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Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
- BrendaCampbell 3y ago[dead]
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- blowsand 3y agoTook some digging but here’s the data delete request form that should cover all the HR Tech sites including Indeed: https://requests.hrtechprivacy.com/create https://requests.hrtechprivacy.com/create Be sure to select “show more sites” in the sites selection. And for Glassdoor, bottom of this page: https://help.glassdoor.com/s/privacyrequest?language=en_US https://help.glassdoor.com/s/privacyrequest?language=en_US
- darknavi 3y agoGlassdoor is so gross sometimes with its requirements. Levels.fyi has been really nice.
- samstave 3y agoThe problem Ive always had with levels, is that it seems much more focused on the "sales" groups - the non tech, but vital to business everything. I've always disliked sales. especially when working on projects where a sales is so smarmy, because they get a huge pay - and I, implementing it all - get nothing. This happened all over. but here is a story of why I cant stand sales: I was tech designer for LDAC (lucas presidio campus) So I built out the RFP for network and we were doing selections up at Big Rock Ranch (the only reason this is important is just how beautiful the space is, so it feels really open nice energy, relaxing) We are doing vendor selection presentations (the vendors come show us why their solution is best match to RFP reqs) The vendors were Cisco, Foundry, Force-10 (extreme backed out) Cisco comes in and they're going through their presentation and we are getting through it - I am reviewing and seeing that it was rather weak, more "marketing"-ish reply to the RFP instead of a detailed response on the specs... I am sitting across from the main cisco sales guy. (this is at the time the largest 10G network in the world as this is just as the 10G switches were made) - so at the time, its a big deal - like ~$80 million in core gear) The sales guy is leaning back as if... don't worry Toots. Jimmy's got this sniffs coke" https://i.imgur.com/gPdQiW5.jpg https://i.imgur.com/gPdQiW5.jpg -- So I am going over the RFP with his team, and he interjects: "I just want to assure you that Cisco has a world class media team - and I will personally be sure they go through this in depth and really create the right solution" PIN DROPs (I am the youngest in the room - but its my RFP/design) "Excuse me. This is the RFP review. Youre presenting your solution here today. So are you to tell me, that you have a "world class media team" and they have not informed your response to this RFP? That the entire point of this meeting" i said a few more things that made this guy die inside. This guys balls shot into his throat. Those are the types of people I think of when I think of levels. (this was also the meeting where the CIO of Lucas Arts demanding a date for "when can you provide me power over fiber" ((his logic was the design was for both power and fiber to desktop - and he was trying to flex on showing 'how can we reduce infra wiring costs' -- it was a truly different world back then, mostly))
- mlrtime 3y agoI used to think similar to you, as an engineer I didn't see value in sales. Then I tried to sell something myself and I realized it is not easy. You hear no all day long it starts to get to you. The best sales people I've seen are relationship builders. They understand their clients needs (Even if outside the core market) and try to find a solution for their needs. This looks like wining/dining on the outside but it's important. I would suggestion anyone that wants to build something to try and sell first. Then you'll realize why they get paid and can be very valuable.
- samstave 3y ago(sorry that was from an old lens... I was pointing out my perception of LEVELS not sales. (thus I said "vital to all business")
- fredley 3y agoAren't Glassdoor's reviews pretty much a scam anyway? Last I heard companies can pay $$ to gain moderation control over their own profile to delete/downrank bad reviews.
- spacebacon 3y agoAll reviews are scammed. Phone a friend.
- djbusby 3y agoRemember when Yelp did that? And yet, somehow not dead.
- paxys 3y agoYelp isn't dead but no one I know uses it anymore, specifically due to all the issues with reviews.
- emchammer 3y agoYelp rating, photos and reviews come before the street address when you click on a place in Apple Maps. I have to scroll down to get the street address, somebody decided that is less important.
- healsdata 3y agoBing gives Yelp similar priority for queries like "tacos near me", so all the Bing-serving alternative search engines like DuckDuckGo do the same thing.
