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Company Reviews From Employees & Candidates
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Welcome to project TRUTHFUL REVIEWS- this thread is to rate your current or past employer and companies based on candidate experience HERE!
We really want to help job seekers right now in this time of strife target good companies and not waste time with bad ones. Due to a clear unmet need from sites like Glassdoor and Indeed (they do not allow truthful reviews from Employees nor Candidates interviewing and Glassdoor clearly does alter and omit bad reviews), I'd like to start a subreddit to allow people to honestly review companies, for good and bad and everything between here.
I'm not sure yet how to organize this as I'm not that familiar yet with Reddit as a poster. We've been doing about a year of talking to employees and candidates as well as our own job search experiences. Any tips welcome as this is for EVERYONE to benefit from.
If you would like to participate in this project--and we sure hope you will--for the greater good! suggesting either (1- If your username is identifiable to you, create another reddit account that doesn't have personal identifiers or (2- if you'd like as we have done for a few of the reviews already under this thread so far, you are welcome to send your review via chat or DM and we will post it on your behalf if that's easiest for you. *If choosing option 2, just Include: Company name, if you're reviewing as a current or former employee or job seeker, and your overall thoughts. If your job title would identify you easily to the company (ex CEO), I would not recommend including that however if it's vague enough such as Customer Service Rep, that should be anonymous enough in most cases.
See below for uniform structure of things to include:
-Company Name-Poster's relationship (Current or Former Employee OR Candidate that applied or Interviewed)
-Document thoughts on your experiences with them including how recruiting is, onboarding, job experience, culture, pay, benefits and the current health of the business.
Note - If you want to share department or job title, just be cognizant to maintain your anonymity, so do not post anything personally identifiable to you, if you wish to maintain this.
We truly hope this project to help all jobseekers achieves its intended goal.
Top Comment: Company: iA American *Positive Candidate Experience, posting on behalf of candidate for anonymity Candidate, applied for US based job. Screened and went through one round of interviews with 2 hiring mangers (panel). I believe the managers were in Canada and the Recruiter was in the US. Outcome: Although I wasn't ultimately offered the job, the experience with this company was stellar as every interaction was professional and the recruiter did the type of job I'd do in being on top of communication, at every step of the game. They proactively offered me feedback which fell to the other candidate they chose had experience with a specific software they were migrating to. I would definitely keep them on my target list if I were looking for a new job and as of 2023 would highly recommend them as a candidate.
What's a good website or app for employees to review the company they work for?
Main Post: What's a good website or app for employees to review the company they work for?
Top Comment: Glassdoor. The company can still remove certain reviews though
Sheffield Foundation Job Reviews
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Looking for people who have done the following jobs in Sheffield and how they found it
F1 - Neurology, urology at RHH or geriatrics at NGH
F2 - Endo + DM, acute internal medicine, ITU at NGH
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ITU at NGH (actually it’s HDU but hey ho) is a fairly good job with a pretty crap rota. In hours is 8-6 and usually pretty chill with 2 consultants on the floor and teaching etc regularly. Out of hours it’s you and an ACCP with seniors readily available on ITU if you need them. The ACCPs are variable. Some are great, really helpful and approachable. Others are difficult and have huge chips on their shoulders about doctors. It’s a job with a steep learning curve but I enjoyed it overall. Currently HDU is taking level 2 and 3 patients because all the covid is going to ITU so it can be a bit terrifying overnight when you’re managing intubated patients, but the nurses are great and seniors are around if you need so I never felt unsupported.
Recruitment Agency (Job) Reviews
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Top Comment: Cunts at Perth Max Employment kept cancelling my interviews AFTER I fucking waited for the phone call for an hour. No fucking decency to call and cancel, just leave me waiting for an hour, then send a cancel through mygov. Then the next day refuckingschedule it for the next week. 5 times in a fucking row. Shit like that get my centrelink cut off if I did it, but do these cunts lose their government contract? Mutual Obligation my fat hairy ass. Nothing mutual about it. Cunts.
Employer with BAD reviews, risk it or leave it?
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Hi there,
I have been looking for a new job for quite some time, I have interviewed for this company and went very well, I spoke with the owner too and told me that he knows that employees need to be trusted and he wants to build a team of professionals, that he is against micromanagement, also he told me that he will review the salary once a year and if I had any issue, money related too, he is happy to chat about it, etc. Also told me that they work at milestones, so I am free to set my own schedule as long as the work is delivered on time.
I then quickly accepted the offer as both the owner (during the 2nd interview) and the hiring manager (1st interview) were very polite and professional, and the job also alight with my career goals, they asked for references and I provided them and I am now waiting for my contract before giving my formal notice to my current company.
Curious I went online to check out the company reviews, and I saw a very low review rating, that the owner fires people randomly, and there is bullying and micromanagement. That the owner does not trust the employees and wants to control everything. All the negative reviews say the same thing; the last one is from around February 2023, it seems they also changed their name as under the previous name there were even more bad reviews from ex-employees, which I reached out to on LinkedIn, but none of them replied yet.
