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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
by 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 agoAnd the companies that recruit through Glassdoor absolutely love that.
- edw 7y agoTotally. 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 agoMy 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 agoThey set low salary expectations for job hunters while selling their recruitment services to companies.
- Zaheer 7y agoThe 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