former Glassdoor employee here. I see lot of people complaining about their reviews being removed from Glassdoor (GD) site and the occasional allegation that G

former Glassdoor employee here. I see lot of people complaining about their reviews being removed from Glassdoor (GD) site and the occasional allegation that GD take money to remove negative reviews. AFAIK glassdoor doesn't take money from any company to remove negative reviews. I left GD a year ago so things could've changed since then but I doubt it. People complain because their reviews were removed but have you read it objectively ? Do you single out a particular person because that's against GD rules. I know a former coworker of mine (@GD) who left a 1 star review. His review was promptly removed from GD page because he was bashing his manager. For a small company like GD it's easy to figure out who that manager is based on the employer title. After removing his review, he was given an opportunity to edit it but he refused to edit it. I wrote an OK review for GD after I left and it's still up there on GD site. As for fake reviews it's hard to remove them automatically. A good number of people uses those temporary email addresses to leave a review (10min emails) so you can't really compare the email addresses. I guess they could compare the IP addresses and remove duplicate submissions from the same IP ? But sometimes multiple users share same IP (correct me if I'm wrong) so that would result in more confusion and allegations. When I joined GD any engineer could access the reviews table on production/admin page but they have tightened it up since then. only selected engineers have access to production table and they started implementing granular controls on the admin page. I remember seeing fake reviews on my previous employer's page but I chose not to flag them. My former employer's CEO himself left more than three 5 star reviews to bump up his ratings. Nowadays I use GD for job search, reviews, interviews and benefits research. Salary data is very unreliable especially for engineers in the Bay Area. I know they keep talking about archiving old salary data or making adjustments but I don't know if they ever implemented it. The thing about reviews is that you have to read it between the lines. If it's a 5 star review and the only con says something like the commute sucks there's a good chance that it's a fake review. About Salary: they did release a Know Your Worth tool sometime in 2016 which is pretty accurate in my case (Bay Area + Sr. Software Engineer). Ironically I know a few people who left GD because of this tool :)