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I mean sure, but take glassdoor with a huge grain of salt, people make up crap to post on there all the time.

After a certain number of reviews, Glassdoor becomes a more honest reflection of a company's actual state than anything else.

It's certainly more truthful that marketing fluff pieces like this.

Absolutely. It's a great resource, I have used it regularly since it launched.

People still make up fiction and post it on there all. the. time. Keep that in mind.

Its like a Cohen Brothers Film: Lots of stuff happens that is really entertaining, but at the end of the movie you have learned nothing.

I agree as well. I've noticed many problems in my current organization but it is really telling when people are complaining about the same things I'm seeing. The problems really exist, people have fought to fix them and failed, management either doesn't care or want to fix them.

Yes there will always be people that were fired writing things up as well as others just lying (competitors). Like you said, at some point when there is enough smoke you should expect a fire.

The company I work for is around 100 people, but the few postings I have seen that are negative and descriptive are on the mark. Maybe Tolstoy was right about unhappy companies as well.

Curious to what your are referring to, related to Tolstoy (or Tolstoj as I like to write his name). Can you elaborate? Thanks!

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

It's called The Anna Karenina principle. Tolstoy posited an analogy in his novel Anna Karenina that "happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Interestingly, Peter Thiel starts his book Zero To One with a reference to the Anna Karenina principle by showing a corollary in business: "All happy companies are different, all unhappy companies are alike."

Not OP, but this might be the reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina_principle

I've also worked places that were pretty effective at getting glassdoor to take down the negative reviews. They could always find some sort of explanation for how the negative ones didn't meet the terms and conditions and glassdoor seemed relatively ok with taking them down.

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