Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees

Re:Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and ... by mushufasa on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @04:27PM (#18972669)

I'm also interested in this question. Here's a half-idea for discussion purposes:

Review sites must be free for readers and reviewers. So, the revenue either has to somehow come from

1. end-users indirectly (like how HackerNews helps YCombinator attract quality investments)

2. a group that has users' best interests at heart, as well as a financial incentive (google's personalization helps readers find relevant searches as well as helping advertisers target... maybe not a 100% perfect example but you get the idea)

3. a diverse array of paying customers such that no one interest overpowers the others.

Any ideas in Glassdoor's context?

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Re:Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and ... by chii on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @04:48PM (#18972897)

Why must reviews be free?

Tech magazines used to do reviews (of gadgets), and they ain't free to read? at least, not the trustworthy ones.

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Re:Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and ... by mushufasa on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @06:13PM (#18973702)

Are you talking about print publications?

As far as I know Consumer Reports is the only one that does this still. Consumer Reports is a nonprofit, and they're run like a media company. Their staff research and write the content, pretty well!

I don't think this would work for user-generated content -- who would pay to be able to write an anonymous review?

I do think user-generated content is necessary for job reviews; you can't buy the experience of being an employee off the shelf and subject it to objective tests, like with technology products.

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Re:Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and ... by chii on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @09:10PM (#18975051)

It doesn't have to be paid to write - but you have to pay to view the reviews just like you'd have to pay to read a magazine.

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Re:Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and ... by mushufasa on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @10:13PM (#18975328)

How would the authors know they could write a review if they can't view the site?

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Re:Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and ... by chii on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @04:47AM (#18976968)

Isn't that trivially solvable by telling them on the landing page?!

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