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- wly_cdgr 3y agoThat's absolutely batshit insane if true. How do they not understand that no one will use their site if they can't do it anonymously?!
- rincebrain 3y agoFirst, you get to the point that management thinks enough people won't leave no matter what they do. Second, you find some sketchy thing to do that will boost revenue and burn people's desire to use your product willingly into the ground. Third, you leave on your golden parachute and the company acts surprised that this proved toxic and changes nothing.
- p1esk 3y agoSadly this is becoming more common everywhere. Companies (and individual people) just don’t care about long term prospects. This includes SWE industry: if people switch companies every two years on average, why care about things like tech debt?
- blowski 3y agoI definitely want to hear this from Glassdoor. I just can't imagine why Glassdoor would put a user's name alongside a review against the wish of the user in question. So I'll give Glassdoor a chance to clarify what's happening before getting my pitchfork.
- romanows 3y agoIt sounds like they aren't doing that, from what the glassdoor rep wrote. It sounds like the author is concerned that, in the event of a data leak, that their name can now be associated with their reviews, instead of just their email address.
- htrp 3y agoAlso more importantly, in a future product update: If you pay for the Extra Premium Data Insights Package (TM), Glassdoor will happily give your real name to your employer so they can either see the reviews you've written about past employers or the review you wrote about your current employer. While this isn't a real product (yet), you can't tell me there is a non zero risk on this one.
- romanows 3y agoYep, although if we're worried about an adversarial Glassdoor, then the OP screwed up their opsec by sending their real name in the first place. Even for regular Glassdoor, it's in their email logs which might get leaked alongside anything else, anyway. Still should have the right to easily delete info, though, I'm not trying to blame the OP for being angry about that.
- JojoFatsani 3y agoIt will be pretty hilarious if we see 500 positive reviews exposed as being from Terry from HR on Glassdoor. Maybe it will help legitimize it a little.
- MattGaiser 3y agoSite is close to unusable anyway. I have gotten emails from them about potentially interesting jobs, and then could never figure out how to actually view the job postings. Instead I’m sent through their review workflow to get access.
- zug_zug 3y agoIf anybody doesn't think this is a problem, I overheard managers talking about a 3rd-party tool that finds "at risk employees" which they didn't define but said it included signals such as "they updated their linked in recently" as a signal that they may be on the job hunt. You better believe that data brokers are both interested in buying and selling any sort of information around your employment/job/interview behaviors.
- shon 3y agoWe built this tool as part of HiringSolved. Other signals included time in current position relative to industry average and personal history.
- sli 3y agoI will never understand how people can willingly build tools like this that almost exclusively serve to make employment miserable.
- 8b16380d 3y agoThe family needs to eat and as an American with no social or economic safety net, my morals play a very small role.
- mistrial9 3y agothe industry in Silicon Valley and elsewhere is filled, packed with people who have no children
- dyingkneepad 3y agoLet me give you a hint how: it involves a money transaction.
- joseda-hg 3y agoThere's a strong component of "If I don't someone else will", but also, usually this is the kind of thing that sucks at getting general open/free solutions, because no one does it willingly, yet it's easy for an employer to justify paying for (And economically incentivize it's development)
- shsachdev 3y agoThat’s super slimy of them — a while back I had spent some time investigating fake reviews on their platform [1] and also found that their moderation team has no strict processes in place to deal with bad actors. [1]: https://www.careerfair.io/company-reviews https://www.careerfair.io/company-reviews
- p1esk 3y agoYou might be confused: to them, people like you and the OP are bad actors. What you mean by “bad actors” are their paying customers.
- thrtythreeforty 3y agoAll this "my final determination" and "your other surprise account" nonsense could be rectified pretty quickly with a GDPR banhammer. I am increasingly of the opinion that personal info of any kind should be legally radioactive, and very high-risk for companies to hold onto or collect.
