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Is this ranking solely based on reviews from disgruntled employees? In that case I would take it no more seriously than Yelp.

• CHY872 4y ago
  My experience with Glassdoor is that there is a significant amount of non-disgruntled employees reporting. I think this is because if you want to look at their data, you have to put in some details about your own employer. Certainly most people are writing either milquetoast feedback that gets them through the door or moaning about their employer so the information is biased, but it's not quite Yelp. Either way, Apple has 154k employees, it's such a large company that it'd be surprising if in aggregate it was the best place to work.
  • _odey 4y ago
    > if you want to look at their data, you have to put in some details about your own employer You can bypass this by selecting a random company, Glassdoor even ;), typing in a random sequence with some spaces sprinkled in as your "review", and that's it. They will dismiss your review but that won't matter anyway; you got in, you can see all data, and you gave them nothing back (or did not dox yourself).
• kurthr 4y ago
  Exactly, it's not like the culture/pay/environment really changed. Apple's really quite an old school place to work (like you pay for lunch?!?). Also, it's so huge that there are radically different parts of it (even just retail vs hardware vs software vs ID). More an indictment of Glassdoor's methodology.
• elicash 4y ago
  Actually yelp is great? An obvious difference is you can see photos of food and decide for yourself how it looks -- so I'm not so much defending Glassdoor (which I don't use) as I am defending yelp. As far as yelp reviews, you can generally tell when the reviewer is unreasonable.
  • yazzku 4y ago
    Yelp reviews are pedestrian non-opinions that are basically reducible to either "zomg!" or "Food poisoning!!! Cannot recommend!! (because I mixed sushi with diet coke)". A million of those reviews isn't even worth two words from an actual expert on the topic.
    • elicash 4y ago
      In my particular neighborhood in DC, I’m not even sure ANY restaurants have been reviewed. And when I travel, your approach is certainly not a reliable way to get a sense of what’s near me.
      • ethbr0 4y ago
        Good way to get a sense of how used Yelp is anywhere: look up the local McDonald's. If it has 4+ and/or detailed reviews... probably don't trust Yelp there.
        • elicash 4y ago
          In an incognito window, I googled: mcdonalds yelp dc 1.5 stars, 2.5 stars, 1 star, 1.5 stars, 2 stars, 2 stars, 2 stars, etc... And this is maybe the most popular and beloved fast food restaurant in the world!
• Krasnol 4y ago
  It surely isn't. My company forced us to write reviews there and you can be sure they expected good ones. Worked out pretty well as far as I could see. Isn't the first time I've heard about companies doing that. Even if they'd rely solely on reviews from disgruntled employees, the amount of those would also say something meaningful.
  • carlivar 4y ago
    So it is like Yelp: only capturing the extremes on either end, with the "middle meh" not represented proportionally.