Re:Glassdoor has been acquired by Recruit Holdings for $1.2B
by xx_alpha_xx on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @07:32AM
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Yes, they offer their dataset to companies as a paid service.
Source: my prior company paid for their entire data set and I personally used in a data science project.
Re:Glassdoor has been acquired by Recruit Holdings for $1.2B
by vthallam on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @08:06AM
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> my prior company paid for their entire data se
Are you aware of how expensive that kind of data set would be? Also curious on what any company would do with that kind of data. Predict which company employees are the happiest?
Re:Glassdoor has been acquired by Recruit Holdings for $1.2B
by cleansy on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @05:58AM
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The most valuable insights from this would be to get trickled insider information. Once in a while a comment gives you an insight that is not currently available elsewhere. Like unannounced layoff rounds. Statements about employee fluctuation? Reading reviews by software engineers gives you and insight about how this co is executing its IT projects.. etc.
Re:Glassdoor has been acquired by Recruit Holdings for $1.2B
by monkeydust on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @05:44AM
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Would not surprise me given the current obsession by HF to find value in alternative data. Would be interested if you find details.
I could swear when I dug into this I found that they had actually licensed out their dataset to a couple of hedge funds already that were doing exactly that (and paying for the privilege).
I can’t find this anymore, so maybe I am imagining things? At any rate this FT article implies there were people out there likely doing this though unclear if they paid Glassdoor for the privilege: https://www.ft.com/content/d86ad460-8802-11e7-bf50-e1c239b45...