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y agoI agree. I am the author of a [very mild] social media app, that Serves an extremely tinfoil demographic. The #1 posture is that if we don't actually need the information for the application to run, we don't take it. I won't go into detail about how we do what we do, but we don't keep any data, other than the email the user chooses to send us (which can be a DEA or proxied one). We also never export that email outside the server. No marketing aggregations, no trend analysis, etc. The email stays inside the deployed server. This stance has not made me popular with my coworkers, but it has made our app quite popular with end-users.
- digitalsushi 3y agostances and postures sound like policies that are not written
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y agoNah, it’s written. It’s an iOS app, and Apple requires a well-written policy. Also, I have gotten used to doing things this way. I’ve been writing software for this particular demographic, for over 20 years.
- sterlind 3y agoI'm incredibly curious about what this demographic is.
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y ago
- Runways 3y agoDisgusting. Thought about creating an account several times to see more salary information, but now I guess I never will.
- digging 3y agoWell, I've understood Glassdoor to be useless for years due to supposedly allowing companies to control the existence of negative reviews, and I've never had an account. However, this is pretty disturbing and deserves to be more widely known if Glassdoor is actually now hostile to employees who might review former employers.
- 1attice 3y agoDone. Thank you for the headsup
- bilekas 3y agoSurely this would discourage anyone posting legitimate reviews of their workplace but quite honestly, Glassdoor seems to only be for companies themselves to have a "badge" and not the potential employees. I don't think it would be missed if it were to disappear tomorrow.
- JCM9 3y agoGlassdoor seems very has-been at this point. They’re trying to move beyond the mix of folks trashing their employers and then charging employers to make the profile look better to now trying to be more of a serious career site. The ship has sailed on that front and they just seem on a slow march to irrelevance as has happened to lots of other similar career and employer review sites.
- ipqk 3y agoI just logged in for the first time in years to delete my account, and before letting me do anything they required me to add my full name and other employment info.
- bangaroo 3y agoi did the same and was so, so infuriated by that.
- havefunbesafe 3y agoThis is very very illegal, depending on jurisdiction.
- zachmu 3y agoSame. Thought I must not have been signed in and was getting pushed into a signup flow or something, so I cleared cookies and got the same behavior once I logged in. Forcing you to give them your real name before allowing you to use the site when logged in is incredibly scummy behavior I hope they are punished richly for.
- binarymax 3y agoWas it possible to use a fake name?
- f0xd13 3y agoI used the name “Nah Thanks” and selected that I was unemployed to pass on giving any legitimate information.
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- jcoletti 3y agoThis is pretty shocking. I never use Glassdoor anyway, so deleted my account after reading. Worth noting that going to Settings only shows a button that says "Deactivate account", which seems misleading. Following this process does show a modal at the end that says "Account Deleted Confirmation. You have successfully deleted your account.", so seems like this is actually deletion vs. deactivation. (Your data stays in an archive DB for some period of time for legal reasons.)
- petsfed 3y agoalso worth noting that if you attempt to go in via the mobile page, specifically to delete an account that predates "fish bowl" and mandatory names, you'll be bombarded with cascading popups that require your compliance (no x to exit, just "next" and filling in the relevant forms). Based on this story, I already knew to expect resistance, but jesus fuck that was far worse than I imagined.
- not_your_vase 3y agoCareful: Those are just words, written by someone who thought that the difference between them is insignificant. (Maybe it was insignificant when it was actually written.) Without having concrete confirmation, all you have is just some optimistic assumption.
- Ecstatify 3y agoAt the bottom there's a Data Request Form. You have the option "Delete my personal data" https://help.glassdoor.com/s/privacyrequest?language=en_US https://help.glassdoor.com/s/privacyrequest?language=en_US
- hammock 3y ago>they had updated my profile to add my real name and location, the name pulled from the email From line I didn't think to cloak because who does that? How did they get that if you never sent them an email? And if you sent them an email, you gave them your name (whatever name is in the from line)
- danudey 3y ago> Recently I contacted Glassdoor for an account-related issue. This led to them sending me email that I had to respond to. Big mistake. So he put in a support request, likely via his account; they sent him an e-mail about it, likely to his Glassdoor account's e-mail. He replied from that e-mail address with his full name in the From: field, as most people do, and now they could link his full name with his e-mail address, and update his profile.
