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> So they sent out messages in the company chatroom, asking people to leave positive reviews. I don’t think this is necessarily wrong, provided there was nothi

> So they sent out messages in the company chatroom, asking people to leave positive reviews. I don’t think this is necessarily wrong, provided there was nothing forcing them to be positive or repercussions for not doing it (or for leaving a negative review). Most people review things only at the extremes (usually negative) unless they are prompted. That’s why Amazon sends people emails with questions or asking for a review. If a company asks their employees to leave positive reviews, and the employees generally like the place and are willing, that seems OK to me. I’ve lived in apartments that have done this and noticed when looking at reviews for others that they must have done the same.

JohnFen 3y ago
> If a company asks their employees to leave positive reviews, and the employees generally like the place and are willing, that seems OK to me. Yeah, it doesn't seem OK to me. The power differential is such that there's no way for a company to ask that of employees without the employees feeling like they have to make the review positive, or less negative than they otherwise might have. So I consider such reviews highly unreliable. That companies do this sort of thing is one of the reasons why I think reviews are pretty close to worthless.
- LeafItAlone 3y ago
  My last company sent out multiple “Please leave a positive review on Glassdoor” emails as we were trying to hire more. I never felt actually pressured to leave a review, positive or not, from those requests. I didn’t (and it would not have been a positive one, if I did at that particular point in my tenure) and there were no repercussions. There were a few negative reviews added at the time, but there’s no way of knowing if those were a response to the email or not. This was a large company, so maybe that matters to how people feel about it.

JohnFen 3y ago

> If a company asks their employees to leave positive reviews, and the employees generally like the place and are willing, that seems OK to me. Yeah, it doesn't seem OK to me. The power differential is such that there's no way for a company to ask that of employees without the employees feeling like they have to make the review positive, or less negative than they otherwise might have. So I consider such reviews highly unreliable. That companies do this sort of thing is one of the reasons why I think reviews are pretty close to worthless.

LeafItAlone 3y ago
My last company sent out multiple “Please leave a positive review on Glassdoor” emails as we were trying to hire more. I never felt actually pressured to leave a review, positive or not, from those requests. I didn’t (and it would not have been a positive one, if I did at that particular point in my tenure) and there were no repercussions. There were a few negative reviews added at the time, but there’s no way of knowing if those were a response to the email or not. This was a large company, so maybe that matters to how people feel about it.