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As an employee, I had a bad experience with Glassdoor. I got shafted by my employer who promised to start the green card process immediately on joining, manage

As an employee, I had a bad experience with Glassdoor. I got shafted by my employer who promised to start the green card process immediately on joining, managed (knowingly or not) to delay the start, and by the time it started, they prepared the petition so weak, that it was too late to complete the process before my 6yrs of h1b expired(because they had to redo the petition a few times). Now I explained this very clearly in my review and just mentioned that if you are an high skilled immigrant who has precarious requirements, then don’t join this company. In fact I added all the good things about the company, but always made a point to glorify the fact that they screwed me and left me jobless (because my authorization ended). What happened to that review? It never showed up in Glassdoor reviews for that company. And my account was suspended. I thought there was some “pay to remove negative review” option for employers. Now, that employer has more than 4.5 stars average reviews, and its glowing overall. If this is how Glassdoor works, I don’t think it is meant to help the past, current, prospective employees.

Judgmentality 9y ago
I've seen something similar with my company. I actually regularly check it, and will notice negative reviews almost always disappear within a couple days (positive reviews never disappear though). I emailed Glassdoor asking about their community guidelines and how to ensure I could leave a review that wouldn't be removed, and they responded with nothing of substance. As far as I'm concerned, Glassdoor makes their money by pandering to the companies who have a vested interest in hiding negative reviews and is an unreliable source of information.
- Udik 9y ago
  Same here, the company I used to work for had a lot of strongly negative reviews by disgruntled employees (in fact the turnover was pretty high). Magically most of them disappeared, while glowing positive ones have filled up the void (all written in the same upbeat language that is the trademark of HR-written job descriptions: "we work hard and play hard", etc.). Glassdoor claimed some of the reviews were removed because they violated this or that community standard. However, this wouldn't justify removing the numerical score, would it?
eberkund 9y ago
I have witnessed similar things happen. I worked at a company with a very hostile work environment where lots of people were unhappy for various reasons. I was subscribed to the company's Glassdoor page and I would get an email notification when a new review was posted. About half a dozen very negative reviews were posted but Glassdoor removed all of them, if I look at the company's page I see a 4+ star rating with just a couple reviews from the owners and people who were told to leave a review when they joined.
calvinbhai 9y ago
Wow, my response really blew up on this post. This thread is like a meta Glassdoor Review! Sad part of such behavior from Glassdoor, is that I cannot tell anyone anonymously that this particular company is a bad place for high skilled immigrants on h1b. I can only hope no one else makes the mistake I did in beleiving the hiring manager and recruiters without having anything in writing.

Judgmentality 9y ago

I've seen something similar with my company. I actually regularly check it, and will notice negative reviews almost always disappear within a couple days (positive reviews never disappear though). I emailed Glassdoor asking about their community guidelines and how to ensure I could leave a review that wouldn't be removed, and they responded with nothing of substance. As far as I'm concerned, Glassdoor makes their money by pandering to the companies who have a vested interest in hiding negative reviews and is an unreliable source of information.

Udik 9y ago
Same here, the company I used to work for had a lot of strongly negative reviews by disgruntled employees (in fact the turnover was pretty high). Magically most of them disappeared, while glowing positive ones have filled up the void (all written in the same upbeat language that is the trademark of HR-written job descriptions: "we work hard and play hard", etc.). Glassdoor claimed some of the reviews were removed because they violated this or that community standard. However, this wouldn't justify removing the numerical score, would it?

eberkund 9y ago

I have witnessed similar things happen. I worked at a company with a very hostile work environment where lots of people were unhappy for various reasons. I was subscribed to the company's Glassdoor page and I would get an email notification when a new review was posted. About half a dozen very negative reviews were posted but Glassdoor removed all of them, if I look at the company's page I see a 4+ star rating with just a couple reviews from the owners and people who were told to leave a review when they joined.

calvinbhai 9y ago

Wow, my response really blew up on this post. This thread is like a meta Glassdoor Review! Sad part of such behavior from Glassdoor, is that I cannot tell anyone anonymously that this particular company is a bad place for high skilled immigrants on h1b. I can only hope no one else makes the mistake I did in beleiving the hiring manager and recruiters without having anything in writing.