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Re:Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and ... by seanwilson on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @02:53PM (#18971773)
> It's remarkable how often companies expect their employees to be completely loyal and do a bunch of work for free, while also treating their employees like free labor and cutting them loose at the smallest disagreement.

There's lots of other imbalances as well like how you have to tolerate being mistreated so you can get a good reference, and you have to actively avoid mentioning negative reasons you left a company in job interviews to avoid being labelled a trouble maker.

Glassdoor was suppose to help with the above I guess.

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Re:Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and ... by mark-r on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @04:18PM (#18972585)
How does Glassdoor make money? If they're not taking money from the people that use the site, they'll never be an unbiased source of information.
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Re:Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and ... by VRay on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @03:58PM (#18982872)
FWIW, as a driver/firmware engineer, I haven't ever needed a good reference from my former employer

I've just been giving out former coworkers' contact info instead, and usually they don't even get called. I'm guessing they call the former employer just to verify I actually worked there, but that's it

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