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That was the same hypothesis on Glassdoor, but to me it seems it works well.

gk1 12y ago
I know of at least one company that games Glassdoor by posting dozens of fake positive reviews for themselves. (I'm not aware of any options to report this to Glassdoor.) From their FAQs: > Since we're unable to fully verify the identity of an anonymous user, we require each user to certify their employee relationship to the company when they post any content. We also require all users to validate their email address before their posts are made available to the community. This verification process allows us to put measures in place to identify suspicious users and/or posts. And all of these, combined with active community moderation and our commitment to review every post, allow us to have confidence in our information. What a joke. By "certify their employee relationship..." I'm guessing they mean tick some checkbox, because I don't recall having to prove anything when I've posted reviews. And verifying email addresses? Gee, nobody is going to get around that...
- Hasu 12y ago
  I know of a company that does this, too. It IS possible to report individual reviews, and I did just that with several obviously-faked reviews from management. Glassdoor responded that management and CEOs have a right to post reviews, too. That's great, and I totally agree, but I reported multiple reviews that didn't claim to be management at all, they claimed to be developers and designers who loved their jobs. Meanwhile, I had to rewrite a negative review because someone claimed that I was revealing trade secrets. Unless treating your employees like shit is a trade secret, I did no such thing. In my experience, Glassdoor reviews aren't worth much. They can be taken down for inane reasons, but won't be for legitimate problems.
- aledalgrande 12y ago
  What about verifying LinkedIn profile? I'm sure there is no silver bullet, there will always be exceptions. The community around it has to be good for a tool like this to be valuable.
- yuhong 12y ago
  My feeling is that they should allow both anonymous and non-anonymous reviews, and this should be standard practice for most sites.

gk1 12y ago

I know of at least one company that games Glassdoor by posting dozens of fake positive reviews for themselves. (I'm not aware of any options to report this to Glassdoor.) From their FAQs: > Since we're unable to fully verify the identity of an anonymous user, we require each user to certify their employee relationship to the company when they post any content. We also require all users to validate their email address before their posts are made available to the community. This verification process allows us to put measures in place to identify suspicious users and/or posts. And all of these, combined with active community moderation and our commitment to review every post, allow us to have confidence in our information. What a joke. By "certify their employee relationship..." I'm guessing they mean tick some checkbox, because I don't recall having to prove anything when I've posted reviews. And verifying email addresses? Gee, nobody is going to get around that...

Hasu 12y ago
I know of a company that does this, too. It IS possible to report individual reviews, and I did just that with several obviously-faked reviews from management. Glassdoor responded that management and CEOs have a right to post reviews, too. That's great, and I totally agree, but I reported multiple reviews that didn't claim to be management at all, they claimed to be developers and designers who loved their jobs. Meanwhile, I had to rewrite a negative review because someone claimed that I was revealing trade secrets. Unless treating your employees like shit is a trade secret, I did no such thing. In my experience, Glassdoor reviews aren't worth much. They can be taken down for inane reasons, but won't be for legitimate problems.
aledalgrande 12y ago
What about verifying LinkedIn profile? I'm sure there is no silver bullet, there will always be exceptions. The community around it has to be good for a tool like this to be valuable.
yuhong 12y ago
My feeling is that they should allow both anonymous and non-anonymous reviews, and this should be standard practice for most sites.