I have got a secure job at the moment, and even though I am looking for a change (here I am very underpaid and the job is not aligned with my career goals), I am not sure now. The interview went well, and I had positive feelings, but after reading the reviews I am now worried.
They are both remote roles, and I can set my schedule in both roles.
Would you advise me to keep both jobs for 1/2 month and see how it goes? My current contract allows me to have another job, but it'd be so full of work for these months though, but if I see bad behaviours I could resign very quickly as I would have my current job as back-up; or to just tell them that due to personal reason I can’t start working there and keep searching?
UPDATE FOR ALL CURIOUS ONES.
I did decline their offer and got a better paid offer from a better company after 2 months. I now gain more money and stress less. Thanks everyone for your inputs.
The person that got my position left after 2 months and left a bad review on Glassdoor.
Top Comment: Listen to the reviews. I didn't and it was one of the worst experiences I ever had. The woman I worked for was a monster.
Friendly reminder: Don’t trust Glassdoor. I worked for this horrible, awful, toxic, abusive company and all of my negative, yet accurate, reviews were auto-rejected. Yet this, THIS, is okay.
Main Post: Friendly reminder: Don’t trust Glassdoor. I worked for this horrible, awful, toxic, abusive company and all of my negative, yet accurate, reviews were auto-rejected. Yet this, THIS, is okay.
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When using Glassdoor, look for posts like these. If there are a lot of new employees posting positive reviews it is a great sign that the company knows they’re getting bad reviews on Glassdoor and they’re trying to hide it. Look at the former employee reviews and find trends. I find it is a great way to ask questions about company culture by identifying trends with unhappy former employees and asking the interviewers about these issues and how they’ve addressed them. You can learn about the company’s response (or lack thereof) as an indicator of what it might really be like within the company.
How much stock do you put into company reviews when looking for a job?
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As the title says. I’m job searching and usually check out the reviews on the company before any real consideration. Do y’all take those reviews seriously? Or do you think that it’s mostly disgruntled former employees that leave reviews?
Top Comment: I always check glass door and don’t bother with companies below 3.5 tbh
Anyone interested in a legit company-review sub?
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It’s fairly obvious that Glassdoor has implemented blackmail-style tactics and can no longer be trusted. They bully non-subscribing companies and dangle negative reviews over their heads until they agree to subscribe (think Yelp, but for companies instead of restaurants). Companies then pay a pretty penny to make sure that negative reviews get buried or removed completely. Therefore, Glassdoor can no longer be trusted as a reliable source of truth for job seekers. They are loyal to whoever writes their checks, not job seekers using the platform for free. Any sense of being “transparent” and “for the job seekers” is total bullshit that has become increasingly more obvious throughout Covid and the fall of the economy.
With many of us trapped in toxic environments and looking to make a change, trust-worthy reviews are of the upmost importance so that we can ensure we aren’t going from the frying pan and into the fire. And, maybe this already exists, please let me know if that’s the case, but I was thinking of making a sub where we can write Glassdoor-esque reviews without fear of them being unethically filtered. Thoughts?
Edit: I created it and am currently working on building it out r/CementFloor
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Don't trust Indeed reviews. They are heavily curated. Truthful reviews are deleted etc.
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I had a horrible experience with an employer.
No matter what I say the review gets rejected. Indeed is a horrible platform. They really don't want people to speak about their experiences. Certain employers have an incredibly toxic environment or practice deception but magically your reviews will get deleted for ''violating community guidelines''.
What they really mean is that community guidelines include protecting companies from their own abuses. Don't trust this website. They protect toxicity of employers. They're not there for employees to truly warn others about what to expect. Indeed is a dishonest platform. Same for Glassdoor actually. Most relevant and MUCH needed reviews are deleted. You will never see them appear on the website.
I had an employer bait and switch me for a position. Then ghost me afterwards. Shouldn't I be able to leave a review about my experience? They deleted my review twice.
Top Comment: Oh absolutely. I have seen so many obvious fake reviews of my last employer, it's laughable to anyone who actually has worked there from about 2015 until now. Surprisingly, one of my old reviews in which I called them a toxic workplace two years ago is actually still up.
What are some alternatives to Glassdoor for company reviews?
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With recent news that Glassdoor going to shit with their aggressive removal of negative reviews, I'm wondering if there are any good alternatives available. They seem to be shifting toward maintaining company brands as a means of making money.
If you're interviewing with a company, where do you look for info about them - specifically about culture, management issues, WLB, etc.?
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I find messaging ex-employees to be useful.
People who are currently employed are less likely to give honest feedback than someone who isn't there.
For example, if I was going to apply to Google in a specific area I'd search for folks who used to work there and ask them questions.
I've had decent luck with this approach before as most people like non-spam linkedin messages. You just might not get responses.