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Surprised no one has mention it yet, but Recruit Holdings is the parent company of Indeed.

So the combination of Indeed's set of basically every job listing and Glassdoor's set of reviews seems like a strong synergy to fight against Google and Facebook's move into the space.

Indeed/Recruit has made several big acquisitions in the past year including SimplyHired and Workopolis.

Note: I founded/work at a startup in the same space.

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Recruit also has brought Indeed, originally an American company, strongly to its home turf, Japan. At face value it "competes" with the older job hunting services owned by Recruit, but they are differentiating the brands while they surely benefit from the synergy.

> Surprised no one has mention it yet, but Recruit Holdings is the parent company of Indeed.

As of right now (2018-05-09T14:33Z), the article reads ‘Recruit Holdings, a large Japanese human resources company that owns other job sites like Indeed’ …

> 2018-05-09T14:33Z

You seem to be missing a value for Z

No, that's valid. "Z is the zone designator for the zero UTC offset."

Placing a timezone designator after Z is invalid under ISO 8601 [0]; you are thinking of any of the plus, minus or hyphen symbols, which do require values.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Time_zone_designators

The article didn't mention it earlier or I missed it and no one in the thread had brought it up.

Recruit has been on a spending spree. As what happened with SimplyHired and Workopolis, I'm guessing the data in GlassDoor will be integrated into Indeed's own platform and then GlassDoor will become another frontend for https://www.indeed.com/companies

I didn't knew Recruit is the parent company of Indeed, it makes more sense now. I see your start up is Zippia. It looks to me that it's a good looking indeed :) and seems you are doing well, Congrats on that.

I did a small start up in this space sometime back and super interested in everything recruiting, would you mind if I reach out with few questions?

Sure it's ckolmar at zippia dot com

Is this not a conflict of interest? I always assumed the Glassdoor (like the BBB) will remove unfavorable reviews for a price. Now that I know that they are part of an org that also does recruiting I know it. Their review quality was not much better than Amazon's and now it will get worse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recruit_scandal

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