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Hey everyone! ๐ I need your input on something important. I recently got a job offer that sounds amazing on paper, but after reading some Glassdoor reviews, I’m a little concerned. How seriously do you take Glassdoor reviews when considering a job opportunity?
Here’s the situation:
– The company has had massive layoffs and salary cuts in the past
– About 10 out of 80 reviews mentioned these issues
– The remaining reviews were mainly positive
I’m torn between trusting the positive reviews or being cautious about the negative ones. Cutting salaries doesn’t sit right with me, but could it be an isolated incident?
So, what do you think I should do? Should I pay attention to the Glassdoor reviews, or should I take them with a grain of salt? Have you ever been in a similar situation?
Possible solution:
– Look for patterns in the reviews (are the negative comments consistent?)
– Consider reaching out to current or former employees for more insights
– Trust your gut feeling and intuition when making a decision
Let’s discuss! ๐ค #CareerAdvice #JobSearch #ProfessionalDevelopment
I just walked off a job that has a 3.4 rating. There were some positive ones for sure, but the lower ones reflected EXACTLY why I left. After meeting people there, I have a feeling a lot of those are incentivized and from current staff and managers trying to up the rating. It’s hard to say
I feel like the negative reviews fairly reflect companies I’ve worked for. Many of the positive ones sound fake. Most people don’t really take the time to leave reviews for average or even good work places, but will for bad experienceย
I have looked up company I work for on Glassdoor and I laughed hard seeing all those fake positive reviews. Literally could tell they are fake from mile away. Normal reviews mention exactly how bad company is, like how they have mandatory overtime every week, how pay raises are low if you even get any, how daily targets are too high and constantly moved up even higher, how shitty and stupid people in management are, how HR is biggest bitch you will ever meet, etc and then you have complete opposite recent reviews of how amazing this company is and every aspect is rated at 5 stars. Best pay increases around, best opportunities for promotions, how awesome management is and how HR is there for workers and not for company.
The last company I worked for (which ended up laying me and a bunch of other people off, gutting the tech department, and then outsourced all of the customer support overseas) is full of extremely negative reviews. Before I left, HR was literally begging people to leave positive ones.
So yeah, take the super positive ones with a grain of salt – and while the negative ones don’t fully capture what may be going on, they certainly have a grain of truth…
You have to read a lot of them to decipher the general vibe. Obviously there’s going to be fake positive reviews or just people kissing ass, but there’s also negative reviews that are done by somebody pissed off by the company when they were a bad employee.
I gave a review for my 2nd to last job. I tried to keep it somewhat positive but I did have some negative gripes about the company (they gave me 2 additional full time jobs with no pay raise and treated me worse). The problem for me was that outside of 2 people, I got along swimmingly with everybody else. Unfortunately those two people were my boss and my supervisor. But even for my boss I greatly respected her intelligence and business acumen (I learned a lot from her), but as a leader she was the drizzling sh*ts and too often she was completely unprofessional. But if I was the company, I would never fire her or demote her because she was invaluable to the company. She just needed to step away from being a boss or it would have been nice if somebody higher up just had a heart-to-heart with her and told her that you shouldn’t talk to people that way. The way she talked to people screwed her over badly in the end and all of that hard work she did to get to be on the cusp of her dream job as COO…was all for not because she talked to the wrong person the wrong way just one too many times.
So it was hard for me to give a totally bad review and not give away my identity and it wasn’t all bad working for the company. I just didn’t appreciate them abusing their leverage with me to make me work 2 more jobs for no pay raise and getting drastically treated worse for it (if I said that, it would have given away my identity).
Another former employer I wrote a scathing review. I didn’t care. As far as I’m concerned they can go piss up a rope.
I take them with a grain of salt. I use Glassdoor to look at the benefits page personally. Typically people write more negative reviews than positive reviews. (Not just about employment) as people are more apt to call out what they feel is an injustice and when they are happy tend to be more quiet. (I am guilty of this myself). I will read them but with knowledge that I am only hearing a small percentage and they typically are more negative.
Itโs a lot like Yelp for restaurants. If one negative person, complaining about everything gives 1 star you can take it with a grain of salt. If 5+ people mention the same specific problem, it would be wise to heed that as a warning
I occasionally will go back to the page of my old company to check up on the entries. For the most part, the negatives are correct (but exaggerated) while the positives are either fake or planted by HR. Its also the case that I have moved within my industry, and quite frankly the same problems exist across the board. So pretty much every company I checked have very similar reviews.
The concern is people talking about layoffs – thats not something disgruntled people talk about unless real. If there is a way to reach out through linkedin to somebody to verify, might be worth it. Or – if you have nothing to lose – just call up the person that interviewed you and ask them bluntly about the postings. You’ll get some insight into the company and your new boss that way.
Of course, they may withdraw the offer, but thats a lesser problem.
Not very. I assume all the highly rated ones are from HR employees trying to fluff the real score
I made the mistake of thinking the negative reviews at one place were a few mismatched folks who clashed personality-wise. They talked about the CEO being a micromanager and I wrongly assumed my low level position would never interact with her. So I took the job. Wrong I was! I now take negative reviews seriously, especially if multiple reviews touch on similar issues. Sure, some people are just looking for revenge, but usually 90% of the time, I’ve found the negative reviews to be accurate.
I donโt care about them at all.
I did not pay attention to Glassdoor reviews TWICE and paid for it both times. Will not be making the same mistake again.
I once worked for the worst company in the world (hyperbole, but they were absolutely evil). Have a 3.5 rating on glassdoor. Hundreds of good reviews pushed the rating up.
Having worked there for 8 years, I knew all the positive reviews are bullshit. As other commentators said, people usually don’t leave a good review, because it doesn’t cross their minds.
I’ve always figured that the really bad ones arn’t quite that bad as stated, unless their oft repeated examples. The ones that contain specifics and/or describes what needs to be fixed are true. The “Walks on water” are truly fake.
I’ll give my anecdote. I have left two reviews on Glassdoor. Both were negative, and both were true.
Find out what that company calls their HR people, and reject any glassdoor reviews that indicate they are HR or support staff in any way. Its amazing how the people doing the hiring think the job is great and has excellent benefits, while the cashier and low level workers say it sucks
If this is a publicly traded company, there will be a public record of the layoffs being announced, generally to shareholders.
Often layoffs occur specifically to please shareholders, in that the company is continually adjusting to be as profitable as possible. It’s awful from any realistic human perspective of course, but that’s not the primary concern.
Very seriously
Donโt.