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As a job seeker I would not just look at the general score - that's a very poor preparation for interviews. I would recommend reading the reviews and I'd start
by soco 3y ago
As a job seeker I would not just look at the general score - that's a very poor preparation for interviews. I would recommend reading the reviews and I'd start with the bad. Most of this will be obviously disgruntled nonsense but at some point you start getting real information as unhappy people have less reluctance to share.
- mytailorisrich 3y agoThe thing is that it's all the same package: Good scores and glowing reviews that have little to do with reality. I agree that it is useful to seek the bad reviews to check how their content compares with the good ones, but I think it's very difficult to get an accurate picture overall.
- eastbound 3y agoEven with the best intentions, no-one can make a good picture of anything in life, because there are so many different facets, even two team members can experience the same work as an opportunity for careers or a stressful experience with a boss expecting too much. The bad reviews show the failure modes of the company.
- krageon 3y agoIn my experience if you can find a topic most bad reviews talk about and all positive reviews avoid (or directly contradict), it is probably true. Whether you find this an issue is something you can then decide for yourself.
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- pmoriarty 3y ago"Most of this will be obviously disgruntled nonsense but at some point you start getting real information as unhappy people have less reluctance to share" I could find no way to tell the real from the fake. Anyone can write anything.
- Brian_K_White 3y agoDetecting fakes is the wrong question. You don't even try to tell if any particular individual reviews are real or fake. You just read a bunch, and see if they are random, or if there is a pattern where many have something in common. If 70% of the negative reviews say anything at all about aimless priorities and never being allowed to finish a job properly before being moved to the next thing, that company definitely has that specific kind of problem.
- soco 3y agoI read the reviews of my company (big, so many reviews) and I find them generally spot-on. Again, with obvious filters: if one gives 1/5 on everything it tells me to not take it very seriously. Same for 5/5 reviews.