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Depends. From what I've seen, they don't verify the user actually worked at the company in question. Or at least, it doesn't work too well, since I've seen peop
by CM30 8y ago
Depends. From what I've seen, they don't verify the user actually worked at the company in question. Or at least, it doesn't work too well, since I've seen people accidentally leaving their reviews on companies with similar names to their own rather than the actual one(there had never been someone with said name at the company in question, and they were from the other side of the world). I've also heard a few cases of ex employees each leaving multiple negative reviews under the same job title, and employers getting the site to remove reviews that made them look bad.
Some company pages probably have more accurate reviews than others though. Depends how hard the company fights to get negative ones taken down, or how many disgruntled users/non employees leave reviews on it.
So yeah, it depends.
- gaius 8y agoFrom what I've seen, they don't verify the user actually worked at the company in question How would they do that? The person may not still have access to their company email address, or even want that kind of email in their corporate inbox
- CM30 8y agoHmm, you're right. That is an issue, especially when there's bad blood between the employer and employee, and the latter doesn't want it on their CV or LinkedIn. But that also means everything from Glassdoor needs to be treated with a pinch of salt. A non employee can write lies, a competitor can write lies with fake accounts, a boss can make fake accounts for non existent employees, employees can be coerced by those in power... you can never really be sure of anything there.