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There are so many comments here complaining about Glassdoor's business model. I'm really genuinely curious -- what do you folks thing is a better option for th
by mushufasa 8y ago
There are so many comments here complaining about Glassdoor's business model.
I'm really genuinely curious -- what do you folks thing is a better option for them?
Given the constraints that they are a job review site, and they have to make the service free to the people leaving reviews (low barrier to entry), how do you propose they make money as a sustainable business?
- eutropia 8y agoIf you wanted to be the "honest" review site ideologically then you'd have to run it super cheap like craigslist and do something like have paid job postings, but it would have to be a small operation with a lot of automation.
- mratzloff 8y agoWhy does everything need to be a business? It's a review site. You could run it for next to nothing.
- mushufasa 8y agoUnfortunately I don't think that's the case. There's substantial work that goes on beyond server hosting costs, for which you would need human staff. I agree that VC-style astronomical expectations may be misplaced, but they need to have a team of talented people, which means steady income of some sort.
- adjkant 8y agoI think problems like this is why we need to consider opening up the idea of what is a "public utility" in the modern world. There are simply many things that are valuable to a large number of people that don't have good business models in a capitalist society. Honest workplace reviews sound like a great candidate for that.