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full list: https://www.glassdoor.com/Award/Best-Places-to-Work-LST_KQ0,19.htm https://www.glassdoor.com/Award/Best-Places-to-Work-LST_KQ0,... Methodology: http

full list: https://www.glassdoor.com/Award/Best-Places-to-Work-LST_KQ0,19.htm https://www.glassdoor.com/Award/Best-Places-to-Work-LST_KQ0,... Methodology: https://media.glassdoor.com/staticList/pdf/2019/Glassdoor-BestPlacestoWork-Methodology-US.pdf https://media.glassdoor.com/staticList/pdf/2019/Glassdoor-Be... Not sure how accurate glassdoor is since its plagued by the same issues as most review sites.

vowelless 7y ago
Thanks. Interesting to see that JUUL is at #31
yingw787 7y ago
Glassdoor is good for negative signaling, not so much positive signaling. It probably makes sense that larger, older companies will inevitably get bumped down in Glassdoor’s eyes, since it’s much harder to climb back up than to drop down, and the likelihood of dropping down increases over time. I would take Glassdoor with a grain of salt (unless you read the negative reviews and find specific constants across reviews). I would also strongly encourage devs to keep FAANG companies as a healthy benchmark for production software.
- bduerst 7y ago
  Precisely. I would argue that people are much less motivated to leave good reviews for employers than negative. If things are not going well, you're upset about your work, or you are looking for another job, then you are more likely to be on Glassdoor and/or more likely to leave a negative review. If things are going well at work, you're thinking about your work or something else in your life, not reviewing it on Glassdoor (unless incentivized somehow).
edw 7y ago
The data on Glassdoor is abysmal. I was looking up several engineering job titles in the local area (NYC) to compare them to the sorts of salaries we had needed to offer to land good candidates. The quoted numbers were consistently 60-70% of the actual salaries we had to offer four years ago.
- taurath 7y ago
  And the companies that recruit through Glassdoor absolutely love that.
  - edw 7y ago
    Totally. The business model seems similar to Yelp's: "You got yourself some negative reviews there. A lot of them seem totally bogus; we'd love to help you curate you presence here."
  - mrep 7y ago
    My secret theory is that glassdoor purposefully doesn't improve their website because they don't want everyone to know how poorly they pay compared to GAFAM. levels.fyi is so much more accurate and informative whereas glassdoor never seems to update their numbers nor add new features like career levels that it really makes me wonder what everyone does there especially as I think www.levels.fyi was written by 1 guy.
    - taurath 7y ago
      They set low salary expectations for job hunters while selling their recruitment services to companies.
- Zaheer 7y ago
  The issue is that Glassdoor doesn't factor in stock compensation very well. We're attempting to do better at: https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html?track=Software%20Engineer https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html?track=Software%20Engineer

vowelless 7y ago

Thanks. Interesting to see that JUUL is at #31

yingw787 7y ago

Glassdoor is good for negative signaling, not so much positive signaling. It probably makes sense that larger, older companies will inevitably get bumped down in Glassdoor’s eyes, since it’s much harder to climb back up than to drop down, and the likelihood of dropping down increases over time. I would take Glassdoor with a grain of salt (unless you read the negative reviews and find specific constants across reviews). I would also strongly encourage devs to keep FAANG companies as a healthy benchmark for production software.

bduerst 7y ago
Precisely. I would argue that people are much less motivated to leave good reviews for employers than negative. If things are not going well, you're upset about your work, or you are looking for another job, then you are more likely to be on Glassdoor and/or more likely to leave a negative review. If things are going well at work, you're thinking about your work or something else in your life, not reviewing it on Glassdoor (unless incentivized somehow).

edw 7y ago

The data on Glassdoor is abysmal. I was looking up several engineering job titles in the local area (NYC) to compare them to the sorts of salaries we had needed to offer to land good candidates. The quoted numbers were consistently 60-70% of the actual salaries we had to offer four years ago.

taurath 7y ago
And the companies that recruit through Glassdoor absolutely love that.
- edw 7y ago
  Totally. The business model seems similar to Yelp's: "You got yourself some negative reviews there. A lot of them seem totally bogus; we'd love to help you curate you presence here."
- mrep 7y ago
  My secret theory is that glassdoor purposefully doesn't improve their website because they don't want everyone to know how poorly they pay compared to GAFAM. levels.fyi is so much more accurate and informative whereas glassdoor never seems to update their numbers nor add new features like career levels that it really makes me wonder what everyone does there especially as I think www.levels.fyi was written by 1 guy.
  - taurath 7y ago
    They set low salary expectations for job hunters while selling their recruitment services to companies.
Zaheer 7y ago
The issue is that Glassdoor doesn't factor in stock compensation very well. We're attempting to do better at: https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html?track=Software%20Engineer https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html?track=Software%20Engineer