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To me the entire idea of Glassdoor is fundamentally flawed so there is a part of me that can't exactly blame for things like this going on. It has been shown t
by nerdjon 3y ago
To me the entire idea of Glassdoor is fundamentally flawed so there is a part of me that can't exactly blame for things like this going on.
It has been shown time and time again that most people won't go out of their way to leave a positive review for something and will only make the effort when they want to complain.
Mix this with something like a job where generally the only reason people will leave is likely due to something negative going on (while I don't have numbers to back this up, I would not think that most are leaving because they are simply not learning anything new and feel like they are done where they currently are. But maybe I am wrong about this assumption?).
So the people leaving would only have negative views that strongly skew the actual appearance of how a job may be.
I have left 3 Glassdoor reviews (once for an interview that was so bad I walked out) and all of them negative. But for 2 of them if I look back honestly I realize that much of what I was leaving for was not an issue for the entire company and was more specific to my team.
That doesn't mean that those negative reviews are not valuable, they are. But I don't think they really paint a good picture, I know I don't trust it if I am looking at a company knowing both what I mentioned and what is mentioned in this article.
- JohnFen 3y ago> I would not think that most are leaving because they are simply not learning anything new and feel like they are done where they currently are. This is why I've left 90% of the jobs I've left. In none of those cases was my leaving a reflection of anything bad about the company.