- dudul 3y agoTell me you don't understand what makes your own website mildly attractive to employees without telling Mr. Glassdoor has been mostly useless for quite some time now anyway. HR departments offer little trinkets to employees who leave a good review to boost their score, negative reviews can be taken down. Minimal value all around basically.
- moepstar 3y agoGerman site kununu may also be forced to disclose clear names of previously anonymous reviews [0] So, what's left besides word of mouth? [0] https://www.golem.de/news/urteil-kununu-muss-im-streitfall-klarnamen-nennen-2402-182309.html https://www.golem.de/news/urteil-kununu-muss-im-streitfall-k... (sorry, article in german)
- jjtheblunt 3y ago> your Glassdoor account null pointer exception
- gxs 3y agoSeriously, I’ve browsed some of those sites in the past and the info is always bad info. Or at the very least, it’s not possible to discern the good info from the bad info on those sites. I’ve never understood what compels people to go to those sites, I suspect it’s because people feel that it at least gives them a voice. The only site with a modicum of value is LinkedIn, and even then you can probably come up with a million reasons to not use it.
- harryquach 3y agoThis got a lol from me, well done
- tr3ntg 3y agoDecided to visit the website to delete my account. Lo and behold, the "Deactivate Account" button kicks off a perpetual loop that asks you to "Sign In Again To Delete Account" then dumps you on the same profile setting page, which prompts you again to log in... so you can't really delete your account, at least on web, without the help of support. Edit: figured it out, is confusing 1. Remove social connection if this is how you logged in 2. Log Out 3. Upon login, request a password reset 4. Reset and login 5. Request Deletion 6. Enter newly created password
- jcoletti 3y agoStrange, do you have any browser security extensions, aggressive cookie-blocking, or something similar? I was able to complete the process (see my comment below). I'm using Brave with ad blockers. The "deactivate" language is pretty misleading, but after entering account credentials, it did seem to delete the account completely.
- barbazoo 3y agoIt worked for me normally just now
- drdirk 3y agoI have the same experience right now.
- xvector 3y agoSue the fuck out of them. Hope this company crashes and burns.
- 12_throw_away 3y agoI keep thinking about this response from a glassdoor employee, and what it implies about their decision making processes: I stand behind the decision that your name has to be placed on your profile and it cannot be reverted or nullified/anonymized from the platform. I am sorry that we disagree on this issue. [...] This is my final determination. I, as well as multiple members of my team, have reviewed your request several times, and I am considering this matter closed.
- blibble 3y agothis is why the GDPR right of erasure exists fuck these companies
- fmajid 3y agoAlso California’s CCPA/CPRA.
- turquoisevar 3y agoAlso Virginia’s VCDPA.
- barrysteve 3y agoThere is no recourse except not to play. The end user has no choice. Sounds like a dictatorship.
- topikk 3y agoSounds like a platform that will wither away and die. Glassdoor users are emboldened by anonymity and know exactly what happens to people who put that kind of information on Facebook or LinkedIn next to their real name.
- ranyume 3y agoThe recourse is taking down the business with a bot hive?
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- malloci 3y agoTend to use blind for the inside scoop these days anyway
- minimaxir 3y agoBlind is 10% inside scoop, 90% shitposting.
- gxs 3y agoYou should request your data from a company like axciom. You can ask them to delete it while you’re at it. They already know more about you than you’d ever want them to know. The fact that they hadn’t automatically matched your name before was either incompetence or simply being blocked by some frayed little law somewhere. A little off topic, but his is a classic example of the problem where the laws just haven’t kept up with the technology. Data collection and public government databases weren’t a problem when you had to go into some big office building somewhere to make a request, or maybe wait a couple weeks to sort it out through the mail. Today, however, it’s easier than ever to gather this data at scales people can’t even imagine and this level of aggregation has eroded privacy to a degree that I don’t think is reversible anymore. Anyway, here is a link to axcioms portal, although the cynic in me thinks that by requesting your data be deleted, all you’re doing is confirming your identity. https://privacyportal.onetrust.com/webform/342ca6ac-4177-4827-b61e-19070296cbd3/7229a09c-578f-4ac6-a987-e0428a7b877e https://privacyportal.onetrust.com/webform/342ca6ac-4177-482...
