible deal HR-wise where the founder's immediate community are favoured in hiring processes, leading to immense disgruntlement among the workers.
- unityByFreedom 9y agoNepotism seems fine to me for small businesses. Where is it touted for mature, global organizations? If anything, I believe it's frowned upon, alongside cronyism, despite the fact that it still happens. Of course one certain elected official is trying to make nepotism popular "again", as if it ever was. I can't think of a time when it was, aside from when kings and queens reigned, pre-democracy.
- slice_of_life 9y ago>Many times it is touted as the way for minorities to get out of poverty The reason it is a good approach is that; when you think about poverty, one may go round and round in circles trying to uncover a panacea but it all comes down to productivity. Are a group of people/is a person able to produce goods and services? This (ability) could be hampered by a lack of skills relevant to the current economic environment among other things. To acquire said skills among other inputs, one requires capital. If you consume capital goods, it won't be possible to save up enough to acquire the aforementioned production inputs. Systems like the Asian family-centric one you mentioned earlier allows for 1) creation of capital goods through production and 2) preservation of capital goods through savings and reinvestment over multiple generations. If there's capital for future generations in such a family, then acquisition of the relevant skills in an economic environment that's constantly mutating becomes plausible. It starts with a sense of frugality in a bid to amalgamate capital that can be compounded over generations in the future. Without capital generation and preservation (by the subjects themselves in order to cultivate discipline), you have nothing in terms of wealth creation and poverty alleviation.
- conradfr 9y agoHR people where I work usually write a generic good review after a bad one is posted. What gets me is that these are always displayed first by the default "popular" sort even though they have no votes.