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Gosh, do people rely on Glassdoor? To turn down an interview? From my experience it's an outlet for people with a personal gripe and far from a good source of i
by jasoncartwright 7y ago
Gosh, do people rely on Glassdoor? To turn down an interview? From my experience it's an outlet for people with a personal gripe and far from a good source of internal information about a company.
- hluska 7y agoYes, people do rely on Glassdoor. I am one of them. I only pay attention to the cons listed in positive reviews. Doing that has saved me from a couple of truly awful environments.
- jasoncartwright 7y ago> I only pay attention to the cons listed in positive review An interesting technique
- lozenge 7y agoI would only eliminate the bottom 25% of companies based on Glassdoor, but yes it is worthwhile. Take a look at theirs, it's probably the worst you've seen. If there is no way for them to reassure you you aren't signing up to a toxic work environment then why interview. I wish I had turned down the interview. Did an excessive take home for them and received no reply. Two months later they apologised and sent some feedback. They explained the relevant person was on holiday. (Considering the size of their office at the time they should have been using an applicant tracking system and have a plan for somebody going on holiday. They had many dozens of engineers at that point.) That was years ago though so no longer relevant, and I learned to push back on take homes. Edit: at the time Glassdoor was full of complaints interviewees were assigned to research a city and build a playbook on entering the market there. After the interview grilling they suspected there was not actually a role and they had been used for free labor. Not acceptable behaviour either.