- sambull 3y agowe need strong laws on data brokers. to protect our privacy from foreign and domestic actors.
- ecshafer 3y agoI think Glassdoor has the issue in that its not a growth business, but needs to be. You can't have a website like Glassdoor that is VC funded, owned by PE or publicly traded and not have it go to shit. The organic usage is people looking for new jobs, or posting about jobs they hate, or companies responding. A website that has <20 employees and is fine with being a $10M a year business living off of ad revenue could absolutely do this and be successful. A business seeking to double revenue can't.
- tadfisher 3y agoThis is the essential problem with any platform whose value consists of user-generated content. For example, Reddit doesn't have to hold an IPO to continue being Reddit, they don't have to paywall their API, and they don't have to make their website a global dark pattern to force engagement; they chose to sell stakes and play the growth game. Medium is another example, as is Quora, LinkedIn, and a hundred other tech companies that are essentially specialized takes on PhpBB forums.
- rurp 3y agoYep, it's so disappointing how many web projects provide solid value for many people, have a reasonable business model, but go to absolute shit and eventually fade to nothing chasing unsustainable returns. It's staggering how much better the web could be if the demand for exponential returns hadn't become so dominant on the business side.
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- duxup 3y agoIt does sometimes feel like we're missing out on these "reasonable company with reasonable expectations" type businesses and funding and crashing a ton of companies that would otherwise maybe live on reasonably?
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- ipaddr 3y agoLove the change. Now I can signup with employee name I dislike like a powerful manager and get them out.
- XCSme 3y agoGlassdoor is one of the worst and first examples of "annoying paywalls" that I remember. (they don't require payment, but your login and personal info)
- coolThingsFirst 3y agoAll US tech companies ever, they are out there to doing the right thing until money rolls in then profits take the priority over quality and they go down the shitter. 1) Evernote 2) Triplebyte 3) Glassdoor 4) Let's not forget Quora
- StressedDev 3y agoAre you sure it’s just profits? People need money to support themselves. Companies hire people and have to pay them because they can’t work for free. This means companies need revenue. Now, with traditional companies, customers paid for products and services. This revenue allowed companies to pay employees. With the companies you listened, they gave away their product “for free”. That meant they had to get revenue some other way. Usually, this either involved ads, spying (so ads could be better targeted), pay for advanced features (Evernote), or sell services to some third party (Yelp and Glassdoor are two examples of this). The problem with all of these new business models is companies often struggle to get enough revenue to survive. What is no called ‘enshitification” is basically companies searchimng for a way to survive when their users will not directly pay for the service they are offering. Is this good for users? No, but then again the users refuse to pay for the service. My main point here is greed is not the only thing driving this process. In many cases, it is incentives and organizations trying to survive. If we want products which delight us, we are probably going to have to pay for them. If we want the cheapest thing possible, we are going to have to accept that it will get progressively worse as companies try to survive or keep their earning growing. Note that the above earnings growth is probably a short term phenomenon. My guess is that companies who push earnings over quality eventually destroy their product and get a bad product and lower earnings. This process can take years or decades.
- coolThingsFirst 3y agoThis is just absurd, how much revenue does Facebook need to "survive"? I'd expect from society in 2024, platforms like Facebook, Quora, GlassDoor to not only exist but to work well in an established way. It's just greed, pure and simple. Nothing works, and everything is "shittified". For example, I was really excited about Triplebyte. I thought finally we may have a tool to separate the wheat from the chaff and hoped it would make it's way even to Europe but then it got shittified with dark patterns. The moment something becomes cool for a few months, it's already a cow to be milked endlessly and sold off to the highest bidder who will do the same and once it's gone they'll find someone to throw under the bus and move on to the next thing. And that's not even counting personal information which they consistently misuse or sell. I am terrified to use majority of services online with personal name/surname and recently my very unique(identifies just me) name:surname combo got hijacked and was used in a fake review site. I just don't trust any company when they say "your private notes" are private. Yes, they are, if they earn trillions and become like apple. But the moment money is tighter they change the tune. For example take a site like bumble. The frontend is junior level programming even HS. The backend is a simple DB. It can't cost billions of euros to run that.
- seadan83 3y agoWow, big dark UX pattern when trying to sign in now. I'm quite positive that I never linked my glassdoor account to google. Yet, Glassdoor was ambiguously saying on login "use your google account to login for your @gmail address!". To which google asked "are you sure you want to share info with glassdoor." There was no way to enter my old password, I was forced to now link my account with google which force shared my email & name. I was really nervous about even enabling this linking... I bit the bullet, happily it looks like it is somewhat easy to delete reviews and finally the account. Getting there though, was forced to divulge new information. I don't think I could have a lower opinion of glassdoor now..
- sonicanatidae 3y agoThe enshittification of the world continues apace.
- StressedDev 3y agoI think you are fundamentally wrong. The world is getting better all of the time. Look at life 10 years ago, 30 years ago, 100 years ago, 200, years ago, etc. Life expectancy is up, people are richer, people are healthier, we have an amazing number of choices, we have amazing devices, etc. I think your view is very distorted and you really should check your facts. Here are some questions you should ask yourself: 1) What do you mean when you say “enshitification”? How is the world getting worse? By what measure? 2) Are there any counter examples which could disprove your thesis? 3) How does the world today compare to the world at other times? Why is the world better today? What was better before? Finally, you should consider individual things instead of the world. For example, you can look at your town, housing, food, culture, etc. Try going beyond good and bad and look at the benefits and drawbacks of various things. Consider whether you need a more nuanced view of the world.
- sonicanatidae 3y agook, I'll bite: 1) What do you mean when you say “enshitification”? How is the world getting worse? By what measure? More violence, more bigotry, paying more and getting less not because things cost more but because stock price, minimum wage not tracking inflation while political donations do, Donald-Fucking-Trump as POTUS, cyber attacks at a truly breathtaking pace, healthcare and the entire fucking tragedy that is in the US, women's rights, body autonomy, a stock market where market makers can legally and literally steal money from everyone else, CU literally legalizing outright bribes to congress, the rise of US Nazis, the entire fucking state of Texas, judges who ignore any and all legal standing and common sense that enact the stupidest most regressive horse shit, corporations dumping chemicals into the environment by the metric ton and "suffering" profits for it, and much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much more. How about you step outside sometime and look at the world you're in? 2) Are there any counter examples which could disprove your thesis? There are counters, but they are generally outliers in practically every instance. The simple fact they are outliers is the entire point I'm making. 3) How does the world today compare to the world at other times? Tech could have been a great thing, but it's being used to abuse people at a greater scale, now, so win? 3a) Why is the world better today? I would say something like better medical care and that care does exist, but only for the rich since most people cannot afford it. Why? Human greed. 3b) What was better before? Very little. At no point did I say I pined for the 1860s. You're confusing me with Republicans. I'm just tired of the human model of "shit on everyone I can, because fuck you, I'm getting mine". I'm fucking tired of people committing crimes for decades, and when caught saying, "I'm sorry". I'm tired of watching a country kill another countries CIVILIANS because they can. Look at the world's choices. A 15th carrier group or feeding kids in school? Tax breaks for those that need them the least, while those with less money pay more or the reverse? Food Stamps and the ever forward marching of less and less being spent on this very real need. Social Security. A system you're forced to pay into, while congress plays fucking Lucy from the Peanuts with the benefits. Even going so far as to label them as "entitlements" in the shittiest possible definition of the word instead of entitlements, because its fucking owed. How about the constant lies and horse shit propagated by media? Not truth, not facts, just bias with the sole goal of selling ad space and consequences be damned. Maybe I just wanted more of humans than the current "fuck those in need" or "shit on minorities to make ourselves feel better", etc. I'm truly glad you find the world a better place than I do. YMMV and I sincerely hope it does, but let's put down the PollyAnna-tinted glasses. That's not the world humans built and pretending it is, is simply disingenuous or wholly ignorant.
- claytongulick 3y agoI had an employee on my team at a company I worked for once who used the CFO's real name to post a review trashing the company. The real name policy had the opposite of the intended effect.
- nerdjon 3y agoI have not logged into Glassdoor in a long time, I tried to log in after seeing this. I get a prompt that I cannot dismiss about "Communities at Glassdoor" that I can't get past without putting in my employment information and name... I can't even get too my account to delete it or emails support. Love dark patterns...
- irobeth 3y agoI just lied about both things it wanted and it was fine with that, so it seems a little silly to make it a requirement
- ppetty 3y agoDone, account deleted, and thank you for the heads up. Genuinely, thankful for that post and maybe the most important social network I’m a part of: Hacker News.
- rurp 3y agoMy God what a sleazy company this is. I just logged in for the first time in ages to delete my account and it immediately gave me an inescapable modal requiring personal information, including my name! I stopped using the site years ago once it became clear how corrupt they were about handling blatantly fake reviews, but this new name policy is a new low. Glassdoor can't be run out of business fast enough.
- blah-yeah 3y agoThanks! You're right. Just deleted all my glassdoor contributions, then deactivated my glassdoor account.
- gip 3y agoAs a senior manager I worked closely with a VP of engineering on the engineering culture - one of the expected outcome was the improvement of our Glassdoor company rating. But my VP (and probably the leadership) wanted to go fast. So my VP was in touch with someone at Glassdoor and had a way to 'tweak' or remove unpleasant reviews. I don't know the details but if there is definitely a way for companies to do that despite Glassdoor claiming that reviews can't be removed.
- freeAgent 3y agoThey can definitely manipulate the default (“recommended”) sort to bury bad reviews. Companies do that all the time. They can also reply to reviews. I’m not sure about control over visibility if a user chooses to sort chronologically, though.
- gip 3y agoI can confirm that at least 2 of the offending reviews simply disappeared after my VP talked to them.
- giantg2 3y agoWhen I signed up for Blind, I remember being a concerned that I had to use my work email to sign up. At the very least the employer can see that you signed up via the verification email.
- tomrod 3y agoWeird. I only see the option to deactivate an account, not delete or even close. Damn this terribly company and their terrible, terrible dark patterns.
- fHr 3y agoWhat the actual fuck, glasdoor just died for me. Tinker around with data to that degree is a nogo by all means.
- thraway3837 3y agoIt's very possible that the full name from the email to the person's Glassdoor account was not manually performed by a human. More than likely, their CRM software automatically tied their user-facing account with their support ticket email. Especially if the only unique identifier is based on email address. It's not hard to remove the name and location from the CRM, but because it would become a manual process they just don't want to have to deal with it. FWIW, this theory could be put to test by signing up an account with username.extrachars@gmail.com and then sending a support email from username.extrachars+1@gmail.com, not sure if they would reject the support ticket as "emails not matched".
- FrustratedMonky 3y agoShit, and I hate how all of these 'auto-login' prompts appear in Chrome, and if you accidentally click it, then boom, now your name is all over the place. Think this is how I ended up in GlassDoor to begin with.
- hedora 3y agoUBlock Origin -> My Filters, add this: accounts.google.com/gsi/iframe the google popups go away, but if you click on a "login with google" button it will still work. (I use that filter with Firefox. It wouldn't surprise me if Chrome's bundled spyware somehow breaks this.)
- cynicalsecurity 3y agoThank you, I deleted my account.
- jdowner 3y agoOut of curiosity, I had a look at my account on glassdoor and my name is "Rollo Tomasi". Seems about right :)
- SavageBeast 3y agoIf this is how they're going to play it, RIP Glassdoor. Seems like a MAJOR breach of trust to allow users to submit content and participate anonymously THEN start revealing their names! "If you are not willing to allow your name on your profile, you will again need to complete Data erasure once you are able to. However, we cannot remove this for you or make the changes you wish to see for your name." I guess we know the appropriate action to take here. This is an absolutely BONE HEADED decision with regards to the operation of Glassdoor but I wonder what was the impetus for this? It looks like they're trying to convert their anonymous, Reddit-like, users to First Class Named Users for the purpose trying to compete with Linkedin to me. I find the rationale here questionable and the execution plain nutty personally.
- throwaway892238 3y agoThey're not revealing anyone's names. Names are anonymous by default until you elect to share yours.
- plz-remove-card 3y agoThis is precisely why I never created a glassdoor account. It's exactly the kind of thing I feared would happen.
- playa1 3y agoI haven’t used Glassdoor for years. I just checked and my account didn’t have any personal information listed. My name and other fields in my profile were “*” I didn’t see a way to delete my data but I don’t think they had much in the first place. I did use the “deactivate account” option.
- basisword 3y agoGood luck 'deactivating' your account. Somehow I was registered via Facebook. I was able to sign in via Facebook. Then they force you to give your company, title, location, and name before they allow you access to anything, including settings (scum). Then when you click deactivate you have to sign in again, and the Facebook login just redirects to a blank page and deactivation doesn't occur.
- kdomanski 3y agoWow, in the EU one email to the local data protection office would set them on fire for this.
- mock-possum 3y ago> Glassdoor now requires your real name and will add it to older accounts without your consent if they learn it, and your only option is to delete your account. weird. I just logged in, and I can't confirm that this is happening. all of my reviews are still properly anonymous. my account knows my name and my email address, of course, but it does not appear anywhere on the site where I don't expect it to. > So all users will now receive a Fishbowl account once they login to Glassdoor I'm not real sure what this means - as far as I can tell, 'bowls' are just the equivalent of fb groups, and while there are a few automatically added to your account initially, you can just leave them, and proceed with an empty list of 'bowls' you follow (or whatever the terminology is) what am I missing here?
- mistrial9 3y ago> my account knows my name and my email address you just said it yourself -- consider that the data that is collected and sold is not necessarily on the pages you see
- crotchfire 3y agoCaptcha Check Hello, you've been (semi-randomly) selected to take a CAPTCHA to validate your requests. Please complete it below and hit the button! Press to validate No thanks.
- tamimio 3y agoAll of these shenanigans occur because the laws favor employers over employees; there’s no protection, or at least, proper freedom of speech. But what can you expect when employees can be fired on the spot for asking to unionize?
- smrtinsert 3y agoWow, never using that service again, thanks for the heads up.
- flemhans 3y agoDanish payment app MobilePay also just revealed the full name of all its users, linked to the government database. You can enter any phone number and the full name of the user will be shown. Previously a user-selectable name, now it's coming from the government database of citizens.
- throwaway892238 3y agoIt's both funny and sad when people find out how the real world works and get all indignant. "How dare they do a thing they're legally allowed to do! Rabble rabble rabble!!!" Glassdoor is trying to make money off you, like every other free site on the internet, and they will do whatever the law allows them to. Welcome to planet Earth. Meanwhile, all the commenters in here are overreacting as usual, clearly not having read any of the terms of the website, like the part where it says your name is not disclosed until you explicitly elect to share it. But hey let's not let facts stop us from freaking out.
- cptskippy 3y agoWhile you're at it, don't forget to freeze your Work Number. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_Number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_Number
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- pbnjeh 3y agoI guess all I can do is upvote this, and hope the sunshine helps lead to the demise of those who turn the public goodwill they've solicited -- here, transparency into employment practices -- against the very folks they've gotten to exercise it. I guess we all know now not to work for Glassdoor... (Including the unpaid work that built their product in the first place.)
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- krick 3y agoI'm not wildly surprised, and am kinda getting the impression, that companies can fuck individuals any way they want, but… this couldn't be legal, right? I mean, especially the "that would be forthcoming" part.
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