Anonymous, candid reviews made Glassdoor a powerful place to research potential employers. A policy shift requiring users to privately verify their real names is raising privacy concerns.
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Give em your boss’ name.
Glassdoor always seemed like a trap to me. What better way to find (potentially) disloyal people to add to the in-house blacklist or layoff file than to set up a site where you can collect negative reviews of workplaces and sufficient data that identities could be ascertained?
I stopped using glassdoor after they told me I had to do review of my company before I could look at any other company’s reviews. Except I already had, when I joined. But that was longer than 1 year prior so I guess GD just assumed I had either quit or decided I hated the place? And the thing is, it’s a small company. A single person reviewing it multiple times is going to skew the reviews, and when I thought about that then now there’s no way I’m gonna trust any of the company reviews on there.
Don’t you already need your company email for verification? Mapping company email to real name is obviously trivial for your employer…
I’ve already changed mine to Ivan E. Wreckshun
Euge Johnson
Ansell Granger
It’s our duty to give them the shittiest of fake names
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My name is John Doe, it’s totally my real name.
No way! I’ve met 6 other John Does lately!
Of course, my name is Jonathan Jacobian Djengle, I was adopted by the Heimerschmidt family. You can call me John.
Wow, your name is my name too.
No way, that’s my name too!
Wait, do you have an issue when you go out where people always shout?
Nice to meet ya, John. My name is Nunya Bidnez.
If i… Wanna rate work sites…as less than stars of five…
Its nunaya bidness!!
And if she wanna help the weak and tell it like it be then
Its nunaya bidness
-salt and peppa
My name is totally the ex-manager everyone hated before he left.
Which will be followed by letting companies pay to see who to retaliate against.
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I’ve never used Glassdoor but I know people who have. Seems like a great way for them to destroy their own business.
Even if I were inclined to do so, I would absolutely NOT do so if I had to provide my real name. They will be the one company to never ever get their user db hacked/leaked, right? I can trust all current and future executives there to safeguard that info, right?
I can’t see how anyone with legit negative things to say against a current employer is going to feel comfortable using the service going forward. When enshittification bites back!
It’s 100% calculated. The controllers of glassdoor decided to kill the site, likely persuaded with money, coercion or both.
Exit strategy? “I got what I wanted out of it, so I may as well take the rubber mask off.”
Perhaps not to destroy it but to make a new business model, selling the ability to get names for lawsuit purposes, and rather than users are going after a profitable extortion racket like yelp did where in exchange for a one time (or even monthly) fee will protect your business from bad reviews.
That’s my guess, i couldn’t read the article (paywall)
The problem is that the names weren’t provided by users to glassdoor. If glassdoor stumbles across someone’s real name then they have automatically attached it to the user profile. They’re doxxing their users so now people have to worry if they ever used the service.
No disagreement here…