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Their policy on negative reviews seems pretty decent. https://help.glassdoor.com/article/I-m-an-employer-What-can-I-do-about-negative-reviews-on-Glassdoor/en_U

Their policy on negative reviews seems pretty decent. https://help.glassdoor.com/article/I-m-an-employer-What-can-I-do-about-negative-reviews-on-Glassdoor/en_US/Legal_FAQs https://help.glassdoor.com/article/I-m-an-employer-What-can-...

i_cant_speel 8y ago
Their Legal Action section sounds vaguely threatening. > Also, if we feel strongly that your lawsuit is primarily intended to chill free speech, we may take extra steps to let the world know what you are up to.
- FireBeyond 8y ago
  "may" is such a weasel word. If you're a cellular company, "may" means "will". "If you are in the higher tiers of data use, we may throttle your bandwidth". If you're Glassdoor who sells reputation management and HR services to the very employers being reviewed, "may" means "we're paying lip service to our critics".
  - smelendez 8y ago
    May throttle doesn't necessarily mean "will throttle." The company is giving itself the latitude not to throttle, or to not throttle exactly at the data cap. In other words, you can't rely on that throttling if you're, say, connecting to some cloud service that's charging you by the gigabyte to transfer data.
    - FireBeyond 8y ago
      No, it doesn't, canonically. But it equally can. Witness Verizon, throttling first responders in California wildfires. At 3.45am. Despite their verbiage about usage limits, above which "may be throttled depending on network capacity", it was obvious that after limit+1 bit, regardless of network capacity, you would be throttled, no ifs, buts or may(be)s.
freedomben 8y ago
I thought that too, except for this: > Ask Your Employees to Leave More of Them. We encourage you to ask your employees to leave honest reviews on Glassdoor. I personally see this as manipulating and watering down. It's not an ethical problem IMHO, but I'd rather hear from the people that were motivated enough by their love or hate to go out and leave a review. Also as an employee, I've had an employer ask me to leave an honest review, and there is no question in my mind what they really meant :-)
- ben509 8y ago
  I wonder how it would change things if there was a question on the review, "were you asked by your employer to leave a review?"
- strictnein 8y ago
  Previous employer (a large division of a very large software company) had signs up in our offices that actively encouraged reviews. The selling point was that it would help make it easier to get quality coworkers. Kind of made sense, but it was still shady.

i_cant_speel 8y ago

Their Legal Action section sounds vaguely threatening. > Also, if we feel strongly that your lawsuit is primarily intended to chill free speech, we may take extra steps to let the world know what you are up to.

FireBeyond 8y ago
"may" is such a weasel word. If you're a cellular company, "may" means "will". "If you are in the higher tiers of data use, we may throttle your bandwidth". If you're Glassdoor who sells reputation management and HR services to the very employers being reviewed, "may" means "we're paying lip service to our critics".
- smelendez 8y ago
  May throttle doesn't necessarily mean "will throttle." The company is giving itself the latitude not to throttle, or to not throttle exactly at the data cap. In other words, you can't rely on that throttling if you're, say, connecting to some cloud service that's charging you by the gigabyte to transfer data.
  - FireBeyond 8y ago
    No, it doesn't, canonically. But it equally can. Witness Verizon, throttling first responders in California wildfires. At 3.45am. Despite their verbiage about usage limits, above which "may be throttled depending on network capacity", it was obvious that after limit+1 bit, regardless of network capacity, you would be throttled, no ifs, buts or may(be)s.

freedomben 8y ago

I thought that too, except for this: > Ask Your Employees to Leave More of Them. We encourage you to ask your employees to leave honest reviews on Glassdoor. I personally see this as manipulating and watering down. It's not an ethical problem IMHO, but I'd rather hear from the people that were motivated enough by their love or hate to go out and leave a review. Also as an employee, I've had an employer ask me to leave an honest review, and there is no question in my mind what they really meant :-)

ben509 8y ago
I wonder how it would change things if there was a question on the review, "were you asked by your employer to leave a review?"
strictnein 8y ago
Previous employer (a large division of a very large software company) had signs up in our offices that actively encouraged reviews. The selling point was that it would help make it easier to get quality coworkers. Kind of made sense, but it was still shady.