| I’ve thought about this as I would like to know what GlassDoor is supposed to know. I think the problem is that there’s no good incentive for people to give real info. The best reviews aren’t written because people are busy doing good work at good companies. Jobs aren’t common enough to stroke egos like restaurant and travel reviews (that also have review problems). So busy people don’t write many. Company PR isn’t that valuable other than knowing they have money to spend on PR. And people are angry for just and unjust reasons. Compound that job titles aren’t standardized, even within companies so a pay difference may be due to different jobs, different performance, or just fabrication. I get the info I wish Glassdoor had through networking. It’s hard and requires much labor but is accurate enough to recruit people, and, I expect, if I wanted to apply to a company. The other thing I tried years ago was an app called blackball back when LinkedIn first opened their api, and has since blocked. Blackball let me and all my contacts enter the names of people we worked with who we hated and would never work with for any reason. The app would then let me search whether any of my contacts had blackballed a person and return something like “John Smith was blackballed by 0 1st degree and 5 2nd degree” and did it anonymously to the people querying and queried. The app was pretty handy, but didn’t work without the LinkedIn api and I think was probably illegal. But it saved the frequent “hey old coworker, LinkedIn says you worked with John Smith, would you ever want to hire them again” checks that can be tricky because I only give a real answer to people I really trust. Blackball was simpler than recommending because it’s a bit more binary. Tl;dr; it’s hard to get good